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Meditation Quotes
"Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain."
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"Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more."
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"Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all barriers, thoughts, and distractions to simply be present."
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"Sleep is the best meditation."
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"Meditation is not about getting somewhere. It is about being here."
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"I can only meditate when I am walking, when I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs."
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"Meditation means being aware of what you are doing."
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"A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises."
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"When the mind is empty, silent, when it is in a state of complete negation - which is not blankness, nor the opposite of being positive, but a totally different state in which all thought has ceased - only then is it possible for that which is unnameable to come into being."
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"Doing Kashaya[anger, pride, deceit and greed] means to stumble. If artadhyan (adverse meditation) and raudradhyan (wrathful meditation) occurs, it is called stumbling."
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"In a valley betwixt two hills there I stood perfectly still. In this stance I did find the most beautiful secrets of my mind."
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"During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but listening to the wind blowing through the trees from the inner silence and being one with the wind is like listening to the celestial music."
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"Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate."
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"Meditation is a great tool which can be used to create harmony between the inner subconscious world and the outer chaotic world."
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"Don't chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Don't run after your thoughts. Find joy and peace in this very moment ."
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"Close your eyes. Hear the silent snow. Listen to your soul speak."
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"The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself."
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"All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming."
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"Meditation is a wonderful way to shout down the outer noise so that you may pay attention to the universal inner message."
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"To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you."
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"We do so much, we run so quickly, the situation is difficult, and many people say, "Don't just sit there, do something." But doing more things may make the situation worse. So you should say, "Don't just do something, sit there." Sit there, stop, be yourself first, and begin from there."
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"Spend some quiet time each day to get closer to your positive inner-self. It is always calling for your undivided attention."
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"Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and channelizing the power of your emotions and imagination for fulfilling a bigger dream - the dream that will bring more life, energy peace, happiness and meaning to you and the society."
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"Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality."
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"Meditation is the art of doing nothing and being everything."
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"By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home."
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"Can you look without the voice in your head commenting, drawing conclusions, comparing, or trying to figure something out?"
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"The Word of God hidden in the heart is a stubborn voice to suppress."
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"Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection."
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"Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence."
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"For the bliss of the deep abode is not lightly abandoned in favor of the self-scattering of the wakened state."
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"Meditation will give you a little glimpse, a little taste, that the truth is inside you."
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"A place where the mind can attain stillness meaning doing darshan (seeing with the intent of worship) of a great person who has stillness of the mind, can still the mind of other person, however the chit is not steady there."
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"Silence is the communing of a conscious soul with itself."
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"Meditation creates harmony in the midst of chaos in my inner world and outer reality."
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"Meditation is blossoming of the prefrontal cortex to overcome the momentum of the nature. It is coming out of the loops of memories, patterns,fears, dreams and anger."
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"Meditation is not a religion but a scientific way to enhance the concentration power of the mind."
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"When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go in meditation, the more you realize that you are nobody, a nothingness. It is a death of the ego. That is why people become afraid of meditation."
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"Meditation gives clear understanding about body and brain interface with consciousness."
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"Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego."
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"Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one another.Meditation is a way to help those values become real in day-to-day life, helping people to understand themselves more and more and have a way to not get lost in old patterns."
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"Slowing down your thoughts on a regular basis is the path to consistent peace of mind."
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"Meditation is an adventure, the greatest adventure the human mind can undertake."
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"Meditation is the vitamin for your mind."
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"I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it."
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