| Quotation 1 : | CONTEMPLATION
"The joys of heaven are not the joys of passive contemplation, of dreamy remembrance, of perfect repose; but they are described thus: "They rest not day nor night." "His servants serve Him, and see His face."" |
| Alexander MacLaren |
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| Quotation 2 : | CONTEMPLATION
"If we can keep our minds calm on the subject of the "Eternity of God," if reason does not totter on her seat at the contemplation of underived existence, it will be strange if any other mystery relating to God should disturb us. He who can bring his reaso" |
| Nehemiah Adams |
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| Quotation 3 : | CONTEMPLATION
"I say that man believes in a God, who feels himself in the presence of a Power which is not himself, and is immeasurably above himself, a Power in the contemplation of which he is absorbed, in the knowledge of which he finds safety and happiness." |
| Henry Drummond |
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| Quotation 4 : | CONTEMPLATION
"God has special confidences for each soul. Indeed, it would seem as though the deepest truths came only in moments of profound devotional silence and contemplation." |
| Charles H. Brent |
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| Quotation 5 : | CONTEMPLATION
"Two sentiments alone suffice for man, were he to live the age of the rocks - love, and the contemplation of the Deity." |
| Isaac Watts |
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| Quotation 6 : | CONTEMPLATION
"What could God give us to enjoy that would prove Him most loving? There is only one possible answer: Himself! If He withholds Himself from our contemplation and companionship, no matter what else He gives us, He is not loving." |
| John Piper |
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| Quotation 7 : | CONTEMPLATION
"It is not necessary to maintain a conversation when we are in the presence of God. We can come into His presence and rest our weary souls in quiet contemplation of Him. Our groanings, which cannot be uttered, rise to Him and tell Him better than words how" |
| Ole Hallesby |
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| Quotation 8 : | CONTEMPLATION
"The height of devotion is reached when reverence and contemplation produce passionate worship, which in turn breaks forth in thanksgiving and praise in word and song." |
| R. Kent Hughes |
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| Quotation 9 : | CONTEMPLATION
"Worship is adoring contemplation of God." |
| R.A. Torrey |
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| Quotation 10 : | CONTEMPLATION
"There are many beautiful things in the world around us, but pearls can only be discovered in the depths of the sea; if we wish to posses spiritual pearls we must plunge into the depths, that is, we must pray, we must sink down into the secret depths of co" |
| Sadhu Sundar Singh |
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| Quotation 11 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books." |
| William Cowper |
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| Quotation 12 : | MEDITATION
"The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away." |
| Harrison Ford |
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| Quotation 13 : | MEDITATION
"When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself to receive God's gift, the universal force, or whatever that is." |
| Erin Gray |
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| Quotation 14 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life." |
| Brendon Burchard |
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| Quotation 15 : | MEDITATION
"Let's tell the truth to people. When people ask, 'How are you?' have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don't wa" |
| — Maya Angelou |
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| Quotation 16 : | MEDITATION
"The six elements of her Fail Proof Broken-Heart Curing Treatment: Vitamin E, get much sleep, drink much water, travel to a place far away from the person you loved, meditate and teach your heart that this is destiny."" |
| — Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| Quotation 17 : | MEDITATION
"The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms." |
| — Thích Nhất Hạnh |
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| Quotation 18 : | MEDITATION
"Meditate.
Live purely. Be quiet.
Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come out
from behind the clouds!
