Ajahn Chah Quotes

If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.

Ajahn Chah

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• After doing a juice cleanse, I'm motivated to eat healthier and not emotionally. Cleansing is like my meditation. It makes me stop, focus and think about what I'm putting into my body. I'm making a commitment to my health and hitting the reset button.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Stop
  • Health
  • Focus

• Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
  • Music
  • Me
  • Meditation

• I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • Find
  • Guitar
  • Numbers

• My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.

  

  Gallant
  • Live
  • Want
  • Emotional

• There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • People
  • Good
  • Numbers

• If you had to sum up chemistry in one sentence, it might be this: Atoms need to have full shells of electrons to feel satisfied, and different elements steal, shed, or borrow different numbers of electrons to achieve a full shell.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Up
  • Different
  • Feel

• 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
  • Strength

• Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Single
  • Day
  • Numbers

• In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate and mindful toward yourself.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Experience
  • Best
  • Yourself

• Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can't stand the suffering anymore.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • People
  • May
  • Suffering

• When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Work
  • Men
  • Numbers

• Music is a job, but I figured out ways to get my mind into a place where I could be creative. I actually discovered meditation. It enabled me to clear my mind of all the drama and focus on the music.

  

  Flume
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Job

• Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • Day
  • Meditation
  • Busy

• Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of the real and unreal. In short, It is beyond all relativity.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Mind
  • Real
  • Knowledge

• Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.

  

  Mark Fuhrman
  • Meditation

• I don't have tapes of meditation, but I put on the meditation station. I did as a player, too. I used to always play the game before the game happened. As a coach, I do the same thing.

  

  Jason Kidd
  • Game
  • Player
  • Meditation

• 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 The Platters
  • Experience
  • Energy
  • Peace

• Your morning sets up the success of your day. So many people wake up and immediately check text messages, emails, and social media. I use my first hour awake for my morning routine of breakfast and meditation to prepare myself.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• Outside, the main doors behind him, he was hit full in the chest by autumn. The doggy wind leapt about him and nipped; leaves skirred along the pavement, the scrape of the ferrules of sticks; melancholy, that tetrasyllable, sat on a plinth in the middle of the square. English autumn, and the whistling tiny souls of the dead round the war memorial.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • War
  • English
  • Wind

• I was playing baseball, and I tripped over first base - I'm very clumsy - and I fell and broke my wrist. That was pretty painful.

  

  Christopher Mintz-Plasse
  • Pretty
  • Baseball

• Art bids us touch and taste and hear and see the world, and shrinks from what Blake calls mathematic form, from every abstract form, from all that is of the brain only.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • World
  • Art
  • Brain

• I don't have the time to think about what someone else thinks of me because I'm busy making films.

  

  Ram Gopal Varma
  • Because
  • Someone
  • Thinks

• If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Meditation
  • Numbers
  • Havens