Meditation Quotes
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Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once were. The wheels of the steamship turned as swiftly as they do now, but as silent and unsubstantial as the motions of the inventor's thought; and in the noiseless loom of his meditation were woven the sinews of the printing-press, whose thunder shakes the world.
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Whatever you have to have, try to have something which is handmade.
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If you haven't cried deeply a number of times, your meditation hasn't really begun.
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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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You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?
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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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When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.
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When it comes to meditation, though, the goal and the journey are the same thing.
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True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.
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Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.
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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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I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.
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Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to visit. You will witness all kinds of scenes and actors, all kinds of temptations and stories, everything imaginable. Your only job is to stay in your seat. You will see it all arise and pass, and out of this, wisdom and understanding will come.
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We have to awaken ourselves into that new awareness by which we can know the absolute truth and we can know that Divine power which is surrounding us.
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Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.
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One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
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I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.
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Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is the essence of all things. When one is not accustomed to take repose, one does not know what is behind one's being.
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If you can reduce the power of reaction, you rise much higher.
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When you understand that everything happening in the world mirrors something that's happening in yourself, then you can work on the self by working on the external manifestation of that thing in the world. And in fact, there may be no other way. You can sit in meditation for a long time and be blind to huge wounds in yourself, and it's only when you're engaging with the world that the wounds become visible, externalized.
