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Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

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At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against…
Human relationships are the perfect tool for sanding away our rough edges and getting at the core of divinity within us.
Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or…
Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity…
As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that…
As we get deeper, we move closer and closer to other people; we feel closer to life as a whole.
The Sufis advise us to speak only after our words have managed to pass through three gates. At the first gate, we…
The things we think about, brood on, dwell on, and exult over influence our life in a thousand ways. When we can…
Nothing really worth having comes quickly and easily. If it did, I doubt that we would ever grow.
A calm mind releases the most precious capacity a human being can have: the capacity to turn anger into compassion, fear into…
Don't think the purpose of meditation is to go deep into consciousness, wrap a blanket around yourself, and say, 'How cozy! I'm…
God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked…

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If you have your full attention in the moment, you will see only love. — Deepak Chopra

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