Meditation Quotes - Page 31

• I have done a fair bit of meditation practice, but I think through climbing it's definitely an easier way for me to tap into that mental state of being present and in the moment, very in tune with your body. But not in an intellectual way. Just really responding to the moment, where you don't have time to think.

  Chris Sharma

  Thinking, Climbing, Meditation Practice

  "Natural Born Climber: Chris Sharma". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm a firm believer in slowing down to improve my state of mind when I'm training, and yoga and meditation have been paramount to my success in this way.

  Amanda Beard

  Yoga, Mind, Training

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• My performance has improved dramatically from yoga and meditation. No athlete ever dominated by sticking to one sport all the time.

  Amanda Beard

  Sports, Yoga, Athlete

  "Olympic Gold Medalist Amanda Beard on Competing, Cross-Training & Children". Interview with Chelsea Logan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.

  Dani Shapiro

  Practice, Showing Up, Twenties

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Running is like a form of meditation for me and a great way to clear my head.

  Sally Fitzgibbons

  Running, Way, Form

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself.

  Daphne Zuniga

  "Daphne Zuniga Opens Up About Mindfulness And Finding Love In ORIGIN Magazine". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 13, 2013.

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• Through meditation and gentle cooperation, the body will heal itself with little or no effort.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Heal Itself, Effort, Body

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• I don't have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.

  Mike Colter

  Focus, Routine, Used

  "Mike Colter: On Meditation, Good Writing, and Passion Projects". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 9, 2014.

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• I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation.

  Caroline Myss

  Fall, Thinking, People

  "A Conversation with Caroline Myss". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• [Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went out and felt the ills of the community around you. Instead of retreating to a monastery, you were out in the streets working. And he's been a great help to me, just reading his book, so I don't feel helpless about what I can do about all the violence around me.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Book, Reading, Buddhism

  Source: quod.lib.umich.edu

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• Meditation is one of the most direct and powerful ways to awaken to who we really are and to experience happiness as a state of consciousness that already exists within us.

  Deepak Chopra

  Powerful, Way, Consciousness

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• Meditation refreshes our mind and helps us let go of old patterns. We spend less time dwelling on the past or worrying about the future; instead, we are focused on the present.

  Deepak Chopra

  Letting Go, Past, Dwelling

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• Yoga is more a state than a methodology. A state where there is nothing missing. You don't feel like you have to grab this or grab that in order to be complete or full. From wringing out the body and the mind, from sitting in meditation, from studying scripture, from selfless service.

  Colleen Saidman

  Yoga, Order, Missing

  "A Conversation with Rodney Yee and Colleen Saidman Yee". Interview with Rachel P. Goldstein, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• You cannot fail at meditation.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Failing

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• You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion, that's considered good meditation.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Thinking, Compassion, Mindfulness

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness meditation. It varies from person to person of course, but for many, their practice of mindfulness will bring along old habits of self-judgment and ruthless criticism, so it is not actually mindfulness.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Kindness, Practice, Old Habits

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or new corporations or foundations or non-profits bringing mindfulness to work.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Compassion, Practice, Corporations

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• I am totally amazed at the spread of interest in meditation. When I first came back from studying in India in 1974, I would be asked in social situations what I did. When I replied, "I teach meditation" they would frequently look at me as though to say "That is weird," and sort of sidle away.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Firsts, India, Would Be

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• The most common response I hear when I tell people I teach meditation is, "I'm so stressed out. I could use some of that!" A response I also sometimes hear, which amuses me a lot is, "My partner should really meet you!"

  Sharon Salzberg

  People, Stressed, Use

  "A conversation with meditation teacher and co-founder of Insight Meditation Society: Sharon Salzberg". Interview with Nancy Alder, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. August 4, 2013.

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• If you can't fall asleep, learn how to meditate. I would recommend you listen to a beautiful tape called Spiritual Power, Spiritual Practice [Energy Evaluation Meditations For Morning and Evening, 1998]. It was the one that got me out of my writer's block when I was writing Caramelo. It's by Carolyn Myss.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Morning

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• Before you speak, get very quiet, do the meditation, say, "Use me as a channel for what needs to get said to this community. This community needs to hear something very important that I'm the only person in the room who can say it. Please help open me so that I'm not frightened and speak through me. Let me be that channel so that I can help heal." You make yourself so humble that you really are like a flute and that music that comes out comes from el corazón. All the people you're connected to from that light that we call love.

  Sandra Cisneros

  Humble, Light, People

  "Talking in Our Pajamas: A Conversation with Sandra Cisneros on Finding Your Voice, Fear of Highways, Tacos, Travel, and the Need for Peace in the World". Interview with Ruth Behar, quod.lib.umich.edu. September 28, 2006.

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• The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Unions

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• The most effective way to live in the flow of the timeless is meditation.

  Deepak Chopra

  Way To Live, Flow, Timeless

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• I am a bit of a health nut. I really like to mix it up a lot. I do a lot of yoga, and I do a lot of Pilates, but I also like to run. That's kind of my meditation, I guess.

  Jessica McNamee

  Running, Yoga, Nuts

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• Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.

  Saul Williams

  Letting Go, Running, Wall

  Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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