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• In meditation we are continuously discovering who and what we are.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Discovering

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• Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

  Amit Ray

  Inspiration, Self, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2010). “Meditation: Insights and Inspiration”, p.64, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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• The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance,
  some form of unconscious resistance to what is.
  On the level of thought, the resistance is some form of judgement.
  The intensity of the suffering depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Acceptance, Thinking

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• Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Soul, Wandering Thoughts, Tongue

  Jeremy Taylor, George Rust (1835). “The Whole Works of the Right Rev. Jeremy Taylor ...: With an Essay, Biographical and Critical ...”, p.73

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• We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspiration, Thinking, Meditation Practice

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.76, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the deep silence of our own Being. This is not the silence of a stone, but creative silence. We have to find it for ourselves. We decrease activity until silence becomes creative, and we sit in creative silence and close the gates of perception for insight into the content of life.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Creative, Silence, Mind

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• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

  Nhat Hanh

  Anchors, Walking Meditation, Sky

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2016

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• The more innocent you are, the more blissful you will be.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

  Ray Dalio

  Inspiration, Meditation And Yoga, Practice

  "The world's largest hedge fund reimburses employees half the cost of $1,000 meditation lessons" by Richard Feloni, www.businessinsider.com. November 10, 2016.

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• In maiden meditation, fancy free.

  William Shakespeare

  Fancy, Maidens

  'A Midsummer Night's Dream' (1595-6) act 2, sc. 1, l. 161

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• Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into this. Do not become attached to your method. When, in the course of your meditation, your consciousness will have expanded and been transformed, you will then recognize that all the ways are valid ways.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhist, Moving, Illumination

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• Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

  Sivananda

  Pain, Yoga, Meditation Practice

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• When we go deep within, into the deepest recesses of our hearts, we commune with God through meditation. It is through meditation that we can know that God is both with form and without form, with attributes and without attributes.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Heart, Form, Deep Within

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• The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Ends, Where You Are, Meditating

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (2002). “Meditations”, p.16, Shambhala Publications

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• Whenever anyone has offended me, I try to raise my soul so high that the offense cannot reach it.

  Rene Descartes

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Attitude

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• Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Restless Mind

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• Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Acceptance, Satisfaction, Life Is

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Teaching, Luxury, Yield

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

  William Cowper

  Yoga, Book, Heart

  William Cowper, Robert Southey (1836). “The Works of William Cowper, Esq., Comprising His Poems, Correspondence, and Translations: With a Life of the Author”, p.234

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• Create a gap of no-mind in which you are highly alert and aware but not thinking. This is the essence of meditation.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Essence, Mind

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.20, New World Library

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• Someone once inquired of a Far Eastern Zen master, who had a great serenity and peace about him no matter what pressures he faced, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" He replied, "I never leave my place of meditation." He meditated early in the morning and for the rest of the day, he carried the peace of those moments with him in his mind and heart.

  Stephen Covey

  Morning, Heart, Serenity

  Stephen R. Covey (2015). “The Stephen R. Covey Interactive Reader - 4 Books in 1: The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, First Things First, and the Best of the Most Renowned Leadership Teacher of our Time”, p.419, Mango Media Inc.

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• Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

  Hugh Jackman

  Gratitude, Appreciation, Sleep

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. June 2006.

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• If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

  Daniel Goleman

  Mindfulness, Moments, Ability

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• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  Madame de Stael

  Prayer, Self, Praying

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• After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.

  Richard Dawkins

  Life, Gratitude, Morning

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