Meditation Quotes
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One grasps incomparably more things in boredom than by labor, effort being the mortal enemy of meditation.
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Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.
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I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.
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Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.
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Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
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Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.
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If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.
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In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.
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Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
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I begin each day with prayer and meditation. Throughout the day, I use affirmations and positive intentions to move through blocks, and each evening, I close the day with self-reflection and an inventory of my growth throughout the day.
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Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment.
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Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory.
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I hope the fans will take up meditation instead of drugs.
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Meditation is like a giant broom for sweeping away any stagnant or blocked energy that you may have buried deep in your body.
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I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.
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Prayer is a form of meditation, isn't it? It's laws of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what it receives. It's just kind of putting your thoughts out into the universe.
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In silence and in meditation on the eternal truths, I hear the voice of God which excites our hearts to greater love.
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A picture excites the love of parenting that comes through meditation on a child.
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I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.
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Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging.
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In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.
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Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.
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May 2 is traditionally the National Day of Prayer, a government-designated religious event intended to encourage people to 'turn to God in prayer and meditation.'
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I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter.
