Meditation Quotes - Page 26

• So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Force Fields, Arousal

  Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

  Gary Zukav

  Lectures, Physics, Century

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• We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.

  Timothy Keller

  Two, Catholic, Scripture

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• I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began his ministry by proclaiming that this holy kingdom was within us and among us.

  Morton T. Kelsey

  Jesus, Mean, Doors

  Morton T. Kelsey (1997). “The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century”, p.11, Paulist Press

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• I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For some people, it's running. For some people, it's affirmations. For me, it's photographs and drawings, and affirmations, and statues, and crystals. I fill my writing space and I fill my home with symbols of what I think of as higher energy.

  Wayne Dyer

  Running, Yoga, Home

  "The Power of Intention with Dr. Wayne Dyer". Interview with Tim Miejan, www.edgemagazine.net. September 1, 2004.

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• The most common way people could do time-travel would be a form of meditation in which you don't get caught up in your thoughts and don't make patterns of logical consequences follow as a result of your thinking process. It's very hard for most of us to do that if we think about it. But if you start to watch the process by which things come into being, and you begin to witness from the point of view of watching the words form, then you're beginning to move into the non-temporal mindset, or that which is free of time.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Moving, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.

  Moby

  Thinking, Practice, Down And

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it’s the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore.

  Moby

  Spiritual, Dog, Sex

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really big part of my life. But it's sometimes hard to talk about. There are so many people in the world who don't live in Southern California and don't spend their time meditating.

  Moby

  Reading, Practice, California

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

  Moby

  Spiritual, Real, Nice

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.

  Moby

  Spiritual, Emotional, Meditation Practice

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• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Distance, Exercise

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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• The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

  David Lynch

  Lying, True Happiness, Reason

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• I visualise what I want through meditation. The process of meditating is a great way of making sure I have my priorities sorted. It's not about money - I focus on my career and the kind of film projects I want to do. Film-making is a passion for me, and my mantra is that you should do what you love, and the money will follow.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Passion, Careers, Priorities

  "Shilpa Shetty: 'My spiritual approach to finance'". Interview with Mark Anstead, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 14, 2008.

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• The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Real, Meditation Practice, Moments

  "Jon Kabat-Zinn: ‘The Real Meditation Practice Is How We Live Our Lives From Moment To Moment’" By Amanda L. Chan, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 25, 2014.

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• Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

  Virginia Postrel

  Coffee, Mean, Cutting

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• Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Miserable, Pleasant

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• Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Mind

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• The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Garden, Views

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.255

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• For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of modern life; and then again fiction, at least as I write it and think of it, is a kind of religious meditation in which language is the final enlightenment, and it is language, in its beauty, its ambiguity and its shifting textures, that drives my work.

  Don DeLillo

  Religious, Book, Writing

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• Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Silence, Speak

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• When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Expectations, Meditating, Happens

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• The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Heart, House, Ego

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• I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV!

  Helen Mirren

  Believe, Hard Work, Lazy

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