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“Work for god, love god alone, and be wise with god. When an ordinary man puts the necessary rime and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.”

Men God Prayer Wise Meditation Divine Ordinary Enthusiasm God Love Being Wise Ordinary Man Meditation And Prayer

Author:Paramahansa Yogananda

“Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting into the real nature of one's own mind or soul is the fundamental object of Zen Buddhism. Zen, therefore, is more than meditation and Dhyana in its ordinary sense. The discipline of Zen consists in opening the mental eye in order to look into the very reason of existence.”

Mind Looks Real Soul Reason Eye Purpose Order Nature Existence Meditation Objects Masters Buddhism Discipline Ordinary Fundamentals Insight Opening Zen Buddhism Dhyana

Book:An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

Source: An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

“In our prayer and meditation we hope for fulfilling ordinary life.”

Life Prayer Meditation Inspirational Life Ordinary Fulfilling Our Prayers Ordinary Life

Book:Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

Source: Care of the soul: a guide for cultivating depth and sacredness in everyday life

“Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.”

World Way Giving Self Whole Form Opportunity Levels Meditation Ordinary Connections Deeper Fishing Communion Good Way Funny Fishing

Author:Ted Hughes

“It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.”

Thinking Powerful Behinds Practice Environment Meditation Identity Ordinary Supportive Conductor Meditation Practice

Author:Sharon Salzberg

“It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.”

Mind Ideas Universe Speak Interest Cases Meditation Objects Reader Ordinary Understood Nervous Contemplation Buried Intensity Adequate

Book:Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

Source: Tales by Edgar Allan Poe

“All the science of God is going to be exposed before you, completely. You are going to know the complete science of Divine Laws. They are very different from the ordinary laws we know. But first enter into the Kingdom of God. That's why I say first get your Self-Realization.”

Knows Love Firsts Different Self Wisdom Law Spirit Meditation Divine Ordinary Yoga Kingdoms Self Realization Realization Wellness Exposed Kingdom Of God Divine Law

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.”

Purpose Pay Attention Practice Meditation Events Bears Mindfulness Ordinary Enlightenment Extraordinary Pay Attention Ordinary Life Meditation Practice

Author:Peter Matthiessen