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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Where a man has a passion for meditating without the capacity of thinking, a particular idea fixes itself fast, and soon creates a mental disease.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Passion, Men, Thinking

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• That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on Him or on the seer, the Self, there is a mental vibration 'I' to which all are reduced. Tracing the source of 'I', the primal 'I-I' alone remains over, and it is inexpressible. The seat of Realisation is within and the seeker cannot find it as an object outside him. That seat is bliss and is the core of all beings. Hence it is called the Heart. The only useful purpose of the present birth is to turn within and realise it. There is nothing else to do.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Heart, Self, Purpose

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• But I deal with this by meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind myself to live simply and not overindulge, which is a constant battle in a material world.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Humanity, Understanding, Battle

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• By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.

  Aberjhani

  Spiritual, Integrity, Meditation

  Aberjhani (2014). “Journey through the Power of the Rainbow: Quotations from a Life Made Out of Poetry”, p.67, Lulu.com

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• The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Change, Spiritual, Creating

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2005). “Practical Spirituality: The Spiritual Basis of Nonviolent Communication”, p.32, PuddleDancer Press

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• Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by meditation. If somebody is a painter and he starts meditating, his painting will have a sudden jump, it will become tremendously profound - because whatsoever you paint reflects your mind. If the mind goes deeper, your painting will go deeper. You paint your mind. What else can you paint? You paint yourself.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Creativity, People

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• The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity with the universe of things, was infusing into his being the true essence of civilization.

  Luther Standing Bear

  Yoga, Men, Essence

  Luther Standing Bear (2006). “Land of the Spotted Eagle”, p.250, U of Nebraska Press

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• When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on, you are separate from it. That has become the object and you have become the subject.

  Rajneesh

  Meditation, Ego, Mind

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• Unless we're very intentional about meditating on these truths [that show God's love], they slip from our thoughts like misty dreams that evaporate in the morning light. That's why Luther said we must take heed then, to embrace...the love and kindness of God...[and to] daily excercise [our] faith therein, entertain no doubt of God's love and kindness.

  Elyse Fitzpatrick

  Dream, Morning, Kindness

  Elyse M. Fitzpatrick “Because He Loves Me: How Christ Transforms Our Daily Life”, Crossway

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• Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Spiritual, Sweet, Talking

  "What We Nurture". "On Being" with Krista Tippett, onbeing.org. May 9, 2013.

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• Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate

  Jet Li

  Motivational, Art, Thinking

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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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• Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

  Karl Rahner

  Prayer, Meditation, Causes

  Karl Rahner (1997). “The Need and the Blessing of Prayer”, p.1, Liturgical Press

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• He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life.

  Boris Pasternak

  Death, Art, Creating Life

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• The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Order, World, Able

  Matthieu Ricard (2010). “Why Meditate?”, p.12, Hay House, Inc

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• According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to music, spending time with friends or family, getting a massage, going outside of ra walk, meditating or doing yoga, and spending time with a creative hobby. The least effective strategies are gambling, shopping, smoking, drinking, eating, playing video games, surfing the Internet, and watching TV or movies for more than two hours.

  Kelly McGonigal

  Sports, Religious, Stress

  "The Willpower Instinct: How Self-Control Works, Why It Matters, and What You Can Do to Get More of It". Book by Kelly McGonigal, www.businessinsider.com. December 29, 2011.

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