Meditation Practice Quotes - Page 3

• Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Life, Trying, Systematic

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Meditation And Yoga, Use

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Oct 13, 2013

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• Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.

  Sylvia Boorstein

  Life Changing, Heart, Mindfulness

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• The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Home, Practice, Meditation

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  Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Mean

  Quoted in The Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, ed. Mary Lutyens (1970)

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• Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Mind, Brake

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• The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.

  Confucius

  Spiritual, Yoga, Men

  "Out of the Blue: Delight Comes Into Our Lives". Book by Mark Victor Hansen, Barbara Nichols, and Patty Hansen, 1996.

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• Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.

  Richard Gere

  Inspiration, Reality, Meditation And Yoga

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• Meditation is listening to the divine within

  Edgar Cayce

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Listening

  Edgar Cayce (2010). “Meditation, Prayer & Affirmations”, p.13, ARE Press

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• Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Mind, Mountain, Sitting

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• Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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  You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.

  Franz Kafka

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  "The Zürau Aphorisms". Book by Franz Kafka, 1931.

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• Meditation creates more time than it takes.

  Peter McWilliams

  Yoga, More Time, Daily Meditation

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

  Amit Ray

  Inspiration, Soul, Suffering

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• One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

  Elizabeth Lesser

  Art, Doe, Wake Up

  Elizabeth Lesser (2008). “The Seeker's Guide: Making Your Life a Spiritual Adventure”, p.115, Ballantine Books

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• The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Mind, Rays

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.

  Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

  Inspiration, Yoga Practice, Meditation And Yoga

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• It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.

  Pema Chodron

  Wisdom, Inspiration, Helpful

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.28, Shambhala Publications

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• We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspiration, Thinking, Waiting

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.76, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

  Adi Shankara

  Inspiration, Reality, Attachment

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• If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiration, Boiler Room, Rooms

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• The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Hurt, Mean, Mind

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• Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote it in meditation to the task of freeing itself from illusion, and we will find that, with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Dark, Discipline, Confusion

  Sogyal Rinpoche (2009). “Glimpse After Glimpse: Daily Reflections on Living and Dying”, p.11, Harper Collins

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• Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Inspiration, Mindfulness, Needs

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Sep 16, 2013

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• The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Inspiration, Sides, Meditation Mind

  Bhante Gunaratana, Henepola Gunaratana (2011). “Mindfulness in Plain English: 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.10, Simon and Schuster

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