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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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• 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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• When you are meditating, after you've meditated on the yantra or candle flame, simply try feeling gratitude. Sit and feel grateful to existence because you are meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Gratitude, Grateful, Flames

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• If you start picking up other people's impressions while you are meditating, then instead of clearing yourself, you are just going to completely glom yourself up to the point where there is no meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  People, Meditation, Impression

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Meditation is not this kind of spacey stuff that makes it difficult to orient your life. If that's your experience of meditation, you're not meditating. You're tapping into the lower astral planes, which is not a healthy place for human beings to tap.

  Frederick Lenz

  Meditation, Healthy, Stuff

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• How do you deal with meditating when you stop breathing? The trick is to meditate just a little higher and you won't even know that you're not breathing.

  Frederick Lenz

  Breathing, Littles, Tricks

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• Meditating everyday is essential. If you meditate every day and learn to control and stop your thoughts, you will become psychic.

  Frederick Lenz

  Psychics, Everyday, Essentials

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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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• 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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• When you are not meditating, eliminate hate, doubt, fear, anxiety, negative thoughts and emotions that limit your consciousness, that bind you to a sense of self, of ego.

  Frederick Lenz

  Hate, Buddhism, Self

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• While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of your thoughts. This traffic of your thoughts and the verbosity of your mind are simply part of the basic chatter that goes on in the universe. Just let it go through.

  Chogyam Trungpa

  Gossip, Mind, Let It Go

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• I went through two schools of acting but I learned more about acting from meditating and from my marshall arts teacher.

  Forest Whitaker

  Teacher, Art, Teaching

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• A cook she certainly was, in the very bone and centre of her soul. Not a....turkey....in the barn-yard but looked grave when they saw her approaching, and seemed evidently to be reflecting on their latter end; and certain it was that she was always meditating on trussing, stuffing and roasting, to a degree that was calculated to inspire terror in any reflecting fowl living.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Turkeys, Inspire, Soul

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• Spending more time with friends and family costs nothing. Nor does walking, cooking, meditating, making love, reading or eating dinner at the table instead of in front of the television. Simply resisting the urge to hurry is free.

  Carl Honore

  Reading, Making Love, Cooking

  Carl Honoré (2004). “In praise of slow: how a worldwide movement is challenging the cult of speed”, A.A. Knopf Canada

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• Unless you're fond of hollering you don't make great conversations on a running cycle. Instead you spend your time being aware of things and meditating on them. On sights and sounds, on the mood of the weather and things remembered, on the machine and the countryside you're in, thinking about things at great leisure and length without being hurried and without feeling you're losing time.

  Robert M. Pirsig

  Running, Thinking, Sight

  Robert M. Pirsig (2009). “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Real meditation is not done by us. It is done by our Inner Pilot, the Supreme, who is constantly meditating in and through us. We are just the vessel, and we are allowing Him to fill us with His whole Consciousness.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Real, Meditation, Done

  Sri Chinmoy (1978). “Meditation: Man-perfection in God-satisfaction”, p.5, Aum Publications

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• I was drawn to be very solitary as a scholar. I lived a very quiet life, aloof, with my books, with my walks in nature, meditating, and of course with my teacher.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Book, Rama

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