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"The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during meditation, remember that reluctance to meditate comes from the ego; it doesn't belong to the soul."
"The way to freedom is through service to others. The way to happiness is through meditation and being in tune with God... break the barriers of your ego, shed selfishness, free yourself from the consciousness of the body, forget yourself, do away with this prison house of incarnations, melt your heart in all, be one with creation."
"Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness."
"Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit."
"Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various ways of meditation in which drugs are no longer necessary or useful. If you get the message, hang up the phone. For psychedelic drugs are simply instruments, like microscopes, telescopes, and telephones. The biologist does not sit with eye permanently glued to the microscope, he goes away and works on what he has seen."
"Do one thing at a Time, and while doing it put your whole Soul into it to the exclusion of all else."
"All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own mind."
"If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience."
"Mind is there, in front of you. Don't log in."
"There is no meditation without wisdom, and there is no wisdom without meditation. When a man has both meditation and wisdom, he is indeed close to nirvana."
"[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself."
"Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself."
"You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it."
"I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop."
"When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem reveals itself and it is solved. That happens when the mind is still, in the interval between two thoughts, between two responses. In that state of mind, understanding comes."
"It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts."
"Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare, 'I and my Father are One.'"
"I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats."
"If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world."
"You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are,and realize the rest is a projection of your mind."
