Meditation quotations

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◆ Live simply. Deepest joy is like a flower....beautiful in essence.

- Tony Samara99

◆ I have lived with several Zen masters -- all of them cats.

- Eckhart Tolle99

◆ Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

- Pata?jali99

◆ Rejection is an opportunity for your selection.

- Bernard Branson99

◆ Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of humanity

- Tony Samara99

◆ We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young -- not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age -- and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti99

◆ You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.

- J.D. Salinger99

◆ The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is.

- Jiddu Krishnamurti99

◆ Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.

- Pata?jali99

◆ A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

- Michael Bassey Johnson99

◆ Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.

- Allan Lokos99

◆ If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.

- Christopher McDougall99

◆ Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.

- Michael Ondaatje99

◆ As spiritual searchers we need to become freer and freer of the attachment to our own smallness in which we get occupied with me-me-me. Pondering on large ideas or standing in front of things which remind us of a vast scale can free us from acquisitiveness and competitiveness and from our likes and dislikes. If we sit with an increasing stillness of the body, and attune our mind to the sky or to the ocean or to the myriad stars at night, or any other indicators of vastness, the mind gradually stills and the heart is filled with quiet joy. Also recalling our own experiences in which we acted generously or with compassion for the simple delight of it without expectation of any gain can give us more confidence in the existence of a deeper goodness from which we may deviate. (39)

- Ravi Ravindra99

◆ Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

- Daniel Quinn99