Meditation Quotes - Page 35

• I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.

  Henri Nouwen

  Morning, Blessed, Six

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• I actually really do meditation and then I spend my morning reading.

  Jen Kirkman

  Morning, Reading

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Emotion, Constructive

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation; you could call that emotional balance.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Stress, Emotional, Balance

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• I'm actually big into meditation, transcendental meditation, and that really helps create not only a sense of balance, but all the other stuff this is gonna sound cliché... serenity and kind of a calm state of mind. And not that I'm like that all the time, but it helps me deal with life's ups and downs, coming from more of a centered place. Also it helps with creativity.

  Eva Mendes

  Creativity, Serenity, Mind

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• Meditation has been a big change for me in a super-positive way. I see the result and strength and clarity - even my creativity is different and more connected. It might be 10 minutes a day; it might be 20 minutes a day. But every day in this crazy world, it's a sense of peace and purpose.

  Alicia Keys

  Crazy, Creativity, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• In the Buddhist tradition, where mindful meditation comes from, anger is regarded as a somewhat unhealthy,unskillful emotion because we can be blinded by it. We don't see clearly and tend to do things and say things that are harmful out of the anger because we don't have clarity.

  Mark Coleman

  Buddhist, Emotion, Clarity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in this culture. This culture is the noisiest culture ever, ever. I think the damage that it has done to people is in that realm of silencing them. They are overwhelmed by gadgets. They don't know what to think because they're so heavily programmed about what it is that they should want and should think.

  Alice Walker

  Thinking, Voice, People

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

  Alice Walker

  Mind, Helping, Stealing

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

  Alice Walker

  Self, Soul, Thieves

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come to the seventh. So the technique is to abandon the sixth in order for the seventh step to be possible. And this is our practice, to release our views. The practice of nonattachment to views is at the heart of the Buddhist practice of meditation.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Heart, Thinking

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com.

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• If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.

  George Harrison

  Believe, Perception, Want

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads.

  George Harrison

  Mean, Thinking, Track

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• One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

  George Harrison

  Differences, Connections, Silent

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That's what's so nice. In my life there's been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Krishna in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you're trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible.

  George Harrison

  Nice, Reality, Mind

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born with from all your past lives, and the object of human life is to try and undo all those knots. That's what chanting and meditation in God consciousness can do. Otherwise you simply tie another ten knots each time you try to undo one knot. That's how karma works.

  George Harrison

  Karma, Past, Ties

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• Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people.

  George Harrison

  Hippie, Yoga, Thinking

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• I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now. More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Spiritual, Yoga, People

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• People who say, "I don't believe in God," I want to say to them, "Forget the G O D word. But can you believe that there is something larger than yourself that is working for you and around you in a brilliant cosmic intelligence?" To me, daily practice of meditation is accessing that reverence and awe and really tapping into it. Do whatever it takes to move with it, to partner with it, and live your life with that in mind. Imagine what would happen if enough of us did that? We would open to such amazing energy, creativity, and power.

  Agapi Stassinopoulos

  Believe, Moving, Creativity

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I've been moved in recent days by Psalm 104:34-35: "I will sing to the Lord as long as I live. I will give praise to my God while I have my being. My meditation of him will be sweet. I will be glad in the Lord." And with my song I want to praise Him.

  Cliff Barrows

  Song, Sweet, Long

  "Cliff Barrows Still Singing at 90". Interview with Bob Paulson, billygraham.org. April 28, 2013.

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• My mother told me, "Memorize the hymnbook and the Psalms of David, and you'll find them to be the greatest help in preaching and sharing your faith with others." Mother was right. I can't see to read anymore, but "my meditation of Him shall be sweet" (Psalm 104:34). And He constantly speaks to me.

  Cliff Barrows

  Mother, Sweet, Helping

  "Cliff Barrows Still Singing at 90". Interview with Bob Paulson, billygraham.org. April 28, 2013.

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• I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong, or Tibetan. It can help widen and deepen anyone's meditation experience.

  Kazuaki Tanahashi

  Yoga, Thinking, Qigong

  Source: blogs.sfzc.org

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• The Ninja Turtles made me who I am today in a big way. It was my favorite show as a kid. It got me into meditation, martial arts, speed boarding, and generally like the positive person that I am today is because of the Turtles.

  Greg Cipes

  Art, Kids, Turtles

  Source: 411mania.com

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• Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's done on people when they're meditating, they indeed are entering a different portion of the brain which is activated.

  Darold Treffert

  People, Brain, Doe

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• We do meditation, spiritual practices in this temporary body. Though this body is temporary, you have to use temporary things to realize the Truth.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Practice, Use

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