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“In meditation you first get sense control. And yoga will help you with the body and when the mind is steady, concentration will come automatically. When you get such concentration, then you get peace of mind.”
“In meditation, you train your body to be still and your mind to slow down and focus on a point of concentration.”
Source: Meditation for Beginners: How to Meditate for People Who Hate to Sit Still
“In meditation you withdraw from others and focus your attention inside to gain purity of mind and wisdom energy. Then you must become extroverted and use this energy. When you take a long jump, you must first take some steps backward. Then you run, and make the jump. Like this, you first withdraw, observe yourself, develop clarity and unlock the wisdom. Then you make a long jump into society, to serve society. These two steps cannot be separated.”
“In meditation, as you go into the causal dimensions, the planes of light, you will be purified, energized and you will become wise.”
“In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen.”
“In meditation, it is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to become devoid of all mental thoughts, so what we want to do is fill the mind with those thoughts that induce positive feelings of peace, relaxation or happiness.”
“In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person. The old personality is nowhere to be found. You have to start your life again from abc. You have to learn everything with fresh eyes, with a totally new heart. That's why meditation creates fear.”
“In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended.
In Illumination, all things appear as is.
Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom.
The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.”
“In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.”
“In meditation, whatever happens is bound to be expressed in creativity.”
“In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.”
“In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you see through the illusions of the material world.”
Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap
“In meditation...the power of God begins to reflect in the clear waters of your consciousness.”
“In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.”
“In meeting again after a separation, acquaintances ask after our outward life, friends after our inner life.”
“In meetings philosophy might work,
on the field practicality works.”
“In Mein Kampf, Hitler sounded almost like Nietzsche when talking about the preparation of a superman or the coming of the Messiah; while leaving no doubt that he was the anointed one.”
“In Melbourne they have more need of cake,” said Stefan, “having more or less nothing else.”
Source: The Women in Black
“In melodies of longing, my heart does play,
A saxophonist's soul, in love's ballet.
Our meetings planned, yet fate intervenes,
A cosmic dance, behind the scenes.
His saxophone whispers in the midnight air,
Each note a promise, a love affair.
Yet life's interruptions, a relentless rhyme,
But through the strains, love stands the test of time.
In dreams, I see his star ascending high,
Prosperity blooms beneath the sky.
His saxophone weaves dreams untold,
A symphony of success, a story to unfold.
I yearn for his pain to gently sway,
In the cadence of a brighter day.
For within my love, a healing balm,
To soothe his soul, bring tranquil calm.
As dreams align, and stars align,
May his saxophone play a melody divine.
In the crescendo of life, may joy take flight,
And love's song serenade the darkest night.”
“In memoir, can you really tell the truth about yourself? You're not going to write about your little peccadilloes, like, "I like a finger in my ass during sex." Or whatever it is. You're not going to come out in typical everyday conversation and say that. That's something that's going to be only for a select few.”
“In memorable words of management theorist Chester Barnard, 'To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have bee.”
“IN MEMORIAM: FLIGHT 752
I try to envisage the passengers
seated in neat rows.
Everyone knows the real risk
is at take-off and landing,
but after an hour delay,
their plane was soaring. Relieved,
they whispered prayers, dreaming
of families and friends at arrival gates
clutching coffee cups and bouquets.
I like to think it was calm,
the plane blanketed by night’s caress.
Cellphones put away,
the cabin lights dimmed,
babies cooing in cots,
and refreshments on their way.
176 hearts beating in one narrow womb.
Closer to the heavens,
I know their journey was short—
earth angels for a while
who were returning home.”
“IN MEMORIAM: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE
She whom we love, our Lady of Compassion,
Can never die, for Love forbids her death.
Love has bent down in his old kindly fashion,
And breathed upon her his immortal breath.
On wounded soldiers, in their anguish lying,
Her gentle spirit shall descend like rain.
Where the white flag with the red cross is flying,
There shall she dwell, the vanquisher of pain.”
Source: Summer of Love
“In memories
and dreams
you and I
are still one.”
“In memorizing the prayer, it may be helpful to remind yourself that you are not addressing some extraterrestrial being outside you. The kingdom of heaven is within us, and the Lord is enshrined in the depths of our own consciousness. In this prayer we are calling deep into ourselves, appealing to the spark of the divine that is our real nature.”
Source: The Undiscovered Country: Exploring the Promise of Death
“In memory each of us is an artist: each of us creates.”
“In memory everything seems to happen to music.”
Source: The Glass Menagerie
“In Memory of BPP Comrades Fred Hampton & Mark Clark, both assassinated by the US Government via the state and local government of Chicago, Illinois, December 4, 1969.”
“In memory of Emily we would like everyone to go out and do random acts of kindness, random acts of love to your friends or your neighbors or your fellow students because there is no way to make sense of this. It's what Emily would have wanted.”
“In memory Venice is always magic.”
Source: Italian Days
“In memory's telephoto lens, far objects are magnified.”
