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“When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ to increase.”

Mind Able Causes Meditation Buddhism Increase Cosmos

Author:Frederick Lenz

“The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.”

Giving Past Suffering Causes Pleasure Meditation Ecstasy Hinduism Perpetual Krishna Transient Arjuna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify your prayer time, meditation, and good deeds. For if Satan's temptations merely cause you to increase your efforts to grow in holiness, he'll have an incentive to leave you alone.”

“With the happiness, ecstasy and power you gain from meditation, you can gradually remove your mind from the things it has become hooked to that cause it pain.”

Mind Pain Causes Meditation Mindfulness Gains Remove Ecstasy Hooked

Book:Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

Source: Surfing the Himalayas: conversations and travels with Master Fwap

“I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff. I just want to be out there eh to the last day of my life ah interested in the world, in causes, in helping other people. Um that doesn't mean that I don't have a spiritual practice, that I don't look at my own soul, that I don't prepare myself for the that transition that death is but I cannot sit in meditation to contemplate my navel for the rest of my life. That would be boring for me.”

“Mantras have an important place in meditation. But the idea has become somewhat prevalent in the West, and in the East to some extent, that the simple repetition of a mantra will eventually cause enlightenment”

Important Ideas Causes Simple Meditation Buddhism Enlightenment West East Repetition Mantras

Author:Frederick Lenz

“It is not a good idea to continually repeat a mantra during meditation. Repeating a mantra throughout your mediation causes you to fixate on a specific level of consciousness.”

Ideas Causes Levels Consciousness Meditation Buddhism Repeats Good Ideas Mantras Mediation

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled, collected, and focused in meditation; it is impossible for the heart to open.”

Ifs Mind Heart Action Pain Causes Meditation Impossible Conflict Focused Engaged

Book:Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

Source: Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation

“You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that... So that's the result of meditation; you could call that emotional balance.”

Causes Results Meditation Emotional Balance Stress Vulnerable Indifferent Insensitive Upheaval Emotional Balance Emotional Stress

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.”

States Causes Meditation Effects Relaxation Paradigm

Author:Roseanne Barr

“Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!”

Causes Prayer Lord Teach Meditation One Thing Praying Dignity Meditating

Book:The Need and the Blessing of Prayer

Source: The Need and the Blessing of Prayer

“The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering”

World Problem Suffering Causes Meditation Appearance Clinging

Author:Tilopa

“If you wish to experience peace, provide peace for another. If you wish to know that you are safe, cause another to know that they are safe. If you wish to better understand seemingly incomprehensible things, help another to better understand. If you wish to heal your own sadness or anger, seek to heal the sadness or anger of another.”

Ifs Knows Helping Wish Causes Peace Meditation Sadness Safe Heal Spiritual Wisdom Caring For Others People In Your Life Spiritual Healing

Author:Dalai Lama