Meditation Quotes - Page 19

• You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

  Rob Bell

  Prayer, Yoga, Practice

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• Meditation is the art of dying. Then your ego will be shocked. And it is also truer to cal I it the art of dying, because you r ego is not going to grow, your ego is going to die in meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Art, Ego, Dying

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• If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone taught me, it's something I've done my whole life, and liked doing, and it made me feel like nothing.

  Laurie Anderson

  Confused, Fall, Sky

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The real glory of meditation lies not in any method but in its continual living experience of presence, in its bliss, clarity, peace, and most important of all, complete absence of grasping. The diminishing of grasping in yourself is a sign that you are becoming freer of yourself. And the more you experience this freedom, the clearer the sign that the ego and the hopes and fears that keep it alive are dissolving, and the closer you will come to the infinitely generous "wisdom of egolessness."

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Peace, Real, Lying

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• Meditation is listening the inner song. The song of Love, Peace and Light

  Amit Ray

  Love, Song, Peace

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• Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing nothing. I prefer the zen of paying attention, such as the meditation of yoga flow, or walking meditations. I also consider singing, surfing and gardening to very meditative.

  Jason Mraz

  Song, Yoga, Walking Meditation

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• It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Important, Hours

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• After meditation, it is a good idea to bow and offer your meditation to god, to that stillness and perfection that is existence. Feel that you are giving your meditation away.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Ideas, Giving

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• At the end of each meditation session, bow your head toward the ground. Give away your meditation to the universe. Whether you feel you have done well or poorly, simply give your efforts to the universe.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Giving, Effort

  Frederick Lenz (2014). “Snowboarding to Nirvana: A Novel”, p.104, St. Martin's Press

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• Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Judging, Periods

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• How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Nice, Buddhism, Giving

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• Don't judge your meditations. Don't rate them. The physical mind cannot tell how well you did. As long as you are sitting there trying, something will happen.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Long, Judging

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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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• Each time you meditate you have the possibility of completely changing your life in one meditation. If you meditate with your whole heart and your whole soul, you will become light itself.

  Frederick Lenz

  Heart, Buddhism, Light

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• Meditation is the pathway to enlightenment. Move the ego aside and be still, open, clear, bright and fully conscious.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Ego

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• To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also the sound of existence. You need to feel that which lies beyond your awareness field, and that which is within it.

  Frederick Lenz

  Art, Lying, Buddhism

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• Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind out of the mind.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Breathing, Mind

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• If you can bring earnestness to your meditation, you will find that happiness is something that will run through your life constantly.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Ifs

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• Sometimes people start to meditate and they get a headache. It's because they're trying too hard. You're pulling in too much energy.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Trying

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• When you meditate, you focus to clear the mind and to bring the willpower together. But then, toward the end of the session let go, just become eternity.

  Frederick Lenz

  Letting Go, Buddhism, Focus

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• Real winning and losing all takes place at the meditation table. This is where the battles are. Winning is stopping thought. Losing is sitting there and being subjected to all kinds of ridiculous thoughts

  Frederick Lenz

  Real, Buddhism, Winning

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• Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Winning, Mind

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• In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all the confusion out of your mind, all the heaviness, all the emotional upsets, all the impressions that you have picked up since your last meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Moving, Buddhism, Emotional

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• The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Practice, Needs

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• The divine within you is stronger than anything that is without you. Therefore, be not afraid of anything. Rely on your own Inner Self, the Divinity within you. Tap the source through looking within. Improve yourself. Build your character. Purify the heart. Develop the divine virtues. Eradicate evil traits. Conquer all that is base in you. Endeavor to attain all that is worthy and noble. Make the lower nature the servant of the higher through discipline, Tapas, self-restraint and meditation. This is the beginning of your freedom.

  Sivananda

  Character, Heart, Self

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