Meditation Quotes - Page 29

• Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

  Patanjali

  Yoga, Mind, Abiding

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• Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness, lust and hate are to be stilled by meditation, by letting heart and mind dwell in spiritual life, by lifting up the heart to the strong, silent life above, which rests in the stillness of eternal love, and needs no harsh vibration to convince it of true being.

  Patanjali

  Spiritual, Strong, Hate

  Patanjali (2013). “The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.29, Lulu Press, Inc

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• There is a true Buddha in family life; there is a real Tao in everyday activities. If people can be sincere and harmonious, promoting communication with a cheerful demeanor and friendly words, that is much better than formal meditation practice.

  Zicheng Hong

  Real, Communication, Meditation Practice

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• Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

  Allan Lokos

  Inspiration, Reality, Practice

  Allan Lokos (2010). “Pocket Peace: Effective Practices for Enlightened Living”, p.100, Penguin

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• That's why it's called a practice. We have to practice a practice if it is to be of value.

  Allan Lokos

  Yoga, Practice, Ifs

  Allan Lokos (2012). “Patience: The Art of Peaceful Living”, p.79, Penguin

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• I have amethyst geodes by my meditation - yoga room and large rose quartz throughout my back garden.

  Miranda Kerr

  Yoga, Garden, Rose

  "Love Letters: Miranda Tells All". Harper’s Bazaar Interview, www.harpersbazaar.com. February 24, 2016.

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• With all the yoga and meditation that I do, when the chaos happens it happens. But I'm not as affected as a lot of people - I don't react as much. I just let things drip off my back a little bit.

  Donna Karan

  Yoga, People, Littles

  "Donna Karan on Meditation, Fashion - and Love". Interview with Mayu Saini, wwd.com. March 28, 2016.

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• I like how time goes on set. It's almost like time on an airplane or something where people are together. It's a different, very trippy kind of time, I find, because you're together in imaginary time where you're out of time. You're called upon to be present and honor what can happen in the moment. And the whole day can go like that. The whole day can be a kind of meditation.

  Jeff Goldblum

  Airplane, People, Honor

  Interview with Fred Armisen, www.interviewmagazine.com. June 21, 2016.

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• Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.

  Gerald Nicosia

  Mom, Hero, Book

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• If we get away from the lazy and fuzzy thinking that is like a poison in our society - if we get away from all the bad television that we tend to watch - and begin to take up serious meditation and other sacred exercises, we will have a real revolution of consciousness. If that happens, the world will change by itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Real, Exercise, Thinking

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Believe, Conscious

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

  Marianne Williamson

  Spiritual, Light, Practice

  Source: scottlondon.com

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• I have been meditating for many years now, but I think for quite a few years my relationship with meditation was very intellectual. I would do meditation for all the usual things that you would think about, to be more calm, be more productive, relieve stress.

  Karan Bajaj

  Stress, Thinking, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I think meditation became truly a means to a deeper connection as I was searching for a deeper truth within myself. Meditation became almost more spiritual than material in nature over the last two or three years and it has deepened a lot as a result of that.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Mean, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.

  Karan Bajaj

  Morning, Yoga, Night

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become productive and more at peace. In the East, you think of the deep spiritual practices as a journey of complete dissolution of the self, the ego.

  Karan Bajaj

  Spiritual, Journey, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In the West, it is the opposite, like you are using these practices [meditation and yoga ] to further your ego by being more productive, being more this, and getting more out of your work and earning more money. In the East, the whole idea is that you are dissolving your essence through these practices.

  Karan Bajaj

  Yoga, Essence, Opposites

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• In the year that I take off, I don't have any goals. I just surrender to experiences like traveling or learning yoga and meditation or just living in a completely random place like Mongolia or Portugal or Bhutan. Then when I come back, I am much more intuitive, creative, right-brained. That kind of system has been working very well for me.

  Karan Bajaj

  Yoga, Bhutan, Years

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• My path, my life, my career has really been a journey from moving from, in a sense, darkness to light. From pain to joy through the experience of yoga and meditation. It's an ongoing adventure that's unfolding every day.

  MC Yogi

  Pain, Moving, Yoga

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.

  MC Yogi

  Yoga, Practice, Mind

  Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality.

  Rajashree Choudhury

  Yoga, Practice, Benefits

  "The U.S. Yoga Federation Founder + President Rajashree Choudhury". Interview with Zoë Kors. Part I, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Meditation, yoga, and walks are all ways to regulate our stress and reconnect.

  Arianna Huffington

  Stress, Yoga, Way

  "Arianna Huffington: Measuring Success Based on a Third Metric". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises like meditation.

  Arianna Huffington

  Exercise, Thinking, Mindfulness

  "Arianna Huffington on Redefining Success, Creating Balance and Making Good Decisions". Interview with Gina Murdock, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Like everyone else, I get swept along just trying to keep up with that endlessly growing to-do list, but I do my best to treat the day as one big meditation or symphony.

  Tohoru Masamune

  Symphony, Trying, Growing

  "Tohoru Masamune. On pursuing dreams and embracing chaos". Interview with Maranda Pleasant for Origin Magazine: Issue 20, September 8, 2014.

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• Learning to focus attention and concentration is very useful; meditation can help you do that.

  Andrew Weil

  Focus, Attention, Helping

  "Dr. Andrew Weil: On Changing the Current Paradigm in Healthcare". Interview with Robert Piper, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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