Gautama Buddha
Spiritual Teacher
"Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change."
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Meditation
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Saint Francis de Sales
Saint, Bishop
"Half an hour's meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed."
Pythagoras
Philosopher, Mathematician
"Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb."
Isaac Newton
Mathematician, Physicist, Astronomer
"Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation."
Ramakrishna
Spiritual Leader
"Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance. But when God is realised within, that is true knowledge."
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"There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in Brindaban and the colloquy on the field of Kurukshetra. The siege of Troy created Hellas, the exile in Brindaban created devotional religion, (for before there was only meditation and worship), Christ from his cross humanized Europe, the colloquy at Kurukshetra will yet liberate humanity."
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"By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise."
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"Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the image of God. We don't understand the great secrets hidden inside of us."
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"If you let cloudy water settle, it will become clear. If you let your upset mind settle, your course will also become clear."
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"The key is to be in a state of permanent connectedness with your inner body - to feel it at all times. This will rapidly deepen and transform your life. The more consciousness you direct into the inner body, the higher its vibrational frequency becomes."
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"When an evil-doer, seeing you practise goodness, comes and maliciously insults you, you should patiently endure it and not feel angry with him, for the evil-doer is insulting himself by trying to insult you."
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"Whatever anyone does or says, I must be emerald and keep my colour."
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"Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments."
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"Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises."
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"I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the gods are within us. This is the great realization of the Upanishads of India in the ninth century B.C. All the gods, all the heavens, all the worlds, are within us. They are magnified dreams, and dreams are manifestations in image form of the energies of the body in conflict with each other."
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"If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja"
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"Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind."
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"So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you will find there is silence, a total emptiness. The mind is uncontaminated by society; it is no longer subject to any influence, to the pressure of any desire. It is completely alone, and being alone, untouched it is innocent. Therefore there is a possibility for that which is timeless, eternal, to come into being. This whole process is meditation."
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"The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of you, depend on no one. Only the moment you reject all help are you freed. - Buddha No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path."
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"Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body."
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"Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance."
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"I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him."
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"Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit."
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"Movement is my medicine, my meditation, my metaphor and my method, a living language we can rely upon to tell us the truth about who we are, who we are with, and where we are going. There is no dogma in the dance."
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"Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence."
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