Meditation Quotes - Page 28

• Meditation has become a big part of my life these days. It's more about taking some moments for yourself to deep-breathe and focus your attention inward. This has really helped me because, as a perfectionist, I used to think that if I couldn't meditate in my idea of the perfect way, then it wouldn't work. I now meditate even if it is for three minutes while I'm sitting in the car. Every little bit helps to slow the system.

  Renee Marino

  Thinking, Ideas, Perfect

  "Renee Marino on the Art of Feeling Alive: Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've recently started practicing japa meditation. Meditating has always been a bit difficult for me, but japa asks you to focus on the space between things, and psychologically knowing I have anchor points frees me to do so.

  Allison McAtee

  Anchors, Knowing, Space

  "Actor Allison McAtee: The best in everyone, being a crybaby, and practicing japa meditation". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk about it by opening yourself to loved ones or a professional.

  Regina Taylor

  Prayer, Pain, Exercise

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• Speak what I have to be grateful for when I get up and when I lie down to sleep. Meditation and prayer. I pray that I can move through all with grace. I believe I can move through all and not only survive but thrive.

  Regina Taylor

  Prayer, Lying, Believe

  "Golden Globe and NAACP Image Award winner Regina Taylor: Living a creative life". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Walking my dogs twice a day provides me with an opening and closing of my day, and I've learned to use those walks for a walking meditation, which had never occurred to me until a friend gave me Wherever You Go, There You Are by Jon Kabat-Zinn years ago. It helped me take advantage of moments that already existed in my day and turn them into something more expansive.

  Patrick Fabian

  Dog, Years, Walking Meditation

  "Actor Patrick Fabian: The power of live music and being connected to emotions". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I wake up early enough every morning to have some alone time. I have an app called Simply Being that's made for meditation. I do that for 5-10 minutes in the morning. Somehow, it helps make the chaos of life have some sort of definition. Exercise, too, keeps me able to deal with everything and not get too stressed.

  Kevin Griffin

  Morning, Exercise, Up Early

  "Interview with Kevin Griffin of Better Than Ezra". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• If you just sit and spend time with yourself - you were born as you, just you, and that's how you're gonna die. Why do we spend the time in between trying to not be ourselves? That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself. Through all of it. It's like John Patrick Shanley said: "Where the terror is, you must go." Where the terror is, is where you must go.

  Daphne Zuniga

  Trying, Born, Said

  "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• I am running on fumes, so it's time to get centered again. I start with eating healthier and cutting out caffeine - at least cutting back on caffeine. I exercise and get outside to play. I reconnect with my spiritual practice, which is daily meditation and prayer. Most importantly, I reconnect with my family and friends. If all else fails, a few deep breaths.

  Amber Valletta

  Running, Spiritual, Prayer

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• I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine and never looked back. I practiced every day for ten to twelve hours a day - spiritual studies, meditation, pranayama, yoga postures, Ayurvedic studies, deep, deep, powerful cleansings and fasting.

  Brad Willis

  Spiritual, Powerful, Yoga

  "Warrior Pose: A Conversation with Bhava Ram". Interview with Zoë Kors, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.

  Naturi Naughton

  Silence, Family And Friends, Tvs

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I need to get better at learning how to stay calm. I'm a bit of a worrier and a stress cadet. Yoga helps me to some degree, but I haven't been able to figure out meditation yet. I have a feeling it would be very good for me, but unfortunately, I'm still holding it all in until I explode part of my life.

  Tricia Helfer

  Stress, Yoga, Feelings

  "Actress/Producer Tricia Helfer: On Yoga and Being a Stress Cadet". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Meditation is a great way to stay centered and I think inversions are great for aging. Specifically, I think the Kundalini yoga is really a life changer.

  Miranda Kerr

  Life Changing, Yoga, Thinking

  "Exclusive: Miranda Kerr Gets Her Shortest Haircut Ever". Interview with Alexandra Tunell, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 13, 2016.

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• I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background in college, but he had so much love. To be with him, there was nowhere else to be and nothing else to do. Nothing he taught, philosophy or meditation, are the things I went to India to look for, or was interested in, but he sort of jumped into my heart and then pulled, he pried it open.

  Surya Das

  Buddhist, Philosophy, Heart

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.

  Robert Thurman

  Long, Understanding, Important

  Source: theindiespiritualist.com

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• I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Challenges, Everyday, Important

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• In my 20s, my mom and I went and saw the bridges of Madison County, which are in Iowa, and I had seen that movie with Clint Eastwood and Meryl Streep. I've always done these Iowa road trips. I did this transcendental meditation course in Fairfield, Iowa. So I've known since my early 20s that someday I would buy a farm in Iowa.

  Lissie

  Mom, Iowa, Bridges

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Even if it's something so simple as filling myself up with uplifting meditation so it's easier to spread kindness and love by the time I walk out my door and enter the world. I get a kick out of making a strangers day.

  Aeriel Miranda

  Uplifting, Kindness, Simple

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• Initially, you have to live a period where you are developing your attitude. I would consider that a meditation: determining what you want to do. You have a period where you meditate and you get the strength.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Attitude, Want, Where You Are

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• A lot of people do their practice. They meditate on compassion. Then they yell at people afterwards. That is not quite working. One of the things I try to emphasize is contemplative meditation - bringing your thought and intention into meditation.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Compassion, Practice, People

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different traditions you are not totally familiar with - mixing this kind of meditation with that kind of practice or this kind of visualization with that kind of mantra. Then you really are concocting your own thing, and you have no idea what is going to happen.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Buddhist, Practice, Ideas

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• There is a tendency sometimes within the Shambhala community to make it just about meditating and, so, less about compassion. Shambhala is based upon compassion, but a lot of people come in and say, "I need to get more meditation. I need to do this for me, me, me." That's fine, but the view here is much more societal.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Compassion, Views, People

  "Earth Protector: An Interview with Sakyong Mipham (complete interview)". Interview with Ray Hemachandra, rayhemachandra.com. July 30, 2015.

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• Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold.

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Writing, Meditation Practice, I Have Learned

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• It is worth asking who decides what's an "obsession" and where it differs from meditation or the kind of deep dwelling on a subject we see in philosophy or the work of Robert Wilson, for instance?

  Laura Mullen

  Philosophy, Dwelling, Asking

  Source: therumpus.net

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• Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.

  Philippa Perry

  Brain, Connections, Attention

  Source: bigthink.com

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• Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

  Patanjali

  Dream, Heart, Giving

  Alice Bailey, Patanjali (2012). “The Light of the Soul: Paraphrase of the Yoga Sutras of Pantanjali”, p.21, Lucis Publishing Companies

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