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• I was deluding myself that the song was almost not important, but I think the real thing that was happening was almost like self-hypnosis or mediation. The guitar lick was the transcendental key that unlocked my brain. It freed me. And then it all became easy. It's funny now, because I've had times when it wasn't easy.

  John Fogerty

  Song, Real, Thinking

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 27, 2007.

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• Start today by practicing constant conversation with God and continual mediation on his Word. Prayer lets you speak to God; mediation lets God speak to you.

  Rick Warren

  Christian, Letting Go, Prayer

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• Some days, a beautiful sunset with your best friend can be one of the most peaceful and relaxing mediations of the day.

  Charles M. Schulz

  Beautiful, Sunset, Peaceful

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• Salvation could not come to the world without the mediation of Jesus Christ.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, World, Christ

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• One of the traditional Tantric methods of mediation is to imagine that you are taking on the suffering of all beings.

  Frederick Lenz

  Compassion, Suffering, Imagine

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• Change means movement. Movement means friction.

  Saul Alinsky

  Change, Mean, Vacuums

  Saul Alinsky (2010). “Reveille for Radicals”, p.224, Vintage

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• My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

  Richard Powers

  Technology, Goal, Invisible

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• An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Teacher, Light

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• My preparation is always mediation and deep breathing. And the rubbing of my hands together just gets my energy going.

  John Edward

  Deep Breathing, Hands, Meditation

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• The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into mirror (dream) worlds.

  Stuart Wilde

  Dream, Mirrors, Discipline

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• That one body may act upon another at a distance through a vacuum, without the mediation of any thing else, by and through which their action and force may be conveyed from one to another, is to me so great an absurdity, that I believe no man, who has in philosophical matters a compentent faculty of thinking, can ever fall into it.

  Isaac Newton

  Distance, Fall, Philosophical

  Sir Isaac Newton, Florian Cajori (1946). “Sir Isaac Newton's Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World”, p.636, Univ of California Press

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• My actions to promote peace, the mediation missions which I carried out during many conflicts, which very often occurred between brothers of the same country, are not driven by any ulterior motives or any calculations based on personal ambitions.

  Omar Bongo

  Country, Brother, Ambition

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• I think nonviolence and the mediation of conflict by means of respecting civility must be promoted. But being the kind of beings we [peoplep] are - wrestling with greed, and wrestling with fears and security, anxieties, wrestling with hatred that's shot through all of us - wars are here to stay.

  Cornel West

  War, Mean, Wrestling

  Source: genius.com

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• All experience is a drug experience. Whether it's mediated by our own [endogenous] drugs, or whether it's mediated by substances that we ingest that are found in plants, cognition, consciousness, the working of the brain, it's all a chemically mediated process. Life itself is a drug experience.

  Dennis McKenna

  Life, Food, Science

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• Practice mediation and concentration exercises, and begin to think more about regaining your sensitivity by avoiding draining situations. Not because of fear but because of intelligence.

  Frederick Lenz

  Exercise, Thinking, Practice

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• Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not “come”, we “are.” Don't strive to become, but be.

  Bruce Lee

  Mirrors, Self, Existential

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• Not till we come to a simple reliance on the blood and mediation of the Saviour, shall we know what it is either to have trust in God, or know what it is to walk before Him without fear, in righteousness and true holiness.

  Thomas Chalmers

  Simple, Blood, Holiness

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 602, 1895.

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• I enjoy mediation. I think the artist's position is often to mend the things we feel are broken. Whether that's between two cultures or two thoughts. We're always trying to reach, trying to expand something.

  K'naan

  Thinking, Artist, Always Trying

  "Discovery: K’Naan" by Royal Young, www.interviewmagazine.com. January 27, 2012.

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• "I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

  Devendra Banhart

  Thinking, Variety

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• the mediation of internal conflicts can be resolved by linkages with other problems.

  Howard Raiffa

  Conflict, Problem, Linkages

  Howard Raiffa (1982). “The Art and Science of Negotiation”, p.183, Harvard University Press

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• Concern for the symbol has completely disappeared from our science . And yet, if one were to give oneself the trouble, one could easily find, in certain parts at least of contemporary mathematics... symbols as clear, as beautiful, and as full of spiritual meaning as that of the circle and mediation. From modern thought to ancient wisdom the path would be short and direct, if one cared to take it.

  Simone Weil

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Circles

  Simone Weil (2002). “The Need for Roots: Prelude to a Declaration of Duties Towards Mankind”, p.286, Psychology Press

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• The cause of Sense, is the External Body, or Object, which presseth the organ proper to each Sense, either immediately, as in theTaste and Touch; or mediately, as in Seeing, Hearing, and Smelling: which pressure, by the mediation of Nerves, and other strings, and membranes of the body, continued inwards to the Brain, and Heart, causeth there a resistance, or counter- pressure, or endeavor of the heart, to deliver it self: which endeavor because Outward, seemeth to be some matter without.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Nature, Heart, Self

  Thomas Hobbes (2008). “Leviathan”, p.21, Simon and Schuster

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• Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously meditate while watching a sunset, listening to music, or participating in athletics.

  Frederick Lenz

  Sunset, Buddhism, Practice

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• When my life does get frantic and busy, there's always time to fit something in, even if it means getting up 15 minutes earlier. I get out of bed, do a few Asanas and then do a little bit of mediation. I just structure it into the day. It's really, really simple.

  Jayne Middlemiss

  Mean, Simple, Bed

  Source: www.bbc.co.uk

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• The photograph suggests that our image of reality is made up of images. It makes explicit the domination of mediation.

  Andy Grundberg

  Reality, Photograph, Made

  Andy Grundberg (1990). “Crisis of the real: writings on photography, 1974-1989”

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