Meditation Quotes - Page 32

• Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time.

  Gift of Gab

  Space, Being There, Shows

  Source: www.billboard.com

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• We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

  Deepak Chopra

  Compassion, Creative, Understanding

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• Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation happens - in innocence you transcend the mind, and to transcend the mind is to become the Awakened One, the Enlightened One.

  Rajneesh

  Miracle, Magic, Mind

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• Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation.

  Rajneesh

  Dancer, Ego, Forget

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• Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the same chemicals that form the basis of mood-altering drugs. You may use yoga, meditation, cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) or exercise to alter your mood, or revert to healthy eating, regular exercise and getting enough sleep.

  Liz Miller

  Yoga, Sleep, Exercise

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• I love being outside with trees and water, lying down somewhere or walking. I do transcendental meditation, which keeps me calm and steady.

  Naomi Watts

  Lying, Love Is, Water

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• In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

  Jack Kornfield

  Sitting, Body, Earth

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.35, Random House

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• You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation now, and the next moment you must be ready to go and cultivate the fields. You must be prepared to explain the intricacies of the scriptures now, and the next moment to go and sell the produce of the fields in the market....The true man is he who is strong as strength itself and yet possesses a woman's heart.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Strong, Heart, Men

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• A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just something nice to do to make the universe happy.

  Moby

  Spiritual, Real, Nice

  "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, 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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• So it is that a new politics centers around the arousal of that power, using prayer and meditation to create a force field of transformation.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Force Fields, Arousal

  Marianne Williamson (2014). “Healing the Soul of America: Reclaiming Our Voices as Spiritual Citizens”, p.209, Simon and Schuster

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• Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.

  Gary Zukav

  Lectures, Physics, Century

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• I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.

  Nhat Hanh

  Children, Book, Teaching

  Thich Nhat Hanh “Thich Nhat Hanh: Essential Writings”, Orbis Books

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• I do yoga daily as well. I need to start the day with some sort of physical activity. That combined with the meditation clears my mind and energizes me.

  Melissa Rauch

  Yoga, Mind, Needs

  "Big Bang Theory’s Melissa Rauch Interview". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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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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• 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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• Abundant choice doesn't force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.

  Virginia Postrel

  Coffee, Mean, Cutting

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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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• For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of modern life; and then again fiction, at least as I write it and think of it, is a kind of religious meditation in which language is the final enlightenment, and it is language, in its beauty, its ambiguity and its shifting textures, that drives my work.

  Don DeLillo

  Religious, Book, Writing

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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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• Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength.

  Sri Chinmoy

  Prayer, Secret, Able

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