Quotes with meditation

  • Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.
  • Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable....
  • To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about.
  • Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.
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  • Bill Hybels A key ingredient in authentic Christianity is time. Not leftover time, not throwaway time, but quality time. Time for contemplation, meditation and reflection. Unhurried, uninterrupted time.
    Too Busy Not to Pray
    Bill Hybels
    American church figure and author (1951 - )
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samādhi.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Lord George Byron And having wisdom with each studious year, in meditation dwelt, with learning wrought, and shaped his weapon with an edge severe, sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Carole Berman Apart from yoga, meditation, reading, it has to be one of the most serene things to do (don't lose your needles though, that can create a severe lack of serenity).
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bhagavad Gita Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.
    Bhagavad Gita
    Indian Hindu storybook
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Benjamin Disraeli 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
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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  • Anne Stevenson I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me.
    Anne Stevenson
    American-British poet and writer (1933 - 2020)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Patanjali In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.
    Patanjali
    Indian scholar
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh It is just like dust gathers on the mirror; every day you have to clean it. On the mirror of your mind dust gathers, dust of experience: it becomes knowledge. Clean it. That's why every day meditation is needed. Meditation is nothing but cleaning the mirror of your mind. Clean it continuously! If you can clean it every moment of your life, then there is no need to sit separately for meditation.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Love is the flowering of meditation. Meditation brings many treasures; perhaps love is the greatest roseflower that grows on the bush of meditation.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.
    Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
    Indian godman and mystic (1931 - 1990)
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  • Buddha Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.
    Buddha
    Spiritual leader, born as Siddhartha Gautama (450 - 370)
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  • Alice Walker Meditation has been a loyal friend to me. It has helped me write my books.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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