Meditation Quotes - Page 20

• In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Emotional

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• The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Needs

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• The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such times, all things are possible: "to a mind that is 'still' the whole universe surrenders".

  Sheldon B. Kopp

  Long, Mind, Moments

  SHELDON B KOPP (1972). “IF YOU MEET THE BUDDHA ON THE ROAD KILL HIM THE PILGRIMAGE OF PSYCHOTHERAPY PATIENTS”

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• The man of meditation is the man who wastes no time, scatters no energy, misses no opportunity.

  Annie Besant

  Opportunity, Men, Missing

  Annie Besant (1918). “Thought Power, Its Control and Culture”

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• Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Thinking, Silence, Mind

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• The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.

  Sivananda

  Character, Heart, Self

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• We underestimate the value of patience. It is possible that people might sometimes interrupt our meditation sessions or Dharma study, but they can never take away our opportunity to train in inner virtues such as patience. It is this mental training, rather than outer virtuous activities, that is the essence of Dharma practice.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Opportunity, Essence, Practice

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• Meditation in action is endlessly more important than meditation in stillness.

  Hakuin Ekaku

  Important, Action, Stillness

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• In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.

  James R. Swartz

  Reality, Self, Views

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• Cats know everything there is to know about meditation.

  Veronique Vienne

  Cat, Knowledge And Power, Syrup

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• Meditation is listening the inner song. The song of Love, Peace and Light

  Amit Ray

  Love, Song, Peace

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• Meditation is re-discovering the inner Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God lies in our understandings and wisdom.

  Amit Ray

  Lying, Understanding, Kingdoms

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.17, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the land of silence.

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Freedom, Men, Land

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• Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.

  Kedar Joshi

  Technology, Computer, Spatial

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• I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.

  William Shakespeare

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Solitude

  William Shakespeare, Samuel Ayscough, Fenton John Anthony Hort, Nicholas Rowe (1790). “Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes”, p.68

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• There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt. And, of course, there are Christian monks and nuns who already use Buddhist methods in order to develop their devotion, compassion, and ability to forgive.

  Dalai Lama

  Christian, Buddhist, Buddhism

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Meditation is valuable for all of humanity because it involves looking inward. People don't have to be religious to look inside themselves more carefully. It is constructive and worthwhile to analyze our emotions, including compassion and our sense of caring, so that we can become more calm and happy.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Caring, Compassion

  Source: www.worldreligionnews.com

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• Technology is neutral. You can use [it] to become frenetic and to go out of your mind. But you can also use technology to relax and improve performance. Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

  Deepak Chopra

  Technology, Self, Relaxation

  "How A Video Game Could Make You A Better Man". Interview with John Scott Lewinski, www.askmen.com. November 22, 2011.

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• Meditation isn't just something we do to make ourselves more peaceful and to take some of the stress out of our lives. We do it because it's the only direct experience we can have of knowing God. Because God is that which is indivisible. Everything else in the universe, in the physical world, is divisible. Up and down, good and bad, right and wrong, male and female, and so on. But that which is indivisible in our physical experience is called silence. And when you get into silence, you're coming to know the indivisibleness of your life - and that's conscious contact.

  Wayne Dyer

  Stress, Knowing, Silence

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• If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.

  Laurie Anderson

  Confused, Fall, Sky

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Peace, Real, Lying

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• We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

  John Calvin

  Joy, Suffering, Sorrow

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• Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Ego, Dying

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• You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

  Rob Bell

  Prayer, Yoga, Practice

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• Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Yoga, Walking Meditation

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