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Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

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Nassim Nicholas TalebThe Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms

If you retain the joyous aftereffects of meditation throughout the day, or part of the day, you will...

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Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate...

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The Warrior of the Light meditates.

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Paulo CoelhoWarrior of the Light

The problem with introspection is that it has no end.

Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world's true or lies,may do so. I...

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Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. 'I am that I am' sums up the whole truth. The method ...

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If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the st...

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Ramana MaharshiThe Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi

They will become Godly when they will have God in their hearts.

Meditation puts reason in its authority and preeminence. It helpeth to deliver it form its captivity...

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Richard BaxterThe Saints' Everlasting Rest

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding havi...

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I want to talk about another kind of high country now in the world of thought, which in some ways, f...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Mountains should be climbed with as little effort as possible and without desire. The reality of you...

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Robert M. PirsigZen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.

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Ruth OzekiA Tale for the Time Being

To study the self is to forget the self. Maybe if you sat enough zazen, your sense of being a solid,...

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Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive th...

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That which is aware of sadness is not sad. That which is aware of fear is not fearful. The moment I ...

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If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each ...

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Sam HarrisWaking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion

Each meditation should last hours - three, four, six hours.

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through...

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Gnostics should practice meditation for at least 4 to 6 hours per day; practicing in the morning, th...

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We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the still...

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Samael Aun WeorThe Revolution of the Dialectic: A Practical Guide to Gnostic Psychology and Meditation

Whenever and wherever you put yourself in touch with GOD, that is the state of meditation.

In zazen, leave your front door and your back door open. Let thoughts come and go. Just don't serve ...

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One time Marian showed me some sand. When she gave it to me, she said, "These are very interesting s...

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Shunryu SuzukiNot Always So: Practicing the True Spirit of Zen

While you are continuing this practice, week after week, year after year, your experience will becom...

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Have little,Need less:This is the wayTo inner peace.Surrender is a journeyFrom the outer turmoilTo t...

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Meditation is like going to the bottom of the sea, where everything is calm and tranquil. On the sur...

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Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent is the eloquent expression of the inexpress...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Silent Teacher: A Beginner's Guide to Meditation

Beyond speech and mind,Into the river of ever-effulgent LightMy heart dives.Today thousands of doors...

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

I meditateSo that I can inundateMy entire beingWith the omnipotent power of peace.

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Sri ChinmoyThe Wings of Joy: Finding Your Path to Inner Peace

It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully ...

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The person healed has an obligation to then ask why— to meditate on God's will, and the extraordinar...

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The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter wit...

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Sue Monk KiddTraveling With Pomegranates: A Mother-Daughter Story

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait ...

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Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisp...

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Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life," murmured Niko. "They bring new food for shore creatu...

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It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by o...

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Teresa of ÁvilaThe Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a...

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We must approach our meditation realizing that 'grace,' 'mercy,' and 'faith' are not permanent inali...

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There is a 'movement' of meditation, expressing the basic 'paschal' rhythm of the Christian life, th...

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Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see i...

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Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and...

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The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagi...

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The man who fears to be alone will never be anything but lonely, no matter how much he may surround ...

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Everything in modern city life is calculated to keep man from entering into himself and thinking abo...

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Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by re...

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Thomas MertonThe Intimate Merton: His Life from His Journals

Meditation,” said his teacher, “hasn’t got a damn thing to do with anything, ‘cause all it has to do...

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Tom RobbinsFierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates

Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me...

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Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objecti...

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If you just sit and observe, you will see how restless your mind is. If you try to calm it, it only ...

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The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand...

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ZhuangziThe Complete Works of Chuang Tzu

Suffering is normal. Pain is normal, it is part of life... What is its texture, the weight of our su...

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A. M. HomesThis Book Will Save Your Life

At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides pote...

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AberjhaniIlluminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

The gentle pulsing and flickering of stars and nebulae made a kind of music, a sweet easy mesh of wh...

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AberjhaniSongs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.

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AberjhaniVisions of a Skylark Dressed in Black

That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip...

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Ahdaf SoueifI Think of You: Stories

The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to at...

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Between the desolate earth and the colorless sky appeared an Image of the ungrateful world in which,...

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Choiceless awareness - at every moment and in all the circumstances of life - is the only effective ...

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Woe to that seven months abortion who thinks to take advantage of the accidents of birth, and, mocki...

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For, indeed, this is the great horror, solitude, when the soul can no longer bathe in the ever-chang...

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Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments...

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Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beau...

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Echo of your thoughts are more important than your actions because that has greater impact on the wo...

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Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.

You are the Golden Witnessing Screen. Meditation is the effortless effort to keep that screen clean,...

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Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.

Meditation, education and beauty are the three transforming powers that can change individual and th...

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Vipassana meditation is not an intellectual journey but an experiential awakening.

Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that my...

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The greatest luxury of life is peaceful breathing because it repairs the wounds of the cosmic soul.

Meditation is to understand that one breath, which connects all beings.

Breathing is our participation with the cosmic dance. When our breath is in harmony, cosmos nourishe...

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Amit RayBeautify your Breath - Beautify your Life

Beauty is the moment when time vanishes. Beauty is the space where eternity arises.

Enlightenment is tuning our consciousness to music of the universe.

And suddenly you realize: you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising.

Enlightenment comes when you understand the language of heart - the language of tree, birds and the ...

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Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpilla...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

At the core of your heart, you are perfect and pure. No one and nothing can alter that.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is a journey from negative-mindset to positive-mindset. It is a means to stay positive an...

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The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom o...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Bhramari Om Chanting or Humming Om chanting sends positive messages to the brain and the cells in ou...

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Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating o...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how m...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connectio...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling...

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Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is blossoming of the prefrontal cortex to overcome the momentum of the nature. It is comi...

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Through systematic meditation one can awaken the third eye and touch the cosmic awareness. Sushumna ...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Meditation is a journey to know yourself. Knowing yourself has many layers. Start knowing your bodil...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Equanimity is the hallmark of spirituality. It is neither chasing nor avoiding but just being in the...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure...

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations

Discover your deep inner-self and from that place spread love in every direction.

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Amit RayMeditation: Insights and Inspirations