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Meditation Quotes by Dalai Lama
- Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect…
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.…
- If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation
- If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they…
- If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.
- If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.
- Now you are on the Buddhist way. Keep up your meditation, as there is no instant illumination. The mind moves slowly into this. Do not…
- ...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.
- Change only takes place through action, not through meditation and prayer.
- The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external foe, but is…
- To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer.
- In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge.
- All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way…
- Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible.
- Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.
- Love and compassion are necessities, not luxuries. Without them humanity cannot survive.
- Sleep is the best meditation.
- Where ignorance is our master, there is no possibility of real peace.
- We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.
- With realization of one's own potential and self-confidence in one's ability, one can build a better world.
- There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.
- Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
- If you don't love yourself, you cannot love others. You will not be able to love others. If you have no compassion for yourself then…
- When you think everything is someone else's fault, you will suffer a lot. When you realize that everything springs only from yourself, you will learn…
- To develop genuine devotion, you must know the meaning of teachings. The main emphasis in Buddhism is to transform the mind, and this transformation depends…
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- It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
- The energy of the mind is the essence of life. — Aristotle
- He who lives in harmony with himself lives in harmony with the universe. — Marcus Aurelius
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. — Marcus Aurelius
- We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in… — Teresa of Avila
- No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
- Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch… — Roseanne Barr
- Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done. — Josh Billings
- I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles. — Russell Brand
- When you cease from labour, fill up your time in reading, meditation, and prayer: and while your hands are labouring, let your… — David Brainerd
- We should so provide for old age that it may have no urgent wants of this world to absorb it from meditation… — Pearl S. Buck
- The mind is more powerful than anything. So, during the birth I wasn't thinking about the pain. I was in a meditation… — Gisele Bundchen