Meditation Quotes - Page 16

• The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Yoga, Men

  "Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives". Book by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, 1996.

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• The Witness is a huge step forward, and it is a necessary and important step in meditation, but it is not ultimate.  When the Witness or the soul is finally undone, then the Witness dissolves into everything that is witnessed.  The subject/object duality collapses and there is only pure nondual awareness, which is very simple, very obvious.

  Ken Wilber

  Simple, Soul, Important

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.103, Shambhala Publications

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• Be aware of your breathing. Notice how this takes attention away from your thinking and creates space.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Thinking, Breathing, Space

  Twitter post from Sep 24, 2009

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• Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Action

  Rajneesh (Bhagwan Shree), Swami Krishna Prem (1984). “From R to Z”

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• meditation is not supposed to be the fabrication or the reinforcement of some particular state, but simply the cultivation of the awareness of whatever is arising in the mind.

  Thrangu Rinpoche

  Mind, Reinforcement, Awareness

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• Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Prayer, Book

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• The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Drinking, Practice, Water

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• Meditate on the horrors of Hell, which will last for eternity because of one easily-committed mortal sin. Try hard to be among the few who are chosen. Think of the eternal flames of Hell, and how few there are that are saved.

  Benedict Joseph Labre

  Christian, Thinking, Flames

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• As a painter paints pictures on a wall, the intellect goes on creating the world in the heart always.

  Brahmananda Saraswati

  Wall, Heart, Creating

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• When you begin to meditate on a regular basis, you will start to notice that thoughts and feelings that may have been building up inside of you are gently released and you reach the quiet place that was always there, waiting for you- the place of pure awareness. It is there that you will experience peace, healing, and true rejuvenation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Peace, Healing, Thinking

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• Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!

  Abhinavagupta

  Life, Faith, Spiritual

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• If you surrender yourself, and do not rush, but meditate on the Word of God, you will find prayer forming in your heart. It is a prayer inspired by the Holy Spirit, a prayer that God will be pleased to hear.

  John R. Rice

  God, Religious, Prayer

  John R. Rice (2000). “Prayer: Asking and Receiving”, p.262, Sword of the Lord Publishers

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• Any really good scientist is as much an artist as a scientist. All the interesting stuff is found on the edge between knowing and not knowing. I know that sounds like a meditation teacher speaking, but when you're in the laboratory, or you're theorizing about physics, you need to know what you know, but if you can't get out from under that, you won't be able to make that insightful, first-time connection that nobody else has seen before.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Teacher, Artist, Interesting

  Source: eomega.org

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• Now you are changed people. Your personality is different. It's shining through your spirit. In that spirit, you have to see everything. All your conditionings will drop out as soon as you start identifying your Self fully, fully with the spirit. Fully - again I say because we do not. We are still Christians. We are still Hindus. We are still Muslims. We are still Indians, English, this, that. We are still narrow-minded, small, little puddles. We have to be the ocean. Once you are identified with the ocean, you have to throw away everything and become absolutely clean and detached.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Christian, Wisdom

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• Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Practice, Ideas

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2009). “Beyond the Self: Teachings on the Middle Way”, p.8, Parallax Press

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• The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Silence, Essentials

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• If I ever write an autobiography about teaching meditation in the West, I'll call it "Pissing In the Wind - Teaching Buddhism in America".

  Frederick Lenz

  Teaching, Writing, Buddhism

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• Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives. It's about seeing how we react to all these things. It's seeing our emotions and thoughts just as they are right now, in this very moment, in this very room, on this very seat. It's about not trying to make them go away, not trying to become better than we are, but just seeing clearly with precision and gentleness.

  Pema Chodron

  Jobs, People, Mind

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• Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• Meditation, in all its forms and traditions, is an invitation to listen, to open, to quietly enlist the courage to be touched and formed by life.

  Mark Nepo

  Tradition, Form, Invitations

  Mark Nepo (2012). “Seven Thousand Ways to Listen: Staying Close to What Is Sacred”, p.287, Simon and Schuster

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• If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Mind, Empty, Ready

  Shunryu Suzuki (2010). “Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• If you cannot find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

  Dogen

  Spiritual, Art, Truth

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• You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Buddhist

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• Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Ignorance, Ill Will, Evil

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• There is no limit to the power of the human mind. The more concentrated it is, the more power is brought to bear on one point

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Practice

  Swami Vivekananda (2016). “Raja Yoga: Conquering the Internal Nature”, p.11, Advaita Ashrama

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