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Meditation Quotes
"Real meditation means: don't avoid the inner madhouse; enter into it, face it, encounter it, be watchful, because it is through watchfulness that you will overcome it."
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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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"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 a secular practice, not a religious practice."
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"Use meditation and blissful perceptions to create inner peace and world peace."
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"In his talk, Suzuki Roshi says that meditation and the whole process of finding your own true nature is one continuous mistake, and that rather than that being a reason for depression or discouragement, it's actually the motivation."
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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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"Om meditation eliminates rigid and fixed views about the world. It creates a spacious, flexible and open views about the world."
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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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"Meditation is the simplest process through which you can create harmony between the body, mind, spirit, and nature."
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"Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence."
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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 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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"You ought to mediate on the Scriptures daily."
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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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"Vipassana meditation is not an intellectual journey but an experiential awakening."
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"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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"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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"IN practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal-quite the opposite."
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"Concentration is, a relaxed mental state, where the stream of consciousness flows in a single direction, either focusing on a phrase or mental picture, or alternately, a state in which the mind is alert and aware."
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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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"When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was, his answer was, 'Lots of space, nothing holy. Meditation is nothing holy. Therefore there's nothing that you think or feel that somehow gets put in the category of 'sin. There's nothing that you can think or feel that gets put in the category of 'bad. There's nothing that you can think or feel that gets put in the category of 'wrong. It's all good juicy stuff-the manure of waking up, the manure of achieving enlightenment, the art of living in the present moment."
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"Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment."
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"Meditation is, a state that can best be described as deep dreamless sleep while awake."
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"Sitting meditation begins with good posture."
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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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"Masturbation and meditation both promote physical and mental wellbeing."
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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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"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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"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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"Meditation brings Nirvana, and Nirvana brings Buddhahood."
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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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"It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing."
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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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"Reflect and meditate on yourself and discover ways to multiply yourself."
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"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!"
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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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