"Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately."
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"Ultimately, meditation can allow us to have happiness independent of conditions and that is one heck of an awesome claim"
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"Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation."
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"You are a little soul bearing about a corpse, as Epictetus used to say."
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"When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form."
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"I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results."
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"I’d like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I’ve tried to meditate, but it’s really hard for me to stay still. I’d like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can’t shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key."
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"It is enough that one surrenders oneself. Surrender is giving oneself up to the original cause of one's being. Do not delude yourself by imagining this source to be some God outside you. One's source is within oneself. Give yourself up to it. That means that you should seek the source and merge in it."
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"Life is this simple: we are living in a world that is absolutely transparent and the divine is shining through it all the time. This is not just a nice story or a fable, it is true."
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"Just one smile Immensely increases the beauty Of the universe."
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"To meditate is to observe yourself, for you are totally responsible for your body, mind, thought."
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"That which we do not bring to consciousness appears in our lives as fate."
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"Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us."
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""I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done."
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"If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate."
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"When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it."
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"Because I am a Christian, therefore, every day in which I do not penetrate more deeply into the knowledge of God's Word in Holy Scripture is a lost day for me. I can only move forward with certainty upon the firm ground of the Word of God. And, as a Christian, I learn to know the Holy Scriptures in no other way than by hearing the Word preached and by prayerful meditation."
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"You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area."
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"Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together."
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"Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone"
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