Meditation Quotes
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You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you have time to breathe but not to meditate? Breathing is something vital to peoples lives. If you see that Dhamma practice is vital to your life, then you will feel that breathing and practising the Dhamma are equally important.
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My mother's a Buddhist. In Buddhism, if you want to achieve enlightenment, you have to do it through meditation and self-improvement through the mind. That's something she's passed on to me: to be able to calm myself down and use my mind as my main asset.
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Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we have time to breathe? Because we see the importance of the breath, we can always find time to breathe. In the same way, if we see the importance of meditation practice we will find the time to practice.
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Meditation means simple acceptance.
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A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.
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Exercise is like meditation for me, and I'm giving myself that time... I can't live without it now.
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That's what you need for your writing - to learn how to be present, learn how to be calm. So take that nap, do that meditation.
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Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the sole aim is to stay on board as long as possible.
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Morning meditation is important to start every day on a positive note.
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Meditation is about learning how to rest in uncertainty.
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I make sure to meditate at least twice a day. I have migraines, and transcendental meditation is hugely helpful in combating them.
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We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up.
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Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.
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I have one room dedicated to just meditation.
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Kundalini cures you, she improves you, she bestows all the blissful things upon you. She takes you away from the worries of grosser level.
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Thinking is the natural activity of the mind. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. Meditation is simply a process of resting the mind in its natural state, which is open to and naturally aware of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they occur.
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Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in touch with the sacred space of your heart.
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The real meditation is ... the meditation on one's identity. Ah, voilà une chose!! You try it. You try finding out why you're you and not somebody else. And who in the blazes are you anyhow? Ah, voilà une chose!
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The enjoyment of life is only possible if we could get connected to the spirit.
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Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment.
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I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.
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When it comes to meditation, though, the goal and the journey are the same thing.
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Before you speak, get very quiet, do the meditation, say, "Use me as a channel for what needs to get said to this community. This community needs to hear something very important that I'm the only person in the room who can say it. Please help open me so that I'm not frightened and speak through me. Let me be that channel so that I can help heal." You make yourself so humble that you really are like a flute and that music that comes out comes from el corazón. All the people you're connected to from that light that we call love.
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Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.
