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“For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us to sit down and focus our attention.”

Years Art Enough Attention Practice Focus Meditation Buddhism Down And Get Better Each Day

Author:Frederick Lenz

“If you meditate your mind will become razor sharp. Your memory and retention will be superb. New talents and abilities will begin to unfold. You will become younger each day, yet wiser.”

Ifs Mind Memories Ability Meditation Talent Buddhism Each Day Wiser Our Memories Razors Superb Retention Talents And Abilities New Talent

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Meditation will give you the power to overcome fear. As you sit and meditate each day, it makes you stronger. The energy of the universe flows through your mind, your body, and your life.”

Giving Mind Body Universe Energy Meditation Buddhism Flow Overcoming Stronger Your Body Each Day Overcoming Fear Makes You Stronger Energy Of The Universe

Author:Frederick Lenz

“With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing very, very, very hard each day when we meditate to stop our thoughts.”

Hard Moving Form Meditation Buddhism Perception Gains Each Day Our Thoughts Power Of One

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power of the intellect.”

Should Firsts Meditation Minutes Yoga Intellect Each Day Concentration

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Since the real purpose of meditation is to increase our capacity to help others, taking time each day to meditate is not selfish. We have to manage our time and energy in such a way that we can be of maximum benefit to others, and to do this we need time alone to recover our strength, collect our thoughts, and see things in perspective”

Source: Eight Steps to Happiness: The Buddhist Way of Loving Kindness

“Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.”

Way Giving Looks Helping Shows Chance Accepting Meditation Willing Circumstances Blessing Fairs Tools Thanks Each Day Count Your Blessings

Book:Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy

Source: Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy

“We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man, the power to put this country into a war which is now being prepared and brought closer each day with all the pre-meditation of a long planned murder. For when you give power to an executive you do not know who will be filling that position when the time of crisis comes.”

Knows Men Giving Should Long War Country Matter America Given Meditation Position He Man Murder Crisis Prepared Noble Excellent Each Day Executives Filling Times Of Crisis

Book:Hemingway on War

Source: Hemingway on War

“If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.”

Ifs World Way Body Certain Results Brain Quality Compassion Meditation Amount Method Impact Train Perceive Each Day New Ways Our Thoughts Neuroscience Evaluate Cultivating Verify

Author:Matthieu Ricard

“I begin and end each day with prayer, meditation, and thoughts about what I am grateful for.”

Ends Prayer Meditation Grateful Each Day I Am Grateful

Author:Nathan East

“At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.”

Wells Hours Practice Five Meditation Minutes Twenties Each Day Five Minutes Showing Up Centering

Author:Dani Shapiro

“Begin each day by telling yourself: Today I shall be meeting with interference, ingratitude, insolence, disloyalty, ill-will, and selfishness – all of them due to the offenders’ ignorance of what is good or evil.”

Today Evil Meditation Ignorance Meetings Ill Dues Selfishness Each Day Interference Ingratitude Offenders Disloyalty Insolence Ill Will

Author:Marcus Aurelius

“A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Shedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite.”

Important Practice Meditation Activity Approach Infinite Each Day Appointments Meditation Practice

Author:Roy Davis