Meditating Quotes - Page 2

• When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously

  Sri Chinmoy

  Meditation, Soul, Mind

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.264, Aum Publications

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• Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder - the wonder that a world is worlding around us at all, that there are beings rather than nothing, that things are and we ourselves are in their midst, that we ourselves are and yet barely know who we are, and barely know that we do not know all this.

  Martin Heidegger

  Self, World, Who We Are

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• Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Remember You

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• While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

  Allan Lokos

  Inspiration, Practice, Meditation

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.48, Penguin

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• If you always meditate on sin, "I am a sinner, I am a sinner," actually you will become a sinner. The psychological approach is, you should forget it - even if you are a sinner, you should think, "I am the son of a Great Father, I am the daughter of a Great Father." Thus you are meditating on the Great Father, and a day is sure to come when you will become one with your Great Father.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Daughter, Father, Son

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• Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything.
  Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're always occupied.
  We get lost in millions of obsessions and fixations.
  But by meditating-by not doing anything-
  all these fixations are revealed and our obsessions will naturally undo themselves like a snake uncoiling itself.

  Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche

  Thinking, Snakes, Meditation

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• Meditating together is the best way to feel the collectivity.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Spiritual, Meditation, Essentials

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• When it comes time to die, you will not be afraid. By meditating, you will have already seen beyond life and death and you will see there is nothing to fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Life And Death, Meditation

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• The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they'll be doing it for a few months, and they will begin to change, but the experience is so subtle that they're not even aware of it.

  David Lynch

  People, Interesting, Months

  "An Ocean of Solutions". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• The person who's in the Zen monastery, who's doing a kind of poor job at meditating and a half-ass job cleaning the gardens is not doing very good yoga.

  Frederick Lenz

  Jobs, Yoga, Buddhism

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• Activity does not necessarily mean life. Quasars are active. And a monk meditating is not inanimate.

  Philip K. Dick

  Mean, Doe, Monk

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “A Scanner Darkly”, p.253, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and don't really think about what I'm doing, I just let it happen.

  Rick Wright

  Thinking, Play, Music Is

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• Just studying Buddhism, then meditating and going to Buddhist monasteries, talking to Buddhist monks, combined with the Thai people themselves, changed the way I look at the world.

  John Burdett

  Buddhist, Buddhism, Talking

  "Thai Air. John Burdett on 'Bangkok Haunts'". "Austin Chronicle" Interview, www.austinchronicle.com. June 15, 2007.

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• About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a more peaceful life, where my spiritual journey was not interrupted by egomania so regularly.

  Simon Amstell

  Spiritual, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• We often sometimes forget that- prior to the invention of removable pipe- there really were no English Bibles. We have treasures, we have Bibles in every size and shape and color. But there's a failure to recognize what's contained inside the cover of the Bible. We grow apathetic, and I think that the issue is reacting to the Word of God. Not just carrying, but get back into the Word of God and then get the Word of God into us. It's all about mining the scripture, memorizing the scripture, and meditating with our scripture.

  Hank Hanegraaff

  Thinking, Issues, Color

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• After two or three sessions of meditating on your heart chakra, it will no longer be necessary for you to physically touch your chest. You will sense the spot automatically.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Chakra Meditation

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• Go out and do the things you are afraid to do gradually. Gain the power to do that through meditating. You will find yourself limitless reality that knows no fear.

  Frederick Lenz

  Reality, Finding Yourself, Gains

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• You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

  Frederick Lenz

  Energy, Crowds, Gains

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• The unlocking of the kundalini, which occurs by meditating on the first, second and third chakras, is the entrance into the planes of power.

  Frederick Lenz

  Unlocking, Gaining Power, Firsts

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• Start meditating with your eyes open, focusing as a warm-up, then focus on a chakra, then just let go and merge. Don't sit there and think or move into sleepy states of awareness, but move into high-powered states of attention.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Moving, Eye

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• The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Practice, Meditation

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• There cannot be a move glorious object in creation than a human being replete with benevolence, meditating in what manner he might render himself most acceptable to his Creator by doing most good to His creatures.

  Henry Fielding

  Moving, Might, Creation

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• I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

  Tim Gunn

  Able, Cherish, My Own

  "Project Runway's Tim Gunn". Interview with Tony Peregrin, chicagoist.com. September 8, 2010.

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• The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world or, to put it another way, to transform ourselves so we can become better human beings in order to serve others in a wiser and more efficient way. It gives your life the noblest possible meaning.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Life, Order, Giving

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “The Art of Meditation”, p.8, Atlantic Books Ltd

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