Meditations Quotes
32 Meditations quotes by 29 unique authors
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If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in grace according to…
— John Owen
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My disciples are vegetarian not as a cult, not as a creed. They are vegetarians because their meditations make them more human, more of the…
— Rajneesh
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Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole life a meditation,…
— Rajneesh
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All meditations are nothing but efforts to bring you to the present. When you live in the present moment, with no past hanging around you,…
— Rajneesh
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If your creativity comes out of your silence, out of your Zen, out of your meditations, then it is authentic, original. If it comes only…
— Rajneesh
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I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe exists between what…
— Kim Hunter
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I used to think that people who regarded everyone benignly were a mite simple or oblivious or just plain lax-until I tried it myself. Then…
— Marc Ian Barasch
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Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.
— Gautama Buddha
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All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum, gathering momentum, so…
— U.G. Krishnamurti
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Appreciation empowers not just money transactions, but all interactions. Gratitude is one of the greatest meditations of a lifetime, the fastest attitude uplifter I know.…
— Alan Cohen
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Sleep is really important. You need to rest the physiology to be able to work weel and meditate well. When I don't get enough sleep,…
— David Lynch
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Whenever we strive to make progress in our meditations, contemplations and so forth we are practicing effort.
— Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
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It is the mark of a superior person that, left to themselves they are able endlessly to amuse, interest and entertain themselves out of their…
— George Jean Nathan
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Yoga is a way of moving into stillness in order to experience the truth of who you are. The practice of yoga is the practice…
— Erich Schiffmann
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Every person must live the inner life in one form or another. Consciously or unconsciously, voluntarily or involuntarily, the inner world will claim us and…
— Robert A. Johnson
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Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite ingenuity. Devotees like…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older we get the…
— Frederick Lenz
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Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this…
— Johannes Tauler
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My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them.
— Lydia Davis
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Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the…
— Donna Farhi
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A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us until the mouth…
— Richard Mitchell
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To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations which have occupied…
— Carl Friedrich Gauss
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What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no…
— Wallace Stevens
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After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I…
— Flann O'Brien
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What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope, for, by that…
— Jane Austen
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