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Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. — Rama Swami
The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence. — Swami Muktananda
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. — Michel de Montaigne
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. — Stephen Levine
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation — Dalai Lama
Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going, with no judgments… — Huineng
Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is strong, the mind… — Henry Rollins
We must meditate before, during and after everything we do. The prophet says: "I will pray, and then I will understand." This is the way… — Carlo Borromeo
In order to succeed in it (prayer), it should be done when we first awaken, when our whole being is calm and recollected. We need… — Peter Julian Eymard
In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality… — Rajneesh
Meditation is enough. Everything else follows on its own. — Rajneesh
Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere. — Rajneesh
To me a man of meditation is bound to be immensely loving. — Rajneesh
It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle… — Rajneesh
Hence my insistence that music and meditation should go together. That adds a new dimension to both. Both are enriched by it. — Rajneesh
Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for… — Rajneesh
When I use the words 'inner journey', I simply mean that you have looked at one aspect of the journey in your life called 'outer',… — Rajneesh
First prepare the ground, then prayer happens on its own accord. Prayer is something that you cannot do. Meditation is something that you can do… — Rajneesh
Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this is not a… — Rajneesh
Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to go on living… — Rajneesh
Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own… — Rajneesh
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation. — Raul Julia
My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind… — Edward Abbey
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we… — Sogyal Rinpoche
Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time. — Swami Satchidananda

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