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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Meditation

"What I wish to show by these feats of strength is that prayer and meditation can definitely increase one's outer capacities. I hope that by doing this I will be able to inspire many people to pray and meditate sincerely as part of their regular daily routine. my message is that if one needs strength, then uncovering one's inner strength through prayer and meditation is the fastest and most effective way to get it."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Meditation

"Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Meditation

"You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else."

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Meditation

"When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously"

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Sri Chinmoy Spiritual Teacher, Poet, Musician
Meditation

"Meditation upon the unknown Thought He thought was real meditation. No, meditation is not and cannot be On any thought. Meditation is a conscious withdrawal From the thought-world. Meditation is the place Where Reality, Divinity and Immortality Can each claim their own Perennial existence-light."

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Sun Bu'er Taoist
Meditation

"The relic from before birth Enters one's heart one day. Be as careful as if you were holding a full vessel, Be as gentle as if you were caressing an infant. The gate of earth should be shut tight, The portals of heaven should be first opened. Wash the yellow sprouts clean, And atop the mountain is thunder shaking the earth."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Meditation

"Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Meditation

"First, meditation should be of a negative nature. Think away everything. Analyse everything that comes in the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we really are-existence, knowledge, and bliss-being, knowing, and loving."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Meditation

"Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Meditation

"Meditation is a sort of prayer and prayer is meditation. The highest meditation is to think of nothing. If you can remain one moment without thought, great power will come."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Meditation

"Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands. Every time you meditate you will keep your growth."

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Swami Vivekananda Spiritual Leader, Philosopher
Meditation

"Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work."

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