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"I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or the trees or animals, than small, inane, you know, banter."
"When people tell me they're trying to meditate, I always know they don't have a format yet that works. I encourage a real meditative format that you use daily, because meditation is incremental and it only works if done every day."
"A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind."
"Meditation is all about connecting with your soul. Part of maintaining your well-being is taking the time to disconnect from the outside to go within."
"The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical postures other than the traditional cross-legged meditation pose."
"If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material."
"Yoga, like meditation, offers a method for coming together after you've come apart."
"We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up."
"Language alone protects us from the scariness of things with no names. Language alone is meditation."
"Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both."
"Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically."
"To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us."
"When I meditate, I clearly see that God is already seated inside my heart."
"Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible."
"If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to have joy and offer joy to the world at large, then meditation is the only answer."
"I'm quite a neurotic thinker, quite an adrenalized person. But after meditation, I felt this beautiful serenity and selfless connection."
"Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing."
"He is a letter to everyone. You open it. It says, Live."
"Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour."
"Wakefulness is the way to life. The fool sleeps As if he were already dead, But the master is awake And he lives forever."
