Meditation Quotes - Page 37

• When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Attention, Firsts, Composing

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• [Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I had something to do and something to say.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Ensemble, Students

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a listening meditation after that, after the body has been loosened up and warmed up and is ready. We do the listening. After that, there's the journaling of the experience, which they do each time throughout the semester to the point that I have them write a final paper on what they've experienced.

  Pauline Oliveros

  Writing, Exercise, Class

  Source: www.artpractical.com

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• We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme increase by 40 per cent. We looked at their 23,000 genes and the self-healing genes were up regulated and all the genes related to heart disease, cancer and inflammatory diseases, diabetes, they all went down within five days.

  Deepak Chopra

  Cancer, Heart, Healing

  Source: www.psychologies.co.uk

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• I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.

  Emma Stone

  Yoga, Thinking, Creating

  Source: www.kidzworld.com

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• Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart.

  Tara Brach

  Heart, People, Focus

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That's what's so nice. In my life there's been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Krishna in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you're trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible.

  George Harrison

  Nice, Reality, Mind

  "The Mantra 'Keeps Me in Tune with Reality'". Interview with Mukunda Goswami, www.beliefnet.com. September 4, 1982.

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• Meditation has been a big change for me in a super-positive way. I see the result and strength and clarity - even my creativity is different and more connected. It might be 10 minutes a day; it might be 20 minutes a day. But every day in this crazy world, it's a sense of peace and purpose.

  Alicia Keys

  Crazy, Creativity, Different

  Source: www.glamour.com

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• The makeup [for Count Olaf] took about two and a half hours every morning. The meditation was another hour and a half. I would eat a big breakfast - that was probably 45 minutes. And then it was lunch.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Morning, Makeup, Two

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• I don't pray enough, but I pray more now. Every morning at six o'clock have a half hour of meditation before the Blessed Sacrament. I pray with others too.

  Henri Nouwen

  Morning, Blessed, Six

  Source: www.liguorian.org

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• Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Compassion, Emotion, Constructive

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation; you could call that emotional balance.

  Matthieu Ricard

  Stress, Emotional, Balance

  Source: www.takingcharge.csh.umn.edu

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• I'm actually big into meditation, transcendental meditation, and that really helps create not only a sense of balance, but all the other stuff this is gonna sound cliché... serenity and kind of a calm state of mind. And not that I'm like that all the time, but it helps me deal with life's ups and downs, coming from more of a centered place. Also it helps with creativity.

  Eva Mendes

  Creativity, Serenity, Mind

  Source: www.mtv.com

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• I don't go out to parties because I'd look terrible in pictures. My escape is television - it's like meditation to me.

  Alber Elbaz

  Party, Looks, Television

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• Meditation is the means through which the Soul dictates and guides the mind for all good.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Soul, Mind

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1962). “Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi”

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• Meditation is the direct means of eradicating the very cause of the majority of diseases, both mental and physical.

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

  Mean, Causes, Majority

  Mahesh Yogi (Maharishi.) (1962). “Meditation: easy system propounded by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi”

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• And last are the few whose delight is in meditation and understanding; who yearn not for goods, nor for victory, but for knowledge; who leave both market and battlefield to lose themselves in the quiet clarity of secluded thought; whose will is a light rather than a fire, whose haven is not power but truth: these are the men of wisdom, who stand aside unused by the world.

  Will Durant

  Men, Fire, Light

  Will Durant (2012). “Story of Philosophy”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• People turn to meditation because they want to make good decisions, break bad habits & bounce back better from disappointments.

  Sharon Salzberg

  Disappointment, People, Decision

  FaceBook post by Sharon Salzberg from Aug 05, 2011

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• If love is killed, joy is lost. You cannot have joy without love.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Enjoyment is only possible when you are beyond your mind.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take to the good side of everything to enjoy it. This is wisdom and that you avoid all destructive things and take to something constructive.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• First of all, learn to laugh at yourself. That's the best way to enjoy yourself, you know, and not to spend much time in the mirror, that's another way.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• Wisdom means that it gives you detachment, detachment from all that is selfishness, self-centredness, self-obsession, ego - all connected with self.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• You can do marvels and miracles if you have developed the understanding of love.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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• In the present the eternal stays, the rest all drops out.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Love, Wisdom, Yoga

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