Shine" |
| — Gautama Buddha |
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| Quotation 19 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality." |
| Richard Gere |
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| Quotation 20 : | MEDITATION
"Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time." |
| Kelsey Grammer |
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| Quotation 21 : | MEDITATION
"Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate." |
| Swami Sivananda |
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| Quotation 22 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is simply talking to God about His Word with a desire that your life and those you pray for come into agreement with it." |
| William Thrasher |
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| Quotation 23 : | MEDITATION
"Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more." |
| Ziggy Marley |
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| Quotation 24 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action." |
| Francis Quarles |
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| Quotation 25 : | MEDITATION
"There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way." |
| Mike Love |
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| Quotation 26 : | MEDITATION
"The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself." |
| Christy Turlington |
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| Quotation 27 : | MEDITATION
"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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| Quotation 28 : | MEDITATION
"Sleep is the best meditation." |
| Dalai Lama |
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| Quotation 29 : | MEDITATION
"The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past." |
| Andre Maurois |
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| Quotation 30 : | MEDITATION
"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." |
| Dalai Lama |
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| Quotation 31 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity." |
| Voltaire |
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| Quotation 32 : | MEDITATION
"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 o" |
| Ted Hughes |
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| Quotation 33 : | MEDITATION
"Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation." |
| Jean Arp |
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| Quotation 34 : | MEDITATION
"If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world." |
| Sri Chinmoy |
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| Quotation 35 : | MEDITATION
"There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt." |
| Dalai Lama |
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| Quotation 36 : | MEDITATION
"This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful." |
| Prem Rawat |
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| Quotation 37 : | MEDITATION
"“The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation.”" |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 38 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end." |
| Swami Sivananda |
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| Quotation 39 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit." |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 40 : | MEDITATION
"I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness." |
| Marianne Williamson |
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| Quotation 41 : | MEDITATION
"I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment." |
| Benjamin Disraeli |
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| Quotation 42 : | MEDITATION
"The sweet spices of divine works must be beaten to powder by meditation, and then laid up in the cabinet of our memories." |
| Abraham Wright |
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| Quotation 43 : | MEDITATION
"God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment and refreshing. Until I can get up to the measure of at least two hours in pure prayer every day, I shall not be contented. Meditation and r" |
| Andrew Bonar |
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| Quotation 44 : | MEDITATION
"We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship." |
| C.S. Lewis |
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| Quotation 45 : | MEDITATION
"When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your heart be employed, as much as possible, in divine thoughts." |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 46 : | MEDITATION
"Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a superficial knowledge." |
| David Brainerd |
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| Quotation 47 : | MEDITATION
"Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy - in meditation, in prayer, and especially in the use of the Bible." |
| F.B. Meyer |
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| Quotation 48 : | MEDITATION
"It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation." |
| Hannah More |
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| Quotation 49 : | MEDITATION
"The constant habit of perusing devout books is so indispensable, that it has been termed the oil of the lamp of prayer. Too much reading, however, and too little meditation, may produce the effect of a lamp inverted; which is extinguished by the very exce" |
| Hannah More |
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| Quotation 50 : | MEDITATION
"Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation." |
| Isaac Watts |
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| Quotation 51 : | MEDITATION
"Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form our judgment." |
| Isaac Watts |
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| Quotation 52 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is love's nourishment." |
| Jack Hyles |
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| Quotation 53 : | MEDITATION
"It is not mere reading, but meditation -- "meditation all the day," as the Psalmist says -- which extracts the sweetness and the power out of Scripture." |
| James Stalker |
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| Quotation 54 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the neglects of meditation and recessions from that duty; according as we neglect meditation, so are our prayers imperfect, - meditation bein" |
| Jeremy Taylor |
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| Quotation 55 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long removes, she discerneth God, as if he were nearer at hand." |
| Owen Feltham |
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| Quotation 56 : | MEDITATION
"Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears." |
| R.A. Torrey |
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| Quotation 57 : | MEDITATION
"The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation." |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 58 : | MEDITATION
"To meditate on the Scriptures is to think about them, turning them over in our minds, and applying them to our life's situations... The objective of our meditation is application - obedience to the Scriptures." |
| Jerry Bridges |
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| Quotation 59 : | MEDITATION
"Some women will spend thirty minutes to an hour preparing for church externally (putting on special clothes and makeup, etc.). What would happen if we all spent the same amount of time preparing internally for church - with prayer and meditation?" |
| Leonard Ravenhill |
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| Quotation 60 : | MEDITATION
"Continued meditation brings great profit to the soul. Passant and transient thoughts are more pleasant, but not so profitable. Deliberate meditation is of most use because it secures the return of the thoughts." |
| Thomas Manton |
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| Quotation 61 : | MEDITATION
