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All seasoned players know, or at least have felt, that when you are playing your best, you are much the same as in a state of meditation. You are free of tension and chatter. You are concentrating on one thing. It is the ideal condition for good golf.
Harvey Penick
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Philosophy, being the product of lengthy meditation and an entire life, ought not and cannot be presented to the people who are always at the beginning of life.
Antoine de Rivarol
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Metaphysical aspects of star gazing — its potential as a vehicle for therapeutic relaxation, meditation, and spiritual contact with the awesome creative power manifests in all of nature but is pinnacled in the stars.
Jim Mullaney
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When one learns a different way of dealing with the situation, one no longer has to have a purpose. One is not on the way to somewhere. Or rather, one is on the way and one is also at the destination at the same time. That is really what meditation is for.
Chögyam Trungpa
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The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within.
Deepak Chopra
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To see a priest making his meditation before Mass does more for an altar boy's vocation than a thousand pieces of inspirational literature.
Fulton J. Sheen
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In fact, a person always finds when he begins to practice meditation that all sorts of problems are brought out. Any hidden aspects of your personality are brought out into the open, for the simple reason that for the first time you are allowing yourself to see your state of mind as it is.
Chögyam Trungpa
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During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
Hermann Hesse
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See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.
Ramana Maharshi
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Use the previous techniques in rotation. It will prevent your meditation experience from becoming stale.
Frederick Lenz
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What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.
Matthew Henry
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Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.
Sharon Salzberg
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Immeasurably above all the delights of sense is the serene rapture of meditation, the calm ecstasy of pure thought, sounding the depths of its own consciousness, and ruling all else which is subject to man, in the heaven above and the earth beneath, with the sovereign mastery of mind.
Edward Everett
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Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The simplicity of meditation means just experiencing the ape instinct of ego.
Chögyam Trungpa
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It is only by mature meditation on the possibilities and probabilities of future events — that we can elude the tortuous troubles of the tomorrows.
Baltasar Gracián
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Regular meditation not only restores our inner harmony and vital energy, but provides us with an actual experience of the peace we seek.
Diane Dreher
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In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with our experience, whatever it is.
Pema Chödrön
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By work alone, men may get to where Buddha got largely by meditation or Christ by prayer. Buddha was a working Jnani, Christ was a Bhakta, but the same goal was reached by both of them. Good motives, sincerity, and infinite love can conquer the world. One single soul possessed of these virtues can destroy the dark designs of millions of hypocrites and brutes.
Swami Vivekananda
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Any daily activity can be used as an opportunity for meditation.
Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
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Any scientific problem must be attacked by research into detail; the natural scientist did not win his victories until he left meditation on the great riddles of the world and began a careful study of special problems; our knowledge — of more general associations and of far-reaching laws — has grown out of the results of such research.
Hans von Euler-Chelpin
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Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.
Amit Ray
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I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other.
Joseph Campbell
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The spirit world is able to get through to you easily when your mind is still and clear. Meditation is often referred to as 'sitting in the silence.' Whenever you want to reach Spirit from this side of life, start by sitting in the silence.
James Van Praagh
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Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.
Sarah Ban Breathnach
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