Meditation Quotes - Page 26

• What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began his ministry by proclaiming that this holy kingdom was within us and among us.

  Morton T. Kelsey

  Jesus, Mean, Doors

  Morton T. Kelsey (1997). “The Other Side of Silence: Meditation for the Twenty-First Century”, p.11, Paulist Press

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• The most common way people could do time-travel would be a form of meditation in which you don't get caught up in your thoughts and don't make patterns of logical consequences follow as a result of your thinking process. It's very hard for most of us to do that if we think about it. But if you start to watch the process by which things come into being, and you begin to witness from the point of view of watching the words form, then you're beginning to move into the non-temporal mindset, or that which is free of time.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Moving, Thinking, Views

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it’s the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore.

  Moby

  Spiritual, Dog, Sex

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really big part of my life. But it's sometimes hard to talk about. There are so many people in the world who don't live in Southern California and don't spend their time meditating.

  Moby

  Reading, Practice, California

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.

  Moby

  Spiritual, Emotional, Meditation Practice

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• Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the meditation aspect of it; you don't wind up with any orthopedic injuries. But when you swim at a world class level for hours and hours - the loneness of the long distance runner.

  Diana Nyad

  Sports, Distance, Exercise

  "Diana Nyad chats about her Cuba to Key West swim". Live Chat, live.washingtonpost.com. May 26, 2011.

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• The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

  David Lynch

  Lying, True Happiness, Reason

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• I visualise what I want through meditation. The process of meditating is a great way of making sure I have my priorities sorted. It's not about money - I focus on my career and the kind of film projects I want to do. Film-making is a passion for me, and my mantra is that you should do what you love, and the money will follow.

  Shilpa Shetty

  Passion, Careers, Priorities

  "Shilpa Shetty: 'My spiritual approach to finance'". Interview with Mark Anstead, www.telegraph.co.uk. November 14, 2008.

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• Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation.

  Dalai Lama

  Practice, Miserable, Pleasant

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• Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present.

  Rajneesh

  Past, Mind

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• The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Garden, Views

  Samuel Johnson (1824). “Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.255

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• Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Silence, Speak

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• When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.

  Choa Kok Sui

  Expectations, Meditating, Happens

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• The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Heart, House, Ego

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• I believe in meditation - it's a good tool to centre yourself, but unfortunately, I'm too lazy to do it. It's very hard work, and I prefer to watch 'Nothing To Declare' on TV!

  Helen Mirren

  Believe, Hard Work, Lazy

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• Don't think that only sitting with the eyes closed is practice. If you do think this way, then quickly change your thinking. Steady practice is keeping mindful in every posture, whether sitting, walking, standing or lying down. When coming out of sitting, don't think that you're coming out of meditation, but that you are only changing postures. If you reflect in this way, you will have peace. Wherever you are, you will have this attitude of practice with you constantly. You will have a steady awareness within yourself.

  Ajahn Chah

  Attitude, Lying, Eye

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• Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life.

  Pope John Paul II

  Spiritual, Prayer, Heart

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• What I wish to show by these feats of strength is that prayer and meditation can definitely increase one's outer capacities. I hope that by doing this I will be able to inspire many people to pray and meditate sincerely as part of their regular daily routine. my message is that if one needs strength, then uncovering one's inner strength through prayer and meditation is the fastest and most effective way to get it.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Prayer, People, Inspire

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• As you are now you are just a liquid phenomenon, changing every moment, nothing stable. Really you cannot claim any "I" -- you don't have one. You are many "I"s just in a flow, a riverlike flow. You are a crowd, not an individual yet. But meditation can make you an individual.

  Rajneesh

  Liquid, Crowds, Flow

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• My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling.

  Rajneesh

  Thinking, Feelings, Method

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• Sannyas is only a declaration. The work is meditation. In one single word, my religion is complete, and that is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Single Word, Declaration

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• Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Natural, Lost

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• To be here and now, you have to be in meditation, beyond mind.

  Rajneesh

  Mind, Here And Now

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• Money is congealed energy and releasing it releases life possibilities ... Money experienced as life energy is indeed a meditation, and letting it flow out instead of hoarding it is a mode of participation in the life of others.

  Joseph Campbell

  Energy, Hoarding, Flow

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• I have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a healthy hobby I think. I can do a few tricks, I can hoop from my neck and shoulders, and I can do a few moves, a few tricks! I can walk through the hoop whilst it's spinning. I feel like there's definitely an interest in promoting the hula-hoop as an important pastime!

  Sufjan Stevens

  Moving, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: thequietus.com

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