Meditation Quotes
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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.
Dalai Lama
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At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all. Our spiritual essence is not something that we create through meditation it's already there, deep within, be hind all the barriers, patiently waiting for us to recognize it.
Aaron Hoopes
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Meditation hasn't separated me from my life and my friends and my work. It's just made my fear go away, so I can just be that much more engaged.
Rivers Cuomo
Weezer
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They say that these are not the best of times But they're the only times I've ever known And I believe there is a time for meditation In cathedrals of our own.
Billy Joel
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Abstract terms (however useful they may be in argument) should be discarded in meditation, and the mind should be fixed on the particular and the concrete, that is, on the things themselves.
George Berkeley
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The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view.
Chogyam Trungpa
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The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a moment in the sunlight, then dive back in a graceful arc. There is no need to engage in a mental dialogue about the merits and demerits of the fish, emotionally react to the fish, or jump into the water to try to catch the fish. Once the fish is out of sight, it should also be out of mind.
Bill Vaughan
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That’s the interesting thing with meditation. It’s a reflection of the way in which you relate to the world around you.
Andy Puddicombe
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Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.
Dalai Lama
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I've been lucky to always have a healthy relationship with food. I also love to be consistent with meditation and make sure that I am supplying my body, mind, and soul with everything it needs to function.
Cara Santana
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A virtuous youth and frugal manhood always create a Pisgah for the veteran in righteousness, from which he may calmly survey the stars, and read his " title clear to mansions in the skies," while yet in the flesh he can soar on the wings of meditation above the clouds, and catch glimpses of the heavenly world that lies in the placid and everlasting orient before him.
Elias Lyman Magoon
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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.
Bill Vaughan
