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Meditation Quotes by Nhat Hanh
- We try many ways to be awake, but our society still keeps us forgetful. Meditation is to help us remember.
- Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.
- There are many ways to calm a negative energy without suppressing or fighting it. You recognize it, you smile to it, and you invite something…
- Every path, every street in the world is your walking meditation path.
- To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the world. When we…
- You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm…
- Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
- Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each…
- Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.
- Meditation is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, in our feelings, in our minds, and in the world. Each…
- Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society.
- Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that…
- Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn to let go.…
- When you look at the sun during your walking meditation, the mindfulness of the body helps you to see that the sun is in you;…
- In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living…
- Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
- Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in…
- If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in the…
- Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do…
- If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine. You get in…
- Life is available only in the present moment.
- Feelings, whether of compassion or irritation, should be welcomed, recognized, and treated on an absolutely equal basis; because both are ourselves. The tangerine I am…
- Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment I know this is the only moment.
- Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
- In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.
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- 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
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- No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation. — Walter Bagehot
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