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• Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to shake. Sorry about that.

  Deepak Chopra

  Sorry, Powerful, Stupid

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• {While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state or not. There is no effort, only rich understanding, wakefulness, and unshakable certainty. When I am in the nature of mind, the ordinary mind is no longer there. There is no need to sustain or confirm a sense of being: I simply am.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Effort, Understanding, Doubt

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• No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes to a half-hour every day is a good amount of time to restore a sense of serenity.

  Sarah Ban Breathnach

  Serenity, Needs, Half

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• Pray and learn to pray! Deepen your knowledge of the Word of the Living God by reading and meditating on the Scriptures.

  Pope John Paul II

  Reading, Scripture, Praying

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• That was my childhood. I grew up with the monks, studying Sanskrit and meditating for hours in the morning and hours in the evening, and going once a day to beg for food.

  Satish Kumar

  Morning, Childhood, Fatherhood

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• I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or else grave-faced and arrogant, concentrating on absolutely nothing, convinced that they're in touch with God or with the Goddess. So instead, let's listen to some music together.

  Paulo Coelho

  Music, Eye, People

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• Transcendental Meditation gives you what you need, when you need it. It's literally changed my life. Some of the clearest ideas or epiphanies I've had in life happened during or after meditating. Everything becomes clear and the truth starts coming out.

  Hugh Jackman

  Ideas, Giving, Meditation

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• Necessary, since every moment in our lives is marked by death, like a shadow from another realm, it appear to us like a vanishing point for everything. How can one meditate on live without meditating too on its brevity, its precariousness, its fragility?

  Andre Comte-Sponville

  Shadow, Fragility, Vanishing

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• Meditation is not hard to understand. Anyone who knows how to worry knows how to meditate. Worriers are skilled in the meditation process but are meditating on the wrong kind of thoughts.

  Jim Berg

  Worry, Meditation, Kind

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• By meditating on affectionate love and wishing love for just one moment we accumulate greater merit than we would by giving food three times every day to all those who are hungry in the world.

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

  Giving, Wish, Merit

  Geshe Kelsang Gyatso (2011). “Modern Buddhism: The Path of Compassion and Wisdom - Volume 1 Sutra”, p.64, Tharpa Publications US

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• What are you to do? You are always to remember that you are the child of a Great Father. You must not think that you are a sinner, that you are a degraded person. If you think that you are a sinner, it means you are meditating on sin! When sin has become the object of your meditation, you will become a sinner, because a person becomes just like the object of his or her ideation. We become the object of our meditation.

  Prabhat Ranjan Sarkar

  Children, Father, Mean

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• My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

  Kristin Hersh

  Brother, Wall, Years

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• We cannot learn to love other tourists,-the laws of nature forbid it,-but, meditating soberly on the impossibility of their loving us, we may reach some common platform of tolerance, some common exchange of recognition and amenity.

  Agnes Repplier

  Travel, Law, Tolerance

  Agnes Repplier (1904). “Compromises”

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• Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating. It is not that once the blood has circulated it is finished, once you breathe there is no more need of it. No, you have to breathe and you have to go on meditating; every moment you will need it.

  Rajneesh

  Blood, Breathing, Meditation

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• A ship in dock, surrounded by quays and the walls of warehouses, has the appearance of a prisoner meditating upon freedom in the sadness of a free spirit put under restraint.

  Joseph Conrad

  Wall, Sadness, Free Spirit

  Joseph Conrad (2015). “Under Western Eyes (Unabridged Deluxe Edition): An Intriguing Tale of Espionage and Betrayal in Czarist Russia From the Renowned Author of Heart of Darkness, Nostromo & The Secret Agent (Including Author’s Memoirs, Letters & Critical Essays)”, p.475, e-artnow

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• One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

  Hugh Jackman

  Years, Drawing, Energy

  FaceBook post by Hugh Jackman from Sep 04, 2013

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• The rishis of old attained the Knowledge of Brahman. One cannot have this so long as there is the slightest trace of worldliness. How hard the rishis laboured ! Early in the morning they would go away from the hermitage, and would spend the whole day in solitude, meditating on Brahman. At night they would return to the hermitage and eat a little fruit or roots. They kept their mind aloof from the objects of sight, hearing, touch, and other things of a worldly nature. Only thus did they realize Brahman as their own inner conciousness.

  Ramakrishna

  Morning, Night, Sight

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• You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your own mind."

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Mind

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• If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying to skip steps. You are using power incorrectly. Your motives are not pure. You don't vibrate quickly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happiness, Buddhism, Trying

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• From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts.

  Mike White

  Stressful

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• I have had moments where I've had mental-health issues and I've felt like yoga and meditating and reading these Buddhist self-help books actually really help.

  Mike White

  Buddhist, Yoga, Book

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• There are those who feel that meditation is unrealistic or takes them out of the world, and if that was your experience with mediation, you weren't meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Meditation, World

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• Try to find a teacher of meditation and meditate at least once a week in a group with people who meditate a little better than you do. It will inspire you to keep meditating.

  Frederick Lenz

  Teacher, Buddhism, People

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• The brain has an attentional mode called the "mind wandering mode" that was only recently identified. This is when thoughts move seamlessly from one to another, often to unrelated thoughts, without you controlling where they go. This brain state acts as a neural reset button, allowing us to come back to our work with a refreshed perspective. Different people find they enter this mode in different ways: reading, a walk in nature, looking at art, meditating, and napping. A 15-minute nap can produce the equivalent of a 10-point boost in IQ.

  Daniel Levitin

  Art, Moving, Reading

  "Daniel J. Levitin Q&A: 'We've created more information in the past few years than in all of human history before us'". Interview with Lisa O'Kelly, www.theguardian.com. January 18, 2015.

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• The force that drives the green fuse, as Dylan Thomas said, cannot be understood. So self-discovery is to accept your daily meditation, to observe yourself meditating and not be concerned with the results.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Discovery, Self

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