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“You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give you the impetus to meditate.”

Giving Use Desire Meditation Buddhism Ego Going Away Innate Impetus

Author:Frederick Lenz

“You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled by their desires, your mind spins all over the place, your senses spin all over the place, out of control.”

Mind Humans Desire Purpose Human Beings Meditation Buddhism Filled Average Definitions Senses Controlled Vagueness

Author:Frederick Lenz

“All human beings have an innate desire to overcome suffering, to find happiness. Training the mind to think differently, through meditation, is one important way to avoid suffering and be happy.”

Thinking Way Mind Humans Important Desire Suffering Human Beings Meditation Training Overcoming Innate Finding Happiness Training The Mind

Author:Dalai Lama

“Art is not concerned with the meditation about what is and how it came to be. That is a task for knowledge. Knowledge is born of the desire to know, Art derives from the necessity to communicate and to announce.”

Knows Art Desire Born Meditation Communication Art Is Concerned Tasks Communicate

Book:Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

Source: Gabo on Gabo: Texts and Interviews

“Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.”

Mind Desire Emotion Meditation Capacity Mercy Wave

Author:Geneen Roth

“As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself.”

Light Pain Desire Practice Meditation Progress Buddhism Periods Sorrow Overcoming Bounds Limitation Meditation Practice

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a great deal of frustration.”

Desire Deals Path Meditation Offers Frustration Concentration Aversion Operating Systems

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the large; who doesn't have enough with enough is at the margin or virtue, for the physical body lives from one day to another and if it gets what it really needs, there will be time for meditation, as long as if we try to give it everything it desires, endless will be the task.”

Ifs Needs Giving Trying Littles Long Enough Body Care Able Desire Virtue Meditation One Day Appreciate Tasks Take Care Endless Unhappy Margins Physical Body

Author:Laozi

“Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.”

May Two Able Desire Effort Secret Meditation Particular Construction Display Mystical Trophies Secret Desire

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“If we go down into ourselves, we find that we possess exactly what we desire.”

Ifs Desire Meditation Awareness

Book:Gravity and Grace

Source: Gravity and Grace

“* Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He desires you to take in life. * Consider what God did for you when He sent Jesus to die on the cross (forgiveness and righteousness)”

Knows Desire Dies Jesus Path Meditation Crosses Gods Will Acknowledge Righteousness God Knows God Is With You

Author:Brennan Manning

“Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world, about which I felt a lot of confusion and shame, and let me understand it more completely. Perhaps the best way to phrase it is to say that meditation showed me that the other side of anxiety is desire. They exist in relationship to each other, not independently.”

World Way Desire Felt Sides Meditation Anxiety Let Me Shame Response Flesh Best Way Confusion Phrases Anxious

Book:Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

Source: Open to Desire: The Truth About What the Buddha Taught

“Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity. It is a great silence and a great joy to be there, and once you start abiding there, there is no death and no time. All fear, all greed, all anger, disappears: one is just there with no idea, no desire.”

Ideas Joy Desire Born Effort Silence Meditation Elements Anger Greed Disappear No Idea Purity Abiding Great Joy

Author:Rajneesh

“You should have only one intense desire within yourself: Have I become the spirit? Have I achieved my ultimate? Have I risen above the worldly desires?”

Love Should Wisdom Spirit Desire Meditation Yoga Should Have Ultimate Intense Wellness Worldly Risen Worldly Desires

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your freedom, you have to have the desire to achieve this state, it cannot be forced upon you!”

Love States Wisdom Spirit Desire Meditation Achieve Evolution Yoga Wellness Your Freedom Desire To Achieve

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it pure. If the attention is not pure, then this desire will be always attacked by all petty, nonsensical things which have no meaning in your ascent.”

Ifs Knows Love Wisdom Spirit Desire Attention Meditation Pure Yoga Method Wellness Petty Ascent Nonsensical Sahaja Yoga

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“There's only one pure desire and that is to be one with the Divine.”

Love Wisdom Spirit Desire Meditation Divine Pure Yoga Wellness

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.”

Stills Desire Pleasure Meditation Buddhist Attachment Worldly Worldly Desires Worldly Pleasures

Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna

“Learn to live without self concern. For this you must know your own true being as indomitable, fearless and ever victorious. Once you know with absolute certainty that nothing can trouble you but your own imagination, you come to disregard your desires and fears, concepts and ideas, and live by truth alone.”

Knows Ideas Self Desire Imagination Meditation Trouble Concepts Concern Absolutes Certainty Fearless Live By Disregard Indomitable Absolute Certainty

Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

“Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this is not a belief that you can get from me or from Buddha or from Jesus. This is not knowledge; you will have to see it. You can see it right now!”

Desire Jesus Belief Understanding Goal Meditation Seeing Right Now Insight

Author:Rajneesh