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“Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.”

Mind Natural Clear Meditation Imagine Sky Empty Calm Clouds Surface Disappear Lakes Stillness Imagine That Ripple

Author:Kathleen McDonald

“When you read a book, you generate beta waves irrespective of the book's content. But if you look up from it, and start watching TV - it doesn't matter what the content of the program is - the beta waves disappear and you start processing alpha and theta waves. These are the same waves that you generate during meditation. Reading is primarily left hemisphere and watching television is primarily right hemisphere. Now how could that not have a major effect on our culture?”

Ifs Looks Book Matter Culture Reading Left Meditation Effects Television Tvs Majors Program Wave Disappear Look Up Processing Hemisphere Alphas Watching Tv Watching Television Beta Theta

Author:Leonard Shlain

“Meditation isn't to disappear into the light. Meditation is to see all of what we are.”

Light Meditation Disappear

Book:A Gradual Awakening

Source: A Gradual Awakening

“True art means if it helps you to become silent, still, joyous; if it gives you a celebration, if it makes you dance—whether anybody participates with you or not is irrelevant. If it becomes a bridge between you and God, that is true art. If it becomes a meditation, that is true art. If you become absorbed in it, so utterly absorbed that the ego disappears, that is true art.”

Ifs Giving Mean Art Stills God Helping Meditation Ego Dance Silent Disappear Bridges Celebration Irrelevant Joyous

Author:Rajneesh

“In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.”

Self Reality Views Meditation Disappear Awakening Intense Limitation Interfaces Personal Views

Author:James R. Swartz

“It takes a little time to create a gap between the witness and the mind. Once the gap is there, you are in for a great surprise, that you are not the mind, that you are the witness, a watcher. And this process of watching is the very alchemy of real religion. Because as you become more and more deeply rooted in witnessing, thoughts start disappearing. You are, but the mind is utterly empty.”

Mind Littles Real Process Meditation Empty Surprise Disappear Witness Gaps Rooted Alchemy Little Time Watchers Meditation Mind

Author:Rajneesh

“You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If Tetris has taught me anything, it's that errors pile up & accomplishments disappear. Everybody has a plan until they get punched in the mouth.”

Ifs Should Hours Meditation Plans Minutes Taught Mouths Errors Busy Disappear Accomplishment Too Busy Tetris

Author:Mike Tyson

“Meditation gives you two things: equanimity and creativity. And it does that by taking one from their conscious mind, where there's all that noise and chaos and so on, into the subconscious mind where there's quiet and where creativity emanates from. You have a mantra, and when you repeat it over and over again, all those thoughts go away because you shift them to that mantra. And then eventually that sound disappears, and then you're left not conscious or unconscious - you're left in this subconscious state, and by opening that up, first of all you get control of it.”

Giving Mind Creativity Meditation Quiet Conscious Chaos Disappear Unconscious Going Away Subconscious Equanimity Subconscious Mind

Author:Ray Dalio

“Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.”

People Ifs Thinking Important Ideas States Strong Memories Meditation Plans Blame Disappear Concentration Mistaken Tranquility Blankness

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of how many people have had siblings or friends or children or lovers disappear from their lives before precious words of clemency or absolution could be passed along. How do the survivors of terminated relationships ever endure the pain of unfinished business? From that place of meditation, I found the answer-you can finish the business yourself, from within yourself. It's not only possible, it's essential.”

Source: The Complete Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love; Committed; The Last American Man; Stern Men & Pilgrims

“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

“The ultimate meditation is: surrender to reality. The more you fight, the more you are in conflict with it, the more you will be a loser. In deep surrender, the ego disappears. And when the ego is not there, for the first time you become aware of that which has always been there.”

Firsts Reality Spiritual Fighting Meditation Awareness Conflict Ego Losing First Time Ultimate Disappear Surrender Deep Loser Mystic

Author:Rajneesh