Meditation Quotes - Page 8

• ...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Mind, Delight, Helpful

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.77, Penguin Books India

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• The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.

  Rajneesh

  World, Harmony, Spread

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• The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Journey, Giving, Over You

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 04, 2013

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• To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation Practice, Mind, Quiet

  "Collected Works of J Krishnamurti 1956-1957: A Light to Yourself".

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• The act of meditation is being spacious.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

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• Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

  John Welwood

  Letting Go, Nice, Inspiration

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• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Ambition, Mind

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

  Mark Tobey

  Believe, Serenity, Action

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• At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

  Ringo Starr

  Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, The End Of The Day

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• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

  Alan Watts

  Journey, Discovery, Meditation And Yoga

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Water, Reverie, Absent Minded

  Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications

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• Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

  Tom Robbins

  Ego, Mind, Ass

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• Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Vision, Society

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• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

  Laozi

  Heart, Land, Dwelling

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

  Gillian Anderson

  Yoga, Mean, Way

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• Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

  Celine Dion

  Golf, Hands, Perfection

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• There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

  Dalai Lama

  Buddhism, Technique

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• Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

  Ziggy Marley

  Yoga, Great Things, Connected

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

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• The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

  Philip K. Dick

  Problem, Ends, Introspection

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.

  Helene Cixous

  Writing, Needs, Life Is

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• In modern times, what impresses one is not a simple and unassuming statement of the truth, but superficial showmanship and display.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• The Spirit is like the steady axis of a wheel. If our attention reaches the immovable firm axis at the very centre of the wheel of our existence (which is constantly moving), we become enlightened by the Spirit, the source of inner peace, and reach a state of complete calm and self-knowledge.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Believe

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• After Self-Realisation it is easy to perceive the truth that all these religions were born on the same tree of spirituality, but that those in charge of each religion plucked the flowers from the living source and are now fighting each other with the dead flowers of merely partial truths.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Flower

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• Only after Self-Realisation and only then, is there a direct experience of the Spirit. It then manifests its powers in the human personality, and it's light enlightens the consciousness into a new awareness. The Divine intelligence of the Spirit radiates on all sides.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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