"Endurance is one of the most difficult disciplines but it is to the one who endures that the final victory comes."
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"In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality."
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"Meditation means to look deeply, to touch deeply, so we can realize we are already home."
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"Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity."
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"In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding."
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"Let the mind come as it wants; just you don't go with it. The greatest salesman in the world cannot sell you if you don't buy."
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"Meditation is like giving a hug to our ourselves, getting in touch whith that awesome reality in us. While meditating we feel a deep sense of intimacy with God, a love that is inexplicable."
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"Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found."
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"Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship to the event."
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"Wrong thoughts are inside us just because we identify ourselves with these thoughts. If we identify with something else, immediately they have to leave us."
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"In Silence there is eloquence. Stop weaving and see how the pattern improves."
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"Misfortunes often sharpen the genius."
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"The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it. (21)"
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"By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear."
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"Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace."
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"See who is the subject; and this inquiry leads you to pure Consciousness beyond the subject."
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"We live life in the marketplace and then we go off to the cave or to the meditation mat to replenish ourselves."
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"Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction."
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"Om is the pointed piece and Dhyâna (meditation) is the friction."
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"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: our life is the creation of our mind. If a man speaks or acts with an impure mind, suffering will follow him as the wheel of the cart follows the beast that draws the cart. If a man speaks or acts with a pure mind, joy follows him as his own shadow."
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