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Quotes
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the Journey:
Meditation
Sleep is the best meditation.
the Dalai Lama
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If I had not been already
been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've
treated my own depression for many years with exercise and
meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.
-Judy Collins
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It is not the number of books you read, nor
the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious
conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and
earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the
truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that
ensures your growth.
-Frederick William Robertson
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| Some people think that
meditation takes time away from physical
accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true.
Most people,
however, find that meditation creates more time than it
takes. -Peter McWilliams |
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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. -Thich
Nhat Hanh
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| Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is
when you listen to God.
-Diana Robinson |
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| The more intense the nature of a man, the
more readily will he find meditation, and the more
successfully will he practice
it. -James Allen |
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| Fishing provides that
connection with the whole living world. It gives you the
opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into
yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of
communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the
ordinary self. -Ted Hughes |
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| A good meditation, even
when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more
beneficial than many outward religious exercises.
-Johannes Tauler |
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| We could say that meditation doesn't have a
reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's
unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making
music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in
order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the
composition. If that were the purpose of music then
obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when
we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular
place on the floor as in a journey. 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 |
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A wise teacher, instructing his students to
meditate, told them, "The process is like filling a
sieve with water." All of the students were
confused by this statement. How was it possible to
fill a sieve with water? Some thought it meant
meditation was very difficult, and others thought it meant
they could only expect temporary gains from their
practice. Discouraged, they stopped meditating.
One student, however, approached the teacher and asked him
to explain.
The teacher took the student to the edge of the ocean, gave
him a sieve, and told him to try to fill it with
water. The student scooped the water into the sieve,
but it immediately ran out. The teacher took the sieve
from the student and said, "I will show you
how." The teacher threw the sieve into the water,
where it sank almost immediately. He told the student,
"The sieve is full of water now and will stay that way
forever. Meditation works the same way. It's not
about scooping small amounts of Spirit into your individual
life, but about dropping yourself into the ocean of Spirit
and merging with that Spirit more and more each day."
-unattributed, told by Marci Shimoff |
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| Through
meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a
time,
we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
-Eknath Easwaran |
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| Make
your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate
regular periods
of silence and meditation. The best time to build
judgment is in solitude,
when you can think out things for yourself without the
probability of interruption.
-Grenville Kleiser |
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| Meditation
is not a way
of making your mind quiet.
It's a way of entering into
the quiet that's already there—buried under the 50,000
thoughts the average person
thinks every day. -Deepak Chopra |
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| Meditation
is the soul's perspective glass.
-Owen Felltham |
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