Idries Shah Quotes
Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
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For the things we have to learn before we can do them, we learn by doing them.
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People tweet before they think, and it becomes obsessive.
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Many incredible artists die before they were famous.
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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
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Before 'Raman Raghav 2.0,' I played a criminal in 'Badlapur.' Though the character was innocent, he was not correctly interpreted by some sections of the audience.
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Obamacare was passed months before my first day at Komen.
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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.
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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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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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I'll be kicked out before I rust out.
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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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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Well, my brother started acting before I did.
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I'd been in love before - I was always in love.
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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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You give before you get.
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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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Inspiration usually comes during work, rather than before it.
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Looking at acting, in the movies or the theater, and the way I like to look at it, it's just an extension of childhood play... Kids play and imagine in a very intense fashion and they don't need any director telling them, 'You really have to believe in it.' They believe in it completely.
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It doesn't matter how good or bad the product is; the fact is that people don't read anymore.
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Even fear itself is frightened by the bodhisattva's fearlessness.
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I am a cautious pilgrim of the night, a tentative wanderer among the stars. My awareness of my home in the universe is fleeting and incomplete. Into the homeless home of the sun-faced buddha I have stepped but briefly. My quest, such as it is, is rewarded with faint lights and scrawny cries, a trait here and trait there, a hint of the infinite and a tingle in the spine. Of "minute particulars" I will make my way.
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Meditation - Before you learn how to meditate, you must unlearn what you think meditation might be.
