Meditation Quotes - Page 38

• In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhism, Earth, Awakening

  "Beyond environment: falling back in love with Mother Earth" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2012.

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• When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you; without the sun there is no life at all and suddenly you get in touch with the sun in a different way.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspirational, Life, Change

  "How a sense of sacred can help sustainable business" by Jo Confino, www.theguardian.com. January 8, 2013.

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• I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, pilates or meditation.

  Donna Karan

  Yoga, Practice, Soul

  "A Conversation With Fashion Designer and Philanthropist Donna Karan". Interview with Blue Carreon, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 23, 2013.

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• I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

  Miranda Kerr

  Spiritual, Yoga, Practice

  "The Style Q&A: Miranda Kerr". Interview with Kerry Pieri, www.harpersbazaar.com. August 9, 2012.

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• I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

  David Lynch

  Thinking, Church, Raised

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• Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

  David Lynch

  Car, Technique, Transcendental

  Interview with Andy Battaglia, www.avclub.com. January 23, 2007.

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• Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It's such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.

  David Lynch

  Creativity, Blessing, Technique

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• I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

  David Lynch

  Real, Creativity, Peaceful

  Interview With Mark Kermode, www.theguardian.com. February 8, 2007.

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• Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Reality, Mind, Wells

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• When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

  Shirley MacLaine

  Walking Meditation, Hours, Walks

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• Jesus himself talked about prayer and meditation. Anything that brings you closer to the Lord, what's wrong with that?

  Dennis Quaid

  Jesus, Prayer, Lord

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• Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

  Lou Reed

  Eye, Simple, Two

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Meaningful, Moving, Recovery

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• I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Spiritual, Teacher, Spiritual Teachers

  "A Way Out of Suffering: An Interview With Sharon Salzberg". "Omega Institute" Interview, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2012.

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• I've spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Teacher, Compassion, Love Strength

  "Fierce Compassion" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 14, 2012.

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• My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Retreat

  "Meditation Practice: A Paradigm Shift" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 9, 2011.

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• The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Tradition, Can Do

  "Meditation Practice: A Paradigm Shift" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 9, 2011.

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• What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Pain, Helping, Daily Life

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Dec 07, 2016

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• I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Meditation Practice, Technique

  "Opening the Heart with Lovingkindness" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 3, 2011.

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• It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Powerful, Thinking, Meditation Practice

  "Meditation Practice: A Paradigm Shift" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 9, 2011.

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• Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Two, Effort, Secret

  "How Doing Nothing Can Help You Truly Live" by Sharon Salzberg, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 24, 2010.

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• Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Strong, Memories, Thinking

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• Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're permanent and at the center of the universe. Suddenly (we're saved!) other people are real again, and we're fond of them.

  George Saunders

  Prayer, Real, Reading

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• What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality.

  Wallace Stevens

  Eye, Reality, May

  Wallace Stevens, Henry E. Huntington Library and Art Gallery (1989). “Sur Plusieurs Beaux Sujects: Wallace Stevens' Commonplace Book”, p.12, Stanford University Press

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• In the beginner's mind there are many possibilities, in the expert's mind there are few.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Inspirational, Teaching, Imagination

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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