Dalai Lama Quotes

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

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• Meditation isn't snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn't a panacea. If you don't meditate, there's no need to stress out about it.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Stress
  • Meditation

• 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

• 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.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • People
  • Up
  • Home

• 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

• Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Help

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

  

  Gallant
  • Live
  • Want
  • Emotional

• 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

• 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

• I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week.

  

  Mahavishnu John McLaughlin
  • Health
  • Day
  • Yoga

• 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.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Music
  • Meditation
  • Shopping

• 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

• Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Meditation
  • Negative

• 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

• Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.

  

  Patanjali
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Peace

• I am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Public
  • Vice
  • Amusements

• In the aftermath of September 11, it has been made clear to us that our foreign policy can no longer afford to narrowly focus on short-term benefits. For our nation's long-term security, we must be active in promoting American values abroad through our foreign policy.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Long
  • American
  • Focus

• I know, in India, specially in Bollywood and the sports fraternity, there is a lot of negative media attention on prominent public figures.

  

  Leander Paes
  • Attention
  • Sports

• I don't take it lightly that I brought a life into this world. They're waiting for you every day, these sweet little angels. You have to have time for them to interact on a daily basis.

  

  Kelly Cutrone
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• We simply must find ways to see each other more clearly. And part of that has to involve collecting and sharing better information about encounters between police and citizens, especially violent encounters.

  

  James Comey
  • Police

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

  

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