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“If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.”

Ifs Way Mind Body Consciousness Meditation Aspect Breaths Deeper Calming

Book:The Essence of Spiritual Life: A Companion Guide for the Seeker

Source: The Essence of Spiritual Life: A Companion Guide for the Seeker

“Millions of people miss meditation because meditation has taken on a wrong connotation. It looks very serious, looks gloomy, has something of the church in it, looks as if it is only for people who are dead, or almost dead, who are gloomy, serious, have long faces, who have lost festivity, fun, playfulness, celebration.... A really meditative person is playful: life is fun for him.... He enjoys it tremendously. He is not serious. He is relaxed.”

“Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.”

Ifs Knows Realizing Silence Meditation Soil Silence Is Truthfulness Meditating

Author:Yogaswami

“If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.”

“If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation”

Ifs World Years Inspiration Practice Meditation Violence Generations Taught Clever Meditation Practice Mother And Son

Author:Dalai Lama

“If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.”

Ifs Knows World Art Meditation Divine Contemplation Concentration Inner World Outer Worlds Meditation Mind Sri Lanka

Book:Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life

Source: Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life

“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

“If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.”

Ifs Inspiration Lying Walks Practice Meditation Breathe Meditation Practice

Author:Ajahn Amaro

“The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thirsty.”

Ifs Water Practice Meditation Drinking Drinking Water

Author:Shunryu Suzuki

“As long as you are breathing, there is more right with you than there is wrong, no matter how ill or how hopeless you may feel. But if you hope to mobilize your inner capacities for growth and for healing and to take charge in your life on a new level, a certain kind of effort and energy on your part will be required.... It will take conscious effort on your part to move in a direction of healing and inner peace. This means learning to work with the very stress and pain that is causing you to suffer.”

Ifs Feels Kind May Mean Long Matter Pain Moving Certain Suffering Energy Growth Levels Effort Healing Meditation Conscious Capacity Stress Ill Inner Peace Breathing Hopeless

Author:Jon Kabat-Zinn