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Quotes About Meditation

The most time consuming process in the world is probably "thinking".
~ Amit Kalantri
It has taken me a lot of years, but I find silence is sometimes the best answer.
~ Stephen Richards
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted... but to weigh and consider.
~ Francis Bacon
My first meditation teacher told me that there is no such thing as a bad meditation. He was right. During the difficult meditations you build up your strength, which creates meditation for peace.
~ Ajahn Brahm
I used to think that prayer should have the first place and teaching the second. I now feel that it would be truer to give prayer the first, second and third place, and teaching the fourth.
~ James O. Fraser
You just listen to your own heart. That is your only teacher.
~ Rajneesh
There is no other teacher but your own soul.
~ Swami Vivekananda
When thoughts arise, recognize them clearly as your teacher.
~ Gampopa
Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.
~ Choa Kok Sui
If you sit with an enlightened teacher and silent your mind as they go into nirvana, suchness, the pure power of their aura will bring you on a journey into the world of perfection.
~ Frederick Lenz
Self-love is the first teacher of self-renunciation.
~ Swami Vivekananda
Your mind has a flood of questions. There is but one teacher Who can answer them. Who is that teacher? Your silence-loving heart.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Acquire new knowledge whilst thinking over the old, and you may become a teacher of others.
~ Confucius
Becoming enlightened is not special, but it's unusual.
~ Frederick Lenz
Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
~ Huston Smith
An advanced way to meditate, of course, is to focus on your teacher. If you have a spiritual teacher and you focus on them during mediation, then you access the light that flows through them.
~ Frederick Lenz
The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source, to your spiritual teacher or to a particular god or goddess.
~ Frederick Lenz
Remember you have lots of help. God is meditating in you and through you. The beneficent forces of existence are glad to help you. You can focus on any spiritual teacher. We are glad to help you.
~ Frederick Lenz
I've been thinking," he said. "Which is not an easy thing for a teacher to admit to.
~ John Barnes
Zbor din tine în tine
~ Amos Oz
Here is what you do. You ease yourself into a tub of water, you ease yourself down. You lie back and wait for the ripples to smooth away. Then you take a deep breath, and slide your head under, and listen for the playfulness of your heart.
~ Amy Hempel
I like the cursor blinking, the coffee drinking, the sitting thinking.
~ Amy Krouse Rosenthal
Una persona ha de reflexionar sobre el origen de las cosas. Cada comienzo conduce a un fin determinado.
~ Amy Tan
Introspection does not need to be a still life. It can be an active alchemy.
~ Anais Nin