"The end of study is information, and the end of meditation is practice, or a work upon the affections. Study is like a winter sun, that shines, but warms not: but meditation is like a blowing upon the fire, where we do not mind the blaze, but the heat. Th" |
| Thomas Manton |
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| Quotation 62 : | MEDITATION
"What is the reason there is so much preaching and so little practice? For want of meditation.... Constant thoughts are operative, and musing makes the fire burn. Green wood is not kindled by a flash or spark, but by constant blowing." |
| Thomas Manton |
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| Quotation 63 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation doth discriminate and characterise a man; by this he may take a measure of his heart, whether it be good or bad; let me allude to that; "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7. As the meditation is, such is the man. Meditatio" |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 64 : | MEDITATION
"Meditate on what you read (Psm. 199:15). The Hebrew word for "meditate" means to be intense in the mind. Meditation without reading is wrong and bound to err; reading without meditation is barren and fruitless." |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 65 : | MEDITATION
"Nothing leads to self-repudiation so much as spiritual meditation on the corruption and wickedness of your heart. If your soul has grasped human depravity you have been forced to deny yourself... No man can conclude in his heart, 'in me dwelleth no good t" |
| Walter J. Chantry |
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| Quotation 66 : | MEDITATION
"The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility." |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 67 : | MEDITATION
"Fasting in the biblical sense is choosing not to partake of food because your spiritual hunger is so deep, you determination in intercession so intense, or your spiritual warfare so demanding that you have temporarily set aside even fleshly needs to give" |
| Wesley L. Duewel |
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| Quotation 68 : | MEDITATION
"Reading is good, hearing is good, conversation and meditation are good; but then, they are only good at times and occasions, in a certain degree, and must be used and governed with such caution as we eat and drink and refresh ourselves, or they will bring" |
| William Law |
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| Quotation 69 : | MEDITATION
"During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep." |
| Mike Love |
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| Quotation 70 : | MEDITATION
"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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| Quotation 71 : | MEDITATION
"The execution of anything considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation." |
| William Godwin |
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| Quotation 72 : | MEDITATION
"Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses." |
| Daniel Goleman |
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| Quotation 73 : | MEDITATION
"If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to his thoughts and meditations upon the person of Christ, and the glory of Christ's Kingdom, and of His love." |
| John Owen |
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| Quotation 74 : | MEDITATION
"“Meditation doth discriminate and characterise a man; by this he may take a measure of his heart, whether it be good or bad; let me allude to that; "For as he thinketh in his heart, so is he." Proverbs 23:7. As the meditation is, such is the man. Meditati" |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 75 : | MEDITATION
"“Meditate on what you read (Psm. 199:15). The Hebrew word for "meditate" means to be intense in the mind. Meditation without reading is wrong and bound to err; reading without meditation is barren and fruitless.”" |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 76 : | MEDITATION
"“Nothing leads to self-repudiation so much as spiritual meditation on the corruption and wickedness of your heart. If your soul has grasped human depravity you have been forced to deny yourself... No man can conclude in his heart, 'in me dwelleth no good" |
| Walter J. Chantry |
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| Quotation 77 : | MEDITATION
"“The gospel we preach must not be just something we hear from men or read from books or even conceived through our meditation. Unless it is delivered to us by God, it can serve no spiritual utility.”" |
| Watchman Nee |
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| Quotation 78 : | MEDITATION
"When we find our souls at all declining, it is best to raise them up presently by some awakening meditations, such as of the presence of God, of the strict reckoning we are to make, of the infinite love of God in Christ and the fruits of it, of the excell" |
| Richard Sibbes |
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| Quotation 79 : | MEDITATION
"You must keep your memory clean and pure, as it were a wedlock chamber, from all strange thoughts, fancies and imaginations, and it must be trimmed and adorned with holy meditations and virtues of Christ's holy crucified life and passion: That God may con" |
| Robert Leighton |
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| Quotation 80 : | MEDITATION
"I will conclude with that excellent saying of Bernard: "Lord, I will never come away from Thee without Thee." Let this be a Christian's resolution, not to leave off his meditations of God till he find something of God in him." |
| Thomas Watson |
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| Quotation 81 : | MEDITATION
"Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own." |
| Madame de Stael |
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| Quotation 82 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh." |
| Hugh Jackman |
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| Quotation 83 : | MEDITATION
"I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way." |
| Gillian Anderson |
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| Quotation 84 : | MEDITATION
"Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works." |
| Shirley MacLaine |
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| Quotation 85 : | MEDITATION
"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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| Quotation 86 : | MEDITATION
"My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently" |
| — Osho |
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| Quotation 87 : | MEDITATION
"Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemenc" |
| — Elizabeth Gilbert |
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| Quotation 88 : | MEDITATION
"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." |
| — Patañjali |
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| Quotation 89 : | MEDITATION
"Meditate. Breathe consciously. Listen. Pay attention. Treasure every moment. Make the connection." |
| — Oprah Winfrey |
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| Quotation 90 : | MEDITATION
"The ending of sorrow is the beginning of wisdom. Knowledge is always within the shadow of ignorance. Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence." |
| — Jiddu Krishnamurti |
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| Quotation 91 : | MEDITATION
"You exist in time, but you belong to
eternity- You are a penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are
deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows no death, no
birth- It is only your body that is born and dies-But you are no" |
| — Osho |
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| Quotation 92 : | MEDITATION
"Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you." |
| — Amit Ray |
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| Quotation 93 : | MEDITATION
"When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a new idea with me: compassion. I asked my heart if it could please infuse my soul with a more generous perspective on my mind's workings. Instead o" |
| — Elizabeth Gilbert |
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