Source: Odd Jobs: Essays and Criticism
“In memory, you can access something from the past, anything that you've experienced that you remember - it's there. Now, you might have a memento of it in a photograph or in a film or a building or some clothes that you wore. There might be something that connects you to this memory. But all of us are just all caught in this time, whatever that is.”
“In men desire begets love, and in women love begets desire.”
Source: Letters, Written by the Late Jonathan Swift ... and Several of His Friends: From the Year 1703-to 1740. Published from the Originals; with Notes Explanatory and Historical
“In Men in Black, it was a very small character, no pun intended.”
“In men of the highest character and noblest genius there is to be found an insatiable desire for honor, command, power, and glory.”
“In men, there is the familiar distinction between the Madonna on a pedestal and the lowlife whore, in the sense that they elevate the love object to unknown—and, above all, unattainable—heights. These are the super-conventional husbands who respect their wives. They often respect them so much that they become psychologically impotent. The shadow of the for-bidden mother covers the beloved in this cloak of respect, so that any sexual approach becomes impossible. However, this impotence wholly melts away, together with the respect, when such a man goes to a whore, either in his imagination or in reality. The pendulum swings the other way, because in this case the woman, in the figure of the whore, is humiliated just as much as the wife-mother is extolled. The dimension of lust appears here, inevitably accompanied by feelings of guilt. It is in this context that we come across the typical male fantasy, well known to every prostitute, of 'saving' a woman. A large number of her clients want to 'save' her from her ruin. They want to restore to her the status of being an object of love. In other words, they want her to become a wife-mother, which brings them back to respect, and completes the circle. Interestingly, in either case, whether he saves her or humiliates her, the power lies with the man. This in itself is a rewrite of the original mother-child scenario. His position has shifted from passive to active.”
“In men whom men condemn as ill
I find so much of goodness still,
In men whom men pronounce divine
I find so much of sin and blot,
I do not dare to draw a line
Between the two, where God has not.”
Source: Life Amongst the Modocs: Unwritten History
“In men, we various ruling passions find; In women, two almost divide the kind Those, only fixed, they first or last obey, The love of pleasure, and the love of sway.”
“In Mendrisio I felt it - the exhilaration of what the bike has to offer. It's a simple machine that conjures a vast mix of emotions. It can evoke the senses and raise the spirits of people who watch. For those who ride it can seem like the perfect vehicle for transport. For those who race, there's no better sensation than being on top of your gear making mountains feel like flat roads. Cycling throws up plenty of obstacles, unknown territory, high speed split-second considerations. Where to next? What's around the next corner? Who cares? You're flyin'!”
“In mental health advocacy, I've found that sometimes, when people reach out for help, they come with a predetermined solution in mind. They aren't really looking for guidance, but validation. It's like trying to conduct a research project with the conclusion already written before you even begin. Without openness to new perspectives, there's no real room for growth, only a reinforcement of existing beliefs that may not serve them.”
“In mercy, God has called you and saved, healed, blessed and delivered you.”
“In Mere Christianity, C. S. Lewis argues that human beings cannot be truly good or moral without faith in God and without submis- sion to the will of Christ. Unfortunately, Lewis does not provide any actual data for his assertions. They are nothing more than the mild musings of a wealthy British man, pondering the state of humanity’s soul between his sips of tea. Had Lewis actually famil- iarized himself with real human beings of the secular sort, per- haps sat and talked with them, he would have had to reconsider this notion. As so many apostates explained to me, morality is most certainly possible beyond the confines of faith. Can people be good without God? Can a moral orientation be sustained and developed outside of a religious context? The answer to both of these questions is a resounding yes.”
Source: Faith No More: Why People Reject Religion
“In mere moments of togetherness, families forge their most indelibe memories.”
“In merging nature and culture the most successful cities combine such universal needs as maintaining or restoring contact with the cycles of nature, with specific, local characteristics.”
Source: Chicago's Urban Nature: A Guide to the City's Architecture + Landscape
“In metaphysical training, a hidden truth is that spiritual power is released by going backwards!”
Source: The Sun at Midnight: The Revealed Mysteries of the Ahlul Bayt Sufis
“In metaphysics, the notion that earth and all that's on it is a mental construct is the product of people who spend their lives inside rooms. It is an indoor philosophy.”
Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
“In Method acting, you can't have preconceived ideas. You have to live in the moment. You have to keep yourself open.”
“In metric, one milliliter of water occupies one cubic centimeter, weighs one gram, and requires one calorie of energy to heat up by one degree centigrade—which is 1 percent of the difference between its freezing point and its boiling point. An amount of hydrogen weighing the same amount has exactly one mole of atoms in it. Whereas in the American system, the answer to ‘How much energy does it take to boil a room-temperature gallon of water?’ is ‘Go fuck yourself,’ because you can’t directly relate any of those quantities.”
Source: Wild Thing
“In metropolitan cases, the love of the most single-eyed lover, almost invariably, is nothing more than the ultimate settling of innumerable wandering glances upon some one specific object.”
Source: Pierre or The Ambiguities
“In Mexico an air conditioner is called a politician because it makes a lot of noise but doesn't work very well.”