Meditation Quotes - Page 22

• In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.

  Thomas Moore

  Life, Prayer, Ordinary

  Thomas Moore (1992). “Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life”, Harpercollins

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• Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.

  Jeremy Taylor

  Daughter, Prayer, Issues

  Jeremy Taylor (1834). “The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings”, p.12

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• Be still and turn within to the great source.

  Charles Fillmore

  Source, Turns, Stills

  Charles Fillmore (2013). “Prosperity: Spiritual Secrets to an Abundant Life”, p.24, Courier Corporation

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• You can just imagine if everyone on earth did have one day where we just put all our minds together regardless where the force is, as long as it's positive, and just meditate for even a hour that day. And just live nice with them nice meditation. I mean, now, the climate would be nice, the smog would a leave

  Bob Marley

  Nice, Mean, Long

  Bob Marley (2012). “Listen to Bob Marley: The Man, the Music, the Revolution”, Open Road Media

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• The soul of a true christian, as I then wrote my meditations, appeared like such a little white flower as we see in the spring of the year; low and humble on the ground, opening its bosom
  to receive the pleasant beams of the sun’s glory; rejoicing, as it were, in a calm rapture; diffusing around a sweet fragrancy; standing peacefully and lovingly, in the midst of other
  flowers round about; all in like manner opening their bosoms to drink in the light of the sun.

  Jonathan Edwards

  Christian, Sweet, Spring

  Jonathan Edwards, Sereno Edwards Dwight, Edward Hickman (1835). “The works of Jonathan Edwards”, p.12

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• I think most people see drawing as subservient to the subject, a sort of meditation, a studying, a searching observation, in my case, for its own sake.

  Peter Wright

  Thinking, Drawing, People

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• Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness - a more refined version of the problem you already have.

  Sam Harris

  Sight, Problem, Strategy

  "Taming the Mind". Interview with with Dan Harris, samharris.org. September 17, 2014.

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• Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering other's faults. Be like a dead when furious and angry. Be like earth in modesty and humbleness. Be like a sea in tolerance. Be as you are or as you look like.

  Rumi

  Night, Sea, Rivers

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• I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To get into parts of the past I want to recall very vividly, I use a form of directed meditation.

  Marge Piercy

  Memories, Writing, Past

  Interview with Charlotte Templin, margepiercy.com. May 2004.

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• The one and only thing required is to free oneself from the bondage of mind and body alike, putting the Buddha's own seal upon yourself. If you do this as you sit in ecstatic meditation, the whole universe itself scattered through the infinity of space turns into enlightenment. This is what I mean by the Buddha's seal.

  Dogen

  Mean, Space, Mind

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• To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Boys, Doe, Pieces

  Fulton J. Sheen (2004). “The Priest Is Not His Own”, p.69, Ignatius Press

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• In vocal prayer we go to God on foot. In meditation we go to God on horseback. In contemplation we go to God in a jet.

  Fulton J. Sheen

  Prayer, Feet, Contemplation

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• You cultivate the subconscious by meditation, by sitting in silence and by not trying to control your thoughts. Then go someplace where you haven't been before, or go for a walk, a run, and look for signs of grace-an epiphany, something that comes to you.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Running, Silence, Grace

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• Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

  Dalai Lama

  Technique, May, Habit

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• To one given to day-dreaming, and fond of losing himself in reveries, a sea-voyage is full of subjects for meditation; but then they are the wonders of the deep and of the air, and rather tend to abstract the mind from worldly themes.

  Washington Irving

  Dream, Air, Sea

  Washington Irving (2015). “The Sketch Book of Geoffrey Crayon, Gent. – The Complete Collection: The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Rip Van Winkle, The Voyage, Roscoe, A Royal Poet, A Sunday in London and many more (Illustrated)”, p.16, e-artnow

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• You may have the best vegetables, you may be the most capable cook, but, if the copper vessel in which you prepare the vegetable soup is not tinned, the concretion you cook will be highly poisonous! So 'tin' your heart with truth, right conduct, peace and divine love; it will then become a vesssel fit for repeating holy name or symbols, meditation, religious vows, pilgrimage, ritualistic worship and the other dishes that you prepare in it.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Religious, Heart, Names

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• Regard the heart as a vast field. Use the mind as a plough. Treat the gunas (qualities) as bullocks. Use the intelligence (Viveka) as a whip. With these aids, cultivate the field of your heart. What is the crop that is to be grown in it? Sathya, Dharma, Santhi and Prema are the crops. Bhakthi is the rain, meditation is the manure, Brahmananda is the crop.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Rain, Heart, Mind

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• Millions of people are joined in the knowledge that writing brings insight and calm in the same way that prayer, meditation, or a long walk in the woods does. They have discovered that writing allows the racing mind to move at the pace of pen and paper or the pace of typing on the waiting screen - that journal writing is a spiritual practice.

  Christina Baldwin

  Spiritual, Prayer, Moving

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• Someone was sitting in front of a sunflower, watching the sunflower, a cup of sun, and so I tried it too. It was wonderful; I felt the whole universe in the sunflower. That was my experience. Sunflower meditation. A wonderful confidence appeared. You can see the whole universe in a flower.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Flower, Sitting, Cups

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• I have been challenged by the concept of meditation ... I decided recently to accept the invitation of a friend to experience the sheer silence of meditation-undirected prayer. ... I had before only sensed intellectually ... But by going deep into prayer I could almost feel it.

  Laurie Beth Jones

  Prayer, Silence, Accepting

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• Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.

  Greg Cipes

  Art, Halloween, Turtles

  "Interview with Greg Cipes, TV's Michelangelo". Interview with David Burszan, www.denofgeek.com. November 4, 2013.

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• Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.

  H. E Davey

  Yoga, Listening, Mind

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• Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Being Yourself, Knows

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• Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler thoughts. A morning seasoning will secure us for all the day.

  Stephen Charnock

  Morning, Heaven, Soul

  Stephen Charnock (1866). “The complete works of Stephen Charnock, B.D.”, p.307

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• One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

  Plato

  Beautiful, Philosophy, Ocean

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