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Meditation Quote by Ayya Khema

“In meditation, we have to give ourselves totally, with no holding back. Whatever meditation subject we have chosen, we must become immersed in it;” quote by Ayya Khema — Download Open image

““In meditation, we have to give ourselves totally, with no holding back. Whatever meditation subject we have chosen, we must become immersed in it;””

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Half the spiritual life consists of remembering what we are up against and where we are going.

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“when the words we speak or write come from inner experience and are heartfelt, they are always imbued with “trembling for the welfare of…

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“Wisdom comes only from the understood experience and from nothing else.”

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Unless we practice loving feelings toward everyone we meet, day in, day out, we're missing out on the most joyous part of life. If…

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“To be in the present is actually to be in eternity.”

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the more we abandon ill-will and hatred, the easier it will be to meditate.

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Eventually we will find (mostly in retrospect, of course) that we can be very grateful to those people who have made life most difficult…

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A truly happy person is someone who is joyfully independent of outer conditions.

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