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One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. That’s not considered to be a problem. The point is to see it.

One of the regular intervals of meditation in my life, believe it or not, is in my car.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all their splendor many fair fruits of discourse and meditation in a plenteous crop of philosophy.

One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions that know a lot about the mind/body connection.

One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having given it a few minutes I come to the conclusion in the serenity of my heart and the peace of my conscience that he must be either an extreme megalomaniac or an utterly unconscious being.

Only a life of prayer and meditation will render a vessel ready for the Master's use.

Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.

Only meditation, only silence, only transcending beyond your mind is going to give you contentment and fulfillment.

Only when the clamor of the outside world is silenced will you be able to hear the deeper vibration. Listen carefully.

Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.

On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity.

On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion).

Our efforts to remove hatred and indifference from the world begin by trying to remove them from our own mind.

Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly.

perhaps there's no sharper spur to meditation than answered prayer.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

Peace is not a product of an intellectual exercise. It is an inner blossoming that occurs with meditation.

People think meditation is a huge undertaking.

People who meditate deeply find wonderful things happening in their life all the time.

Perception without the word, which is without thought, is one of the strangest phenomena. Then the perception is much more acute, not only with the brain, but also with all the senses. Such perception is not the fragmentary perception of the intellect nor the affair of the emotions. It can be called a total perception, and it is part of meditation.

Perhaps one of the greatest rewards of meditation and prayer is the sense of belonging that comes to us.

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.

Our greatest experiences are our quietest moments.

Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.

Painting is at once a form of meditation and an utter, complete personal engagement with life.

Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away.

Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.

Perception without the perceiver in meditation is to commune with the height and depth of the immense. This perception is entirely different from seeing an object without an observer, because in the perception of meditation there is no object and therefore no experience. can, however, take place when the eyes are open and one is surrounded by objects of every kind. But then these objects have no importance at all. One sees them but there is no process of recognition, which means there is no experiencing.

Place an object within your view, hopefully at about eye level. You might have to look down a little bit. Some people have a meditation table on which they put an object of concentration on.

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.

Playing 'Tetris' for 15 minutes is like meditation.

Pleasure is just a shadow of joy. When there is no joy in you, you become a pleasure seeker.

Prayer and meditation are my inner secret and my outer secret. My muscles are next to nothing compared to the muscles of the professional bodybuilders and weightlifters. It is because of the strength of my prayer-life and meditation-life that I am able to accomplish these feats of strength.

Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and other pastimes. The guideline for all experience is how you feel afterwards.

Pragmatism ... reflects with almost disarming candor the spirit of the prevailing business culture, the very same attitude of 'being practical' as counter to which philosophical meditation as such was conceived.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

Pray for a peaceful and contented mind in all circumstances.

Prayer is you speaking to God. Meditation is allowing the spirit to speak to you.

Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer.

Prayer is asking for guidance. Meditation is listening to it.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. God will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon the world or retreat to a jungle.

Problems arise when you identify with your thoughts and emotions. Try to be a witness to the thoughts instead of being totally identified with them.

Programming will aid a person in developing their mind and will aid their meditation. I find that people who have pursued programming are doing much better in their meditation.

Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith.

Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

Put your whole energy into meditation. Once you are centered in your being, once you know the inner path, then wherever you are you can manage to go to the center without any difficulty. Even when you are dying, it will not make any difference. You may be sick, it will not make any difference.