Meditation Quotes — Page 31

Gautama Buddha

Spiritual Teacher

“Those who walk in the Way should avoid sensualism as those who carry hay would avoid coming near the fire.”

Fire Meditation Hay

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Mariel Hemingway

Actress, Author

“The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.”

Book Powerful Meditation

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Philosopher, Speaker

“Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.”

Spiritual Understanding

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Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Teacher, Author

“If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.”

Mind Nature

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Jiddu Krishnamurti

Philosopher, Speaker

“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.”

People Memories Meditation

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.”

May Meditation Technique

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.”

Imagination Compassion Meditation

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Dalai Lama

Spiritual Leader

“In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time.”

Practice Three Meditation

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Paul McCartney

Musician, Singer-songwriter

“I believe that in the future meditation could be as commonplace in schools and society as eco-awareness is now. It interests me that an ancient cure may be the solution to a modern problem.”

Believe School Meditation

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