Gautama Buddha Quotes
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When I'm home on a break, I lock myself in my room and play guitar. After two or three hours, I start getting into this total meditation. It's a feeling few people experience, and that's usually when I come up with weird stuff. It just flows. I can't force myself. I don't sit down and say I've got to practice.
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If I can stay constantly busy, I'll be happy.
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Just try to be happy. Unhappiness starts with wanting to be happier.
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I want just to be happy and peaceful. And that's not always the case when you're married.
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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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My hardest thing was to let go, to be happy for everybody and just to enjoy. And go back to being what you were before you became an artist, and that was just a fan.
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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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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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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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I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.
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Be happy. Don't make a Vine about, like, something not that happy.
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I'm a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.
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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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Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
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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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The sun, that brave man, Comes through boughs that lie in wait, That brave man.Green and gloomy eyes In dark forms of the grass Run away.The good stars, Pale helms and spiky spurs, Run away.Fears of my bed, Fears of life and fears of death, Run away.That brave man comes up From below and walks without meditation, That brave man.
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If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.
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'Sister,' quoth Flesh, 'what liv'st thou onNothing but Meditation?
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It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.
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Oftentimes, what you wind up learning is very different than what you expect.
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I err on the side of a kind of optimistic agnostic sense that there's something that put us all here - some energy or something that we are not in a position to understand.
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Inflation is not all bad. After all, it has allowed every American to live in a more expensive neighborhood without moving.
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I used to watch a lot of documentaries about Satanic possession - and I don't know if this is racist or not - but in the documentaries, it never happened to Americans! It was always happening in Central America or South America; that's where the priest was always going down to exorcise possessed people. So I didn't have a lot of fear of being possessed by the devil.
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Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker.
