A THREAD on collection of insightful actionable thoughts on Meditation:
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If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.
- Ajahn Amaro
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If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.
- Ajahn Amaro
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The ancient art of meditation has been practiced by many cultures for centuries. It is a life changing practice that can help alleviate stress, anxiety, depression and bring inner peace.
- Tamia Jaelynn
The ancient art of meditation has been practiced by many cultures for centuries. It is a life changing practice that can help alleviate stress, anxiety, depression and bring inner peace.
- Tamia Jaelynn
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The more regularly and more deeply you meditate, the sooner you will find yourself acting always from a centre of inner peace.
- J. Donald Walters
The more regularly and more deeply you meditate, the sooner you will find yourself acting always from a centre of inner peace.
- J. Donald Walters
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The true practice of meditation is to sit as if you were drinking water when you are thirsty.
- Shunryu Suzuki
The true practice of meditation is to sit as if you were drinking water when you are thirsty.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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When you have achieved a state of deep meditation, you unlock the door to your subconscious mind. That is where your power to create the life you desire lies.
- Adrian Calabrese
When you have achieved a state of deep meditation, you unlock the door to your subconscious mind. That is where your power to create the life you desire lies.
- Adrian Calabrese
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A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Schedule it you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite.
- Roy Eugene Davis
A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Schedule it you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite.
- Roy Eugene Davis
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If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts.
- Rajiv Mehrotra
If you read the stories of the great spiritual teachers of the past, we find that they have attained spiritual realization through a great deal of meditation, solitude and practice. They did not take any shortcuts.
- Rajiv Mehrotra
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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
- Thich Nhat Hanh
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Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
- Sharon Salzberg
Restore your attention or bring it to a new level by dramatically slowing down whatever you're doing.
- Sharon Salzberg
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Meditation is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness.
- Osho
Meditation is simply sitting silently, witnessing the thoughts, passing before you. Just witnessing, not interfering not even judging, because the moment you judge you have lost the pure witness.
- Osho
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Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
- Patanjali
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
- Patanjali
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While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life.
- Shunryu Suzuki
While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will become deeper and deeper, and your experience will cover everything you do in your everyday life.
- Shunryu Suzuki
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Meditation is the procedure to rearrange, harmonize, activate, and integrate the individual life energy with the cosmic life energy.
- Amit Ray
Meditation is the procedure to rearrange, harmonize, activate, and integrate the individual life energy with the cosmic life energy.
- Amit Ray
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Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your failures. Know your fears. Know your pleasures, joy and happiness. Go deeper and examine every feeling you have.
- Amit Ray
Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodily discomforts. Know your success, know your failures. Know your fears. Know your pleasures, joy and happiness. Go deeper and examine every feeling you have.
- Amit Ray
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The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, & bring order, and from there move endlessly. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, & bring order, and from there move endlessly. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim.
- Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of emptiness, however, because it reminds them of loneliness.
- Benjamin Hoff
Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of emptiness, however, because it reminds them of loneliness.
- Benjamin Hoff
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Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.
- Amit Ray
Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the middle.
- Amit Ray
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I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
- Kurt Vonnegut
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
- Kurt Vonnegut
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As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible: we can say yes, or we can say no.
- Eknath Easwaran
As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings, and fits of emotions begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible: we can say yes, or we can say no.
- Eknath Easwaran
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If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice.
- Victoria Moran
If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you were short on before. Let these qualities aid your practice.
- Victoria Moran
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The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it, with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it.
- Alan Watts
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it, with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it.
- Alan Watts
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When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a candle in a windless place.
- Bhagavad Gita
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a candle in a windless place.
- Bhagavad Gita
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"When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace."
"When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace."
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The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.
- Napoleon Bonaparte
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If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things – that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to...
If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only makes it worse, but over time it does calm, and when it does, there’s room to hear more subtle things – that’s when your intuition starts to blossom and you start to...
... see things more clearly and be in the present more. Your mind just slows down, and you see a tremendous expanse in the moment. You see so much more than you could see before.
- Steve Jobs
- Steve Jobs
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Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
- Isaac Newton
Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.
- Isaac Newton
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One morning, you’ll hit mental inbox zero, and that is a pretty amazing feeling. It’s a state somewhere between joy, bliss, and peace. Once you have that, you won’t want to give that up.
- @naval
One morning, you’ll hit mental inbox zero, and that is a pretty amazing feeling. It’s a state somewhere between joy, bliss, and peace. Once you have that, you won’t want to give that up.
- @naval
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A few hours of meditation were enough to show me that I hardly had any control of myself. I was not the CEO – I was barely the gatekeeper.
- @harari_yuval
A few hours of meditation were enough to show me that I hardly had any control of myself. I was not the CEO – I was barely the gatekeeper.
- @harari_yuval
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If every eight year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.
- 14th Dalai Lama
If every eight year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.
- 14th Dalai Lama
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