"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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"Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives. It's about seeing how we react to all these things. It's seeing our emotions and thoughts just as they are right now, in this very moment, in this very room, on this very seat. It's about not trying to make them go away, not trying to become better than we are, but just seeing clearly with precision and gentleness."
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"Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices."
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"He who would be serene and pure needs but one thing, detachment."
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"Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form."
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"Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts; distraction of mind is a sign of its weakness; by constant meditation it gains strength."
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"Do you think that you can clear your mind by sitting constantly in silent meditation? This makes your mind narrow, not clear. Integral awareness is fluid and adaptable, present in all places and at all times. That is true meditation. ... The Tao is clear and simple, and it doesn't avoid the world."
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"There is an intuitive knowing within us that we are eternal but this gets covered over with the noise we create while identifying with the impermanent."
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"Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form."
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"You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth."
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"Doing nothing is better than being busy doing nothing."
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"Backbends are to be felt more than expressed. The other postures can be expressed and then felt. Like in meditation each person has to feel backbends."
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"The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace."
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"Let go of anger. Let go of pride. When you are bound by nothing You go beyond sorrow."
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"We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow."
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