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Meditation

«Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.»
Author: Francis Quarles (Poet) | About: Meditation | Keywords: Action The
«I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.»
«Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit»
Author: Jeremy Taylor (Bishop, Clergyman, Writer) | About: Meditation | Keywords: meditation
«After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn?t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked?as I am surprisingly often?why I bother to get up in the mornings.»
«Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.»
Author: William Cowper (Poet) | About: Heart, Meditation | Keywords: meditation
«If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts. »
Author: Alan Cohen | About: Meditation
«Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless - like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.»
«Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.»
«Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.»
«I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.»