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"What is important in meditation is the quality of the mind and the heart.It is not what you achieve, or what you say you attain, but rather the quality of a mind that is innocent and vulnerable."
"We owe much to the fruitful meditation of our sages, but a sane view of life is, after all, elaborated mainly in the kitchen."
"You are the knower of knowledge; you perceive perceiving. Come to this place, and see if any questions remain there within you."
"My stories are sometimes closer to poems or meditations, but often there is at least a little narrative in them."
"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 results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort."
"There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt."
"In order to meditate correctly, you must have knowledge."
"You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?""
"In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom to manifest"
"One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That’s not considered to be a problem. The point is to see it."
"The whole life of man is but a point of time; let us enjoy it."
"It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe."
"Meditation is culture."
"The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the spirit within."
"There are many meditation techniques, and it's important to find one that resonates with you."
"Such a person needs meditation more than anyone else because they are headed for a crisis. If stress and anxiety are so great that you can't even imagine a calm clear mind, that indicates you are reaching your coping limits, and need to begin something like meditation just for the stress reduction benefits."
"Through silence, through meditation, and through non-judgment, you will access the first law, the Law of Pure Potentiality."
"Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor."
"If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present."
"I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises like meditation."
