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

• 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.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • People
  • Brain
  • Changes

• 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

• 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!

  

  Taisen Deshimaru
  • Water
  • Forever
  • Cold

• 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

• 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.

  

  Agnes Martin
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Meditation

• 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

• Meditation, yoga, working out, and eating well. That's my wellness. And I think occasionally you have to treat yourself, so if you do need to take yourself shopping, go take yourself shopping.

  

  Cynthia Erivo
  • Yoga
  • Meditation
  • Shopping

• I got comments about being too small, too short, there haven't been any Asian players and who am I to go out there and turn pro before my 16th birthday? And that's all good and fine. People want to have their comments and their opinions. Ultimately, you do what you believe in your heart. I think for me, things turned out OK.

  

  Michael Chang
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Opinion

• If you haven't failed yet, you haven't tried anything.

  

  Reshma Saujani
  • Havens

• There was a night when winds from unknown spaces whirled us irresistibly into limitless vacum beyond all thought and entity. Perceptions of the most maddeningly untransmissible sort thronged upon us; perceptions of infinity which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Night
  • Lost

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

  

  Ajahn Chah
  • Meditation
  • Numbers
  • Havens