Best Meditating Quotes
140 Meditating quotes by 99 unique authors
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He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always…
— Boris Pasternak
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The man who sat on the ground in his tipi meditating on life and its meaning, accepting the kinship of all creatures and acknowledging unity…
— Luther Standing Bear
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Unless we're very intentional about meditating on these truths [that show God's love], they slip from our thoughts like misty dreams that evaporate in the…
— Elyse Fitzpatrick
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Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in…
— Sylvia Boorstein
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I wasn't really asleep I was just meditating on unconsciousness.
— Paul Bourget
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Group Meditation is a castle that protects the new spiritual aspirants as well as the veteran meditators. Meditating together increases the degree of Self-realization of…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the…
— Karlheinz Stockhausen
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Reading old travel books or novels set in faraway places, spinning globes, unfolding maps, playing world music, eating in ethnic restaurants, meeting friends in cafes…
— Phil Cousineau
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It was so interesting, when [John Coltrane] created A Love Supreme. He had meditated that week. I almost didn't see him downstairs. And it was…
— Alice Coltrane
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When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence,…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We…
— Sri Chinmoy
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The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world.
— Matthieu Ricard
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According to the American Psychological Association, the most effective stress-relief strategies are exercising or playing sports, praying or attending a religious service, reading, listening to…
— Kelly McGonigal
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For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to become…
— Tenzin Palmo
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Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still…
— Jet Li
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I can't do no literary work for the rest of this year because I'm meditating another lawsuit and looking around for a defendant.
— Mark Twain
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Eating a vegetarian diet, walking (exercising) everyday, and meditating is considered radical. Allowing someone to slice your chest open and graft your leg veins in…
— Dean Ornish
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So what you are doing, be aware, observe it, and then go on meditating. Soon you will begin to feel the change. Now there is…
— Rajneesh
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At one time I was praying for the salvation of sinners, and the Saviour appeared on the cross by me, and talked with me; I…
— Maria Woodworth-Etter
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No matter where I am in the world or what's on my schedule, I begin each day by reading an inspirational book and then meditating…
— Doreen Virtue
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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve…
— Adyashanti
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With the Rosary, we allow ourselves to be guided by Mary, model of faith, in meditating on the mysteries of Christ, and day after day…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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Celebration... is self restraint, is attentiveness, is questioning, is meditating, is awaiting, is the step over into the more wakeful glimpse of the wonder -…
— Martin Heidegger
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In meditating, meditate on your own divinity. The goal of life is to be a vehicle for something higher. Keep your eyes up there between…
— Joseph Campbell
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Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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