Meditation Quotes - Page 8

• The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.

  Rajneesh

  World, Harmony, Spread

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• The kind of spirituality I value is one in which you get great joy out of contributing to life, not just sitting and meditating, although meditation is certainly valuable. But from meditation, from the resulting consciousness, I would like to see people in action creating the world they want to live in.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Change, Spiritual, Creating

  Marshall B. Rosenberg (2005). “Practical Spirituality: The Spiritual Basis of Nonviolent Communication”, p.32, PuddleDancer Press

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• The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this life. For it is only through meditation that you can undertake the journey to discover your true nature, and so find the stability and confidence you will need to live, and die, well; Meditation is the road to enlightenment.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Journey, Giving, Over You

  FaceBook post by Sogyal Rinpoche from Jun 04, 2013

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• To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot be definite with something which is so immense, which is not measurable by words. We cannot understand the immeasurable so long as we approach it through time.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation Practice, Mind, Quiet

  "Collected Works of J Krishnamurti 1956-1957: A Light to Yourself".

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• Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.

  John Welwood

  Letting Go, Nice, Inspiration

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• The act of meditation is being spacious.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

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• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, Ambition, Mind

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

  Mark Tobey

  Believe, Serenity, Action

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• At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

  Ringo Starr

  Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, The End Of The Day

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• Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

  Herman Melville

  Water, Reverie, Absent Minded

  Herman Melville (2002). “Moby-Dick: A Picture Voyage : an Abridged and Illustrated Edition of the Original Classic”, p.13, Spinner Publications

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• When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

  Alan Watts

  Journey, Discovery, Meditation And Yoga

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Meditation... dissolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

  Tom Robbins

  Ego, Mind, Ass

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• Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness, we know what to do and what not to do to help.

  Nhat Hanh

  Buddhist, Vision, Society

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• In dwelling, be close to the land. In meditation, go deep in the heart.

  Laozi

  Heart, Land, Dwelling

  Laozi (1997). “道德经”, Vintage

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• I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way.

  Gillian Anderson

  Yoga, Mean, Way

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• Golf is a search for perfection, for balance. It's about meditation and concentration. You have to use hand and brain.

  Celine Dion

  Golf, Hands, Perfection

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• You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

  Amit Ray

  Flower, Psychics, Process

  "OM Chanting and Meditation". Book by Amit Ray, 2010.

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• Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

  Carol P. Christ

  Nature, Bird, Connections

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• ...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a hypothesis, and observe the facts with an open mind like a scientist.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Believe, Yoga, Mind

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• Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

  Ziggy Marley

  Yoga, Great Things, Connected

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• This is also the age of science and technology in which human beings have progressed beyond the stage of blind faith.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Yoga, Technology, Age

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• It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of all things and verything tends to flow naturally back towards her.

  Nirmala Srivastava

  Mother, Yoga, Teaching

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• The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

  Philip K. Dick

  Problem, Ends, Introspection

  Philip K. Dick (2011). “The Transmigration of Timothy Archer”, p.187, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Powerful, Mind, Study

  Michel de Montaigne (1958). “Essays”

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• It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest Christian.

  Joseph Hall

  Christian, Divine, Prove

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 406, 1895.

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