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Alice Walker Novelist, Poet
Meditation

"Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here."

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Viktor E. Frankl Psychiatrist, Neurologist
Meditation

"...to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life-daily and hourly. Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct."

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Meditation

"Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]"

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Meditation

"A man, doubtful of his dinner, or trembling at a creditor, is not much disposed to abstracted meditation, or remote enquiries."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Meditation

"Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Meditation

"Meditation simplifies our outer life and energizes our inner life. Meditation gives us a natural and spontaneous life, a life that becomes so natural and spontaneous that we cannot breathe without being conscious of our own divinity."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Meditation

"Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself. We have seen the Truth. We have felt the Truth. But the most important thing is to grow into the Truth and become totally one with the Truth. If we are concentrating on God, we may feel God right in front of us or besides us. When we are meditating, we are bound to feel Infinity, Eternity, Immortality within us. But when we are contemplating, we will see that we ourselves are Infinity, Eternity, Immortality."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Meditation

"The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation. In meditation we divest ourselves of all material conditions and feel our divine nature. We do not depend upon any external help in meditation. The touch of the soul can paint the brightest color even in the dingiest places; it can cast a fragrance over the vilest thing; it can make the wicked divine-and all enmity, all selfishness is effaced."

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Jack Kerouac Novelist, Poet
Meditation

"Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy."

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Isaac Watts Hymn Writer, Poet
Meditation

"Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation."

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