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By and by... there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine.
Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.
Most of your desires are not really about yourself. You just picked them up from your social surroundings.
Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.
Spirituality is ultimate greed. You don't just want a piece of creation - you want the source of creation.
Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.
Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.
Meditation is about breathing, it's about clarity, taking your time and not rushing through your thinking.
We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.
Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.
I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.
All the great spiritual traditions have placed major emphasis upon meditation as a path to personal growth.
In deep meditation, all of the things that we call life, all of the combinations of experiences, fall away.
In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.
I don't do any special preparations before recording any number, nothing like deep breathing or meditation.
I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what's going on in your brain.
Learn not to judge your meditation. Just meditate, do your best, set a minimum period of time and meditate.
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation.
Lessen the quantity of unnecessary thoughts and allow more space for the energy of love to flow within you.
No work is stressful. It is your inability to manage your body, mind, and emotions that makes it stressful.
I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life.
Meditation cannot be taught, it can only be caught. I am meditation. If you are available you can catch it.
Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.
Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.
I meditate but not regularly. I wish I did more meditation. It's always my New Year's resolution to do more.
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.
Meditation is really good. I do that a lot with my bass player Bob, and we do TM: transcendental meditation.
Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.
He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life.
Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.
If you set out to meditate, it will not be meditation. If you set out to be good, goodness will never flower.
I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results.
Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.
Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.
Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
Meditation is a time to focus, train the mind, and bring it to stillness. It is not a time to rest and relax.
Intelligence comes from meditation, intelligence comes from rebellion, intelligence does not come from memory
Don't be afraid to experiement with your life and with your heart, your meditation and your being. Just love.
Meditation helps you to learn about character and mind. It relieves you of the tension you have gone through.
I've started doing yoga and meditation, but I'm not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form.
The reason one enters into lower mental states is because you don't have the power or chi flowing through you.
If you are silent through meditation, utterly silent, suddenly you feel a tremendous urge to create something.
The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as yoga.
Meditation goes in. Prayer goes out. But they both aim for the same place of union between you and the devine.