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“There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still our thoughts and meditate.”

Ifs Stills Spirit Order Speak Meditation Buddhism Guides Our Thoughts Speak Softly

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

“Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its highest aspect, is perfect and formless.”

Thinking Perfect Consciousness Practice Meditation Awareness Buddhism Highest Aspect Flow Our Thoughts Stopping Interruptions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is magic in this moist world, in how the mind lets go, slips into sleepy water, circles and nuzzles the banks of palmetto and wild iris, how it seeps across dreams, smears them into the upright world, rots the wood of treasure chests, welcomes the body home.”

Source: Stirring the Mud: On Swamps, Bogs, and Human Imagination

“meditation is a way of developing clarity, which allows us to see the precision of daily life situations as well as our thought process so that we can relate with both of them fully and completely.”

Way Wells Process Situation Meditation Rose Clarity Developing Relate Daily Life Our Thoughts Precision Thought Process

Book:Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

Source: Work, Sex, Money: Real Life on the Path of Mindfulness

“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

“We have to be careful not to think that meditation is about getting rid of thoughts. On the contrary, I would say that meditation helps us to creatively engage with our thoughts and not fixate on them.”

Thinking Helping Creativity Meditation Careful Contrary Be Careful Our Thoughts

Author:Martine Batchelor

“Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.”

Mind Care Spirit Prayer Issues Meditation Quiet Daughter Charity Calm Seats Stillness Our Thoughts Recollection Tempest Meekness

Book:The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

Source: The Beauties of J. Taylor: Selected from His Works with an Essay on His Life and Writings

“The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to be. Meditation is a way of breaking this spell.”

Way Moments Happens Lost Meditation Habit Mindfulness Mercy Spending Spells Waking Our Thoughts Lost In Thought

Author:Sam Harris

“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

“Meditation helps us to get out of our thoughts about the future and really be in the present moment.”

Moments Helping Meditation Present Moment Our Thoughts

Author:Tara Brach

“Modern reality has got such a hold on us that... when we attempt to reconstruct the ancient days in our thoughts...the minor events of our lives tear us away from our meditations, and... thrust us back into our personal [problems]”

Problem Reality Our Lives Meditation Modern Events Tears Ancient Minors Our Thoughts Thrust Personal Problems

Author:Vincent Van Gogh