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Sinclair Lewis Novelist
Meditation

"It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others."

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Robert Anton Wilson Author, Philosopher
Meditation

"I read everything, including the labels on canned food. I'm a hopeless print addict, a condition alleviated only by daily meditation which breaks the linear-Aristotelian trance. National Lampoon, Scientific American are what I read most obsessively."

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Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Spiritual Leader
Meditation

"In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Meditation

"Real meditation is not done by us. It is done by our Inner Pilot, the Supreme, who is constantly meditating in and through us. We are just the vessel, and we are allowing Him to fill us with His whole Consciousness."

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Naomi Watts Actress
Meditation

"I meditate. I do transcendental meditation and I have been doing that for a long time and that does just clear the mind. I am not religious at all."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Meditation

"Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day."

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Jiddu Krishnamurti Philosopher, Speaker
Meditation

"Let the mind be empty, and not filled with the things of the mind. Then there is only meditation, and not a meditor who is meditating . . . The mind must be clear, without movement, and in the light of that clarity the timeless will be revealed."

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