Chanting Quotes

• Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It deepens the channel of grace, and it's a way of being present in the moment.

  Krishna Das

  Letting Go, Heart, Grace

  FaceBook post by Krishna Das from Oct 26, 2015

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• You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

  Amit Ray

  Flower, Psychics, Meditation

  "OM Chanting and Meditation". Book by Amit Ray, 2010.

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• Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us.

  Swami Muktananda

  Heart, Making Love, Flow

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• Chanting is a significant and mysterious practice. It is the highest nectar, a tonic that fully nourishes our inner being. Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us. It releases such intoxicating inner bliss and enthusiastic splendor, that simply through the nectar it generates, we can enter the abode of the Self.

  Swami Muktananda

  Heart, Self, Practice

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• The response that comes from chanting is in the form of bliss, or spiritual happiness, which is a much higher taste than any happiness found here in the material world. That's why I say that the more you do it, the more you don't want to stop, because it feels so nice and peaceful.

  George Harrison

  Spiritual, Nice, Peaceful

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

  George Harrison

  Differences, Meditation, Connections

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• Krishna is present fully in His holy name and this is realized by the humility and sincerity in our chanting.

  Radhanath Swami

  Humility, Names, Sincerity

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• Chanting is one of the most traditional and first Yoga practices. It helps to open the throat area and is a great way to learn some Sanskrit and the Yoga Sutra.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Practice, Way

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• Chanting just hits you and you want to be a part of it. That’s the point of this whole thing. That’s what cuts through all the ‘stuff’. You get lit up. You don’t have to know what it means.

  Krishna Das

  Mean, Cutting, Want

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• All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans chanting your name, even when there are only four or five thousand in the stands on a Wednesday afternoon.

  Mickey Mantle

  Names, Sound, Fans

  Mickey Mantle (1986). “The Mick”, Jove Publications

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• This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.

  A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada

  Spiritual, Sensual, Intellectual

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• In chanting, one tries to find one's own sound, literally, and then to go within that-to find the sounds within one's own sound, to bring out that which is within, to go into, explore and discover oneself.

  Jill Purce

  Trying, Sound, Self Knowledge

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• No man, however civilized, can listen for very long to African drumming, or Indian chanting, or Welsh hymn singing, and retain intact his critical and self-conscious personality.

  Aldous Huxley

  Men, Self, Hymns

  Aldous Huxley (1971). “The devils of Loudon”

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• Aum is the most powerful of all mantras. It is good to chant Aum seven or more times before and after each meditation. Chanting "Aum" puts you in harmony with the vibration of Eternity. "Aum" opens the gateway to the infinite highway of light.

  Frederick Lenz

  Powerful, Buddhism, Light

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• Loving the Om (AUM) is loving yourself, your own Self. Om chanting is a creative art, not just mechanical repetition of a word.

  Amit Ray

  Art, Loving Yourself, Creative

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• Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law?

  Nichiren

  Law, Joy, Suffering

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• Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the ocean of transmigration, the cycle of birth and death. The mantra is the oar of the boat; it is the instrument you use to cross the samsara of your restless mind, with its unending thought waves. The mantra can also be compared to a ladder that you climb to reach the heights of God realization.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Ocean, Restless Mind, Names

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• So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

  Duncan Sheik

  Happiness, Creativity, Impact

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• It is a good practice to write at least on page of mantra daily. Many people get better concentration by writing than by chanting. Try also to inculcate in children the habit of chanting and neatly writing the mantra. This will help to improve their handwriting, too. The book in which the mantra is written should not be thrown around; it should be carefully kept in our meditation or shrine room.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Children, Book, Writing

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• Man can become purified, and with divine vision he can see God. You get pure by chanting, then you see Him.

  George Harrison

  Men, Vision, Divine

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.

  Craig Kilborn

  Running, California, People

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• I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

  Ray Davies

  Ideas, India

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• Mitt Romney is a true Mormon. John Edwards and Bill Clinton are not real Mormons. It was not 'Brigham Young' they were chanting. It was 'Bring 'em young.

  Evan Sayet

  Real, Ems, Bills

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• This ancient practice of the Rudrabhishekam, with the chanting of mantras, has been happening since thousands of years. It creates such a deep resonance in our consciousness, because our consciousness is very ancient

  Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

  Years, Practice, Consciousness

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• Only a humorless tyrant could want a perpetual chanting of praises that, one has no choice but to assume, would be the innate virtues and splendors furnished him by his creator, infinite regression, drowned in praise!

  Christopher Hitchens

  Tyrants, Choices, Religion

  Christopher Hitchens (2009). “Letters to a Young Contrarian”, p.64, Basic Books

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