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Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up.
What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.
You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.
Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.
Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.
Meditation is not what you do in the morning, that's practice. Meditation is the daily result of that practice.
Some people meditate because they need more energy and when you meditate you get a tremendous amount of energy.
Meditation is the eye that sees the Truth, the heart that feels the Truth and the soul that realises the Truth.
My words are like a ship, and the sea is their meaning. Come to me and I will take you to the depths of spirit.
Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.
Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent
Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.
If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.
The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!
A mantra is a thought. Use a mantra to help you still your mind initially and then move into silent meditation.
It is more important to repeat a mantra several times with total absorption than to parrot it for hours on end.
Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.
Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.
My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
Meditation is re-discovering the inner Kingdom of God. The Kingdom of God lies in our understandings and wisdom.
I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.
In the meditation, of course, the question is repeated and repeated until you run out of answers - or so I hear.
True and lasting solution to correct ills can be found only by inner, collective transformation of human beings.
Concentration is the creation of the instrument; meditation is the right use of it; contemplation transcends it.
We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.
Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.
When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the mind.
...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
If you are truly a seeker of truth, truth cannot hide from you. It is in the lap of truth that you have happened.
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time?
When you start to meditate, if you stick with it, you will see tremendous changes in your life and state of mind.
We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.
In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds.
The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before we were born.
Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes.
The third stage is no thought. No thought is not the end of meditation. It is the beginning of higher meditation.
The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.
Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.
Meditation tells you only one thing: God is. Meditation reveals to you only one truth: yours is the vision of God.
If we transform our population into a trained, focused, balanced and inspired population, India will be a miracle.
While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.
Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.
If you do a yoga that does not change the patterns of energy within you, I would say, don't waste your time on it.
Say nothing good of yourself, you will be distrusted; say nothing bad of yourself, you will be taken at your word.
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
Let us live in peace and harmony to keep the land and all life in balance. Only prayer and meditation can do that.
Let every thought come and hug you, but you don't hug anything. Then, gradually, the noise will start to back off.