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• When I started meditating, even doing yoga, I felt like it was hard to allow myself to develop any other kind of practice [outside of Judaism], like I was somehow being untrue to my heritage, and that was something I had to get over and was probably the greatest revelation to me.

  Dani Shapiro

  Yoga, Practice, Heritage

  "Book Release: Devotion". Interview with Kari Wethington, www.elle.com. January 7, 2010.

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• It's hard to keep the energy going sometimes, that's why I like to go with a group of people who are meditating. I love meditating in groups, it's fantastic.

  Donna Karan

  People, Groups, Energy

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• Brilliant thoughts flow with a life of their own to a dedicated reasoning predator up in a tree with a bow and arrow half the year meditating soulfully in anticipation to kill unsuspecting meat-infested herbivores.

  Ted Nugent

  Arrows, Years, Tree

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• I have been meditating for many years now, but I think for quite a few years my relationship with meditation was very intellectual. I would do meditation for all the usual things that you would think about, to be more calm, be more productive, relieve stress.

  Karan Bajaj

  Stress, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.

  John Feldmann

  Breathing, Meditation, Helpful

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of high meditation. As I came out of the meditation and became aware of the sense world the world around me I knew that I had a new name. And the name, of course, was Rama.

  Frederick Lenz

  Ocean, Names, California

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• If I can have an effect on influential women and men, if they seek me out because they are interested in self-knowledge and the fun of meditating, then I'm glad to help. That's why I'm here.

  Frederick Lenz

  Fun, Men, Self

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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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• The average individual spends many, many lifetimes meditating and seeking and chewing bubblegum and doing things like that to attain the experience of samadhi.

  Frederick Lenz

  Average, Lifetime, Individual

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• The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Philosophy, Practice, Meditation

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• I observe many people who say they are meditating, but I sure don't see them meditating. They sit and touch a lot of people, places and things psychically, but they sure don't meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  People

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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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• 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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• Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind, it is also developing control of one's life and gaining wisdom.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Mind

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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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• I love my life, and I love the people that I'm connected to and I love my family and I love what I do, I'm passionate about performing and being onstage. That and meditating and hugging a dog are the only three times I am absolutely sure I will never get a depressed moment. So if I could go from dog-hugging to meditation to being onstage, I'd be good.

  Rick Springfield

  Dog, People, Love Of My Life

  "Rick Springfield On The Vietnam War: "I Killed Somebody"". "George Stroumboulopoulos Tonight", www.cbc.ca.

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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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• The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they'll be doing it for a few months, and they will begin to change, but the experience is so subtle that they're not even aware of it.

  David Lynch

  People, Interesting, Months

  "An Ocean of Solutions". Interview with Chris Grosso, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• I really cherish having my private time and being alone and being able to decompress. It's my own version of meditating.

  Tim Gunn

  Able, Cherish, My Own

  "Project Runway's Tim Gunn". Interview with Tony Peregrin, chicagoist.com. September 8, 2010.

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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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