“If you pursue meditation with a non-competitive attitude, with a hopeful and helpful attitude, without violence, then you will find that you will become a very benign and powerful being, one who is at peace with himself and the universe.” IfsUniversePowerfulAttitudeMeditationViolenceBuddhismPursueHopefulHelpfulBenign Author:Frederick Lenz
“In meditation we get a sense of the countless selves within ourselves, the different forms they take. Those that don't seem positive or helpful we push aside. Those that seem progressive we enjoy.” DifferentSelfSeemsFormEnjoyMeditationBuddhismHelpfulProgressive Author:Frederick Lenz
“I engaged - started engaging in yoga as a physical practice, but very quickly found out there was something broader to it, and that it was actually helpful for my pain, and started to get into meditation, started to study the Upanishads and the Bhagavad Gita and a lot of the scriptures associated with yoga, the Yoga Sutras, and very quickly came to this conclusion that this had a huge impact on my ability to lead, but, more importantly, the ability to control my sympathetic nervous system, which had a direct tie to the pain in my arm.” PainFoundAbilityPracticeStudyMeditationHugeArmsYogaDirectImpactScriptureConclusionNervousTiesEngagedHelpfulEngagingSympatheticNervous SystemGitaYoga Sutra Author:Mark T Bertolini
“The study of law, medicine and the arts, in each of these instances, the developed mindset is very helpful to one who is practicing meditation.” ArtSuccessLawCareersStudyMeditationBuddhismMedicineMindsetInstanceHelpful Author:Frederick Lenz
“I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.” ThinkingKindArtistProcessMeditationHelpful Author:Amanda Palmer
“The highest type of meditation is done in silence. In silence there are no mantras. Mantras are not essential, but they can be very helpful.” DoneSilenceMeditationBuddhismTypeEssentialsHighestHelpfulMantras Author:Frederick Lenz
“We've got at least two other streams of that are filled with good, helpful material on meditation - the Catholic stream and the Quaker stream that are not primarily based on meditating on the Scripture.” TwoMeditationMaterialsCatholicFilledScriptureStreamsHelpfulMeditatingQuaker Author:Timothy Keller
“Meditation has been really helpful for me and music and great books. Deep down, it's just that I feel a connection to music and books when I can find that other people have gone through similar things.” PeopleFeelsHas BeensI CanBookGoneMeditationConnectionsHelpfulDeep DownGreat Book Author:Mason Jennings
“I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life.” MeditationChangedBreathingHelpfulMeditatingChanged My LifePranayama Author:John Feldmann