Ajahn Chah Quotes
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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.
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Music used to be a lot more about angst for me. Now it's the only form of meditation I do.
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I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.
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My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like.
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There are people who are good for letters and others that are good for numbers.
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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.
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I'm a huge fan of meditation. I know lots of people assume meditation to be some Buddhist mumbo-jumbo, but it's been scientifically documented to create therapeutic changes in the brain.
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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.
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Being a track sprinter, when it's all about a thousandth of a second, there is no escaping the numbers every single day.
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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.
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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.
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When large numbers of men are unable to find work, unemployment results.
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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.
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Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
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If you have a glass full of liquid you can discourse forever on its qualities, discuss whether it is cold, warm, whether it is really and truly composed of H-2-O, or even mineral water, or saki. Meditation is Drinking it!
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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.
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Everything is contemplated in the mind without meditation. We make a very complicated response. Just to look at a floating branch evokes very complicated objective and nonobjective responses. The artist must slow all this down, mentally. It is this mental experience that makes the representation of beauty possible.
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Pre-meditation can form in split seconds.
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Numbers are the highest degree of knowledge. It is knowledge itself.
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Of course, after I retire I want to be the housewife, really.
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When you finish the season with a trophy it's different.
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Black women rock the cradle, and whoever rocks the cradle rocks the future.
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If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.
