Practice Quotes - Page 28

• The simplest aspect of self-enquiry is to just hold onto the sense I AM, the sense of Being. Keep the sense of "I" or "I AM" by itself. Everyone can do this exercise - it brings immediate results.

  Mooji

  Inspiration, Exercise, Self

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• We'd go to the fraternity house. It was a good place to practice. But we really wanted the kids to overhear us. And whoever heard us would go nuts over it.

  Art Garfunkel

  Kids, Nuts, Uprising

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• Something is aware of even the energy of confusion inside of you. There is no need to get unconfused. Leave it - it will pass.

  Mooji

  Inspiration, Confusion, Meditation

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• There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get distracted. Nothing exists in itself as a distraction - it is you who get distracted. Why?

  Mooji

  Believe, Inspiration, Meditation

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• The nature of illusion is that, when you see through it, it disappears.

  Mooji

  Inspiration, Meditation, Illusion

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• Everything is happening spontaneously, and the witnessing of it is also happening spontaneously. Everything is already happening in natural balance.

  Mooji

  Inspiration, Meditation, Balance

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• Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

  Nhat Hanh

  Inspiration, Offering, Meditation

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2011). “Peace Is Every Breath: A Practice for Our Busy Lives”, p.14, Harper Collins

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• Live your life without hurting anybody. Harmlessness is a most powerful form of Yoga and it will take you speedily to your goal. This is what I call nisarga yoga, the Natural yoga. It is the art of living in peace and harmony, in friendliness and love. The fruit of it is happiness, uncaused and endless.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Art, Hurt, Powerful

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• Meditation is a deliberate attempt to pierce into the higher states of consciousness and finally go beyond it. The art of meditation is the art of shifting the focus of attention to ever subtler levels, without losing one's grip on the levels left behind. (...) Save all your energies and time for breaking the wall your mind had built around you. Believe me, you will not regret.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Art, Wall, Regret

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• You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don't get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Bored, Meditation

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• Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see what happens. The first steps may bring the roof down on your head, but soon the commotion will clear and there will be peace and joy.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, Meditation, Joy

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• Watch your thoughts as you watch the street traffic. People come and go; you register without response. It may not be easy in the beginning, but with some practice you will find that your mind can function on many levels at the same time and you can be aware of them all.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Inspiration, People, Meditation

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• Pain is physical; suffering is mental. Beyond the mind there is no suffering. Pain is essential for the survival of the body, but none compels you to suffer. Suffering is due entirely to clinging or resisting; it is a sign of our unwillingness to move on, to flow with life.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Moving, Inspiration

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• When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between pain and pleasure breaks down, both become just experience - painful when resisted, joyful when accepted.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Pain, Inspiration, Meditation

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• The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other matters.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Thinking, Meditation

  Sri Ramana Maharshi (1991). “Be As You Are: The Teachings of Sri Ramana Maharshi”, p.137, Penguin UK

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• Whenever a thought arises, instead of trying even a little either to follow it up or to fulfil it, it would be better to first enquire, "To whom did this thought arise?"

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Meditation, Trying

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• The state we call realization is simply being oneself, not knowing anything or becoming anything.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Knowing, Meditation

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• I am persuaded, from all the facts that have come to me, that it would have been possible, if we had functioned as the Lord intended us to function, if we had paid our tithes and our offerings as the Lord intended us to pay them, we might have gone on without one dollar from our federal government. And has it ever occurred to you what a mighty influence we should have exercised for good and for respect and for all of the virtues that we have been taught, and that God has commanded us to exercise and cultivate and practice, if we had just followed along what he has asked us to do?

  J. Reuben Clark

  Exercise, Should Have, Government

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• See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Inspiration, Meditation, Consciousness

  "The Spiritual Teaching of Ramana Maharshi".

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• Through repeated practice of the body scan over time, we come to grasp the reality of our body as whole in the present moment. This feeling of wholeness can be experienced no matter what is wrong with your body. One part of your body, or many parts of your body, may be diseased or in pain or even missing, yet you can still cradle them in this experience of wholeness. - Jon Kabat

  Howard Zinn

  Pain, Inspiration, Reality

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• Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.

  Laozi

  Strong, Inspiration, Water

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• This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

  Paul Brunton

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Luxury

  Paul Brunton (1986). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Practices for the Quest; Relax and Retreat”, Larson Publication

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• Stand in that reverent attitude to the whole universe, and then will come perfect non attachment.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Attitude, Inspiration, Attachment

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.2206, Manonmani Publishers

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• Whenever we attain a higher vision, the lower vision disappears of itself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Meditation, Vision

  Swami Vivekananda, Ann Myren (1993). “Living at the Source: Yoga Teachings of Vivekananda”, Shambhala Publications

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• Hold to the idea, "I am not the mind, I see that I am thinking, I am watching my mind act," and each day the identification of yourself with thoughts and feelings will grow less, until at last you can entirely separate yourself from the mind and actually know it to be apart from yourself.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Inspiration, Thinking, Ideas

  Swami Vivekananda (2015). “The Complete Works of Swami Vivekananda”, p.3525, Manonmani Publishers

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