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“The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.”

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Hakuin Ekaku

Hakuin Ekaku (1686-1769) was a renowned Japanese Zen monk, artist, calligrapher, painter, and poet. His works had a profound impact on Japanese Zen art, particularly known for his unique style of Zen painting. more

“Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.”

“Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.”

Writing Literature Disease Artistic Temperament Artistic Temperament

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.”

Ifs Knows Realizing Silence Meditation Soil Silence Is Truthfulness Meditating

Author:Yogaswami

“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.”

Purpose Pay Attention Practice Meditation Events Bears Mindfulness Ordinary Enlightenment Extraordinary Pay Attention Ordinary Life Meditation Practice

Author:Peter Matthiessen

“I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation than explained by human language.”

Humans Important Matter Language Attention Meditation Calling Understood Pious Human Language

Author:Martin Chemnitz

“Meditation is listening to the divine within”

Wisdom Spiritual Meditation Divine Listening Meditation Practice Meditation Mind

Book:Meditation, Prayer & Affirmations

Source: Meditation, Prayer & Affirmations

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