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"IN practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal-quite the opposite."
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"Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and be well."

"Meditation is the vitamin for your mind."

"For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state."

"Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing."

"In deep silence, raise your consciousness. Now feel the profound joy of life."

"Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood."

"Meditation is the simplest process through which you can create harmony between the body, mind, spirit, and nature."

"Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself."

"All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming."

"Meditation is not a religion but a scientific way to enhance the concentration power of the mind."
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"Compassion is not a relationship between the healer and the wounded. It's a relationship between equals. Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity."

"In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of meditation a day helps us to do this, let's go for it!"

"Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have."

"It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing."

"We think that if we just meditated enough or jogged enough or ate perfect food, everything would be perfect. But from the point of view of someone who is awake, that's death. Seeking security or perfection, rejoicing in feeling confirmed and whole, self contained and comfortable, is some kind of death. It doesn't have any fresh air. There's no room for something to come in and interrupt all that. We are killing the moment by controlling our experience."

"PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path."

"The very first noble truth of the Buddha points out that suffering is inevitable for human beings as long as we believe that things last-that they don't disintegrate, that they can be counted on to satisfy our hunger for security."

"It's hard to know whether to laugh or to cry at the human predicament. Here we are with so much wisdom and tenderness, and-without even knowing it-we cover it over to protect ourselves from insecurity. Although we have the potential to experience the freedom of a butterfly, we mysteriously prefer the small and fearful cocoon of ego."
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