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Meditation Quotes
"As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'"
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"Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind."
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"Meditation is a way of finding inner quietness and inner tranquility."
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"Meditation is the brain's way to exercise."
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"This meditation is called nontheistic, which doesn't have anything to do with believing in God or not believing in God, but means that nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to reject.The practice of meditation helps us to get to know this basic energy really well, with tremendous honesty and warmheartedness, and we begin to figure out for ourselves what is poison and what is medicin, which means something different for each of us."
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"Each new day begins with a meditation, and ends with a purifying catharsis."
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"One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are."
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"In deep silence, raise your consciousness. Now feel the profound joy of life."
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"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."
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"Sitting meditation begins with good posture."
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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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"If you want to experience enlightenment, take a deep breath in and relax. As you are releasing the air forget, for a moment, about all your worries and desires. Just appreciate yourself the way you are in the very moment. Then, just lighten up. Keep doing it as often as you want to experience enlightenment. That is it."
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"It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing."
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"Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around."
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"Meditation is a magical way to merge the finite mind with the universal infinite mind."
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"Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice."
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"Yesterday I talked about cultivating precision, gentleness, and openess, and described how the meditation technique helps us to remember the qualities that we already possess."
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"Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and fruitful silence of God and learns something of the secret of His perfections less by seeing than by fruitive love."
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"Meditation is, a state that can best be described as deep dreamless sleep while awake."
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"The key is to silence the mind long enough to tune into the intuition of the heart."
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"Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention."
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"Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment."
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"Use meditation and blissful perceptions to create inner peace and world peace."
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"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."
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"Meditation need not mean sitting in a special posture. Nonetheless, we can use certain physical and mental exercises to calm the noises of the mind and body, and sensitize us to the sound of the soul."
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"Meditation is the simplest process through which you can create harmony between the body, mind, spirit, and nature."
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"Do not force your mind to get rid of random thoughts, because your brain is simply not capable of doing so. Instead, when you sit to practise meditation, let the thoughts come and go, just don't serve them tea. Over time, that background noise inside your head would disappear."
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"Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence."
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"Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are."
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"You ought to mediate on the Scriptures daily."
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"Ten minutes of meditation a day, keeps the psychiatrist away."
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"Meditation is experiencing the self in million ways."
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"Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself."
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"Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options."
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"Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood."
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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."
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"Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing."
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