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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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In meditation take care not to impose anything on the mind, or to tax it. When you meditate there should be no effort to control, and no attempt to be peaceful. Don't be overly solemn or feel that you are taking part in some special ritual; let go even of the idea that you are meditating. Let your body remain as it is, your breath as you find it, and remain in your natural condition of unchanging pure awareness.

Sogyal Rinpoche

Letting Go, Ideas, Effort

FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Apr 26, 2012

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I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

Ray Dalio

New York, Twenties, Heard

"Ray Dalio Explains How The Beatles Inspired Him To Meditate" by Courtney Comstock, www.businessinsider.com. October 26, 2010.

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In place of our exhaustion and spiritual fatigue, God will give us rest. All He asks is that we come to Him...that we spend a while thinking about Him, meditating on Him, talking to Him, listening in silence, occupying ourselves with Him - totally and thoroughly lost in the hiding place of His presence.

Charles R. Swindoll

Spiritual, Prayer, Thinking

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For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become completely absorbed, then the transformation will occur.

Tenzin Palmo

Practice, Mind, Transformation

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When you are meditating, thinking about things in this world is not going to help you. Instead, forget about everything for a while and look at something that is perfect, this will help you deal with the world better.

Frederick Lenz

Thinking, Perfect, Looks

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In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between the world of opposites watching your 'play' in the world.Let the world be as it is and learn to rock with the waves.

Joseph Campbell

Eye, Rocks, Opposites

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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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Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in your heart is considered normal and conservative.

Dean Ornish

Heart, Exercise, Vegetarian Diet

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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.

Mark Twain

Work, Writing, Years

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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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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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Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.

Yogaswami

Meditation, Silence, Soil

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I do a lot of reading, meditating, and praying to stay as grounded as I can be in this crazy world.

Jada Pinkett Smith

Crazy, Reading, World

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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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With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day we are helped to assimilate the Gospel, so that it shapes all our lives.

Pope Benedict XVI

Rosary, Shapes, Mystery

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So what you are doing, be aware, observe it, and then go on meditating. Soon you will begin to feel the change. Now there is no possessiveness in relationship. By and by, possessiveness disappears. And when possessiveness is not there, relationship has a beauty of its own. When possessiveness is there, everything becomes dirty, ugly, inhuman.

Rajneesh

Relationship, Dirty, Goes On

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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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If you seem to yourself to be lacking in certain necessary qualities, if your character seems to lack strength, ask God to give you what you need - and He will. You can build any quality into your mentality by meditating upon that quality every day.

Emmet Fox

Motivational, Encouragement, Character

Emmet Fox (1946). “Make your life worth while”, Harper San Francisco

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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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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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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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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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Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable.

Paramahansa Yogananda

Reality, Giving, Meditation

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