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“The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things that cause suffering and transient pleasure to something that is perpetual ecstasy. His directions are that exact.”

Giving Past Suffering Causes Pleasure Meditation Ecstasy Hinduism Perpetual Krishna Transient Arjuna

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my interpretation, achieving liberation in yoga means learning how to be present with everything that arises, whether it is pain or pleasure, sadness or joy, failure or success. And to be present with whatever arises, I believe we must not only be aware of what is arising but we must also be able to see all things that arise as equal, with detachment.”

Source: Moving Toward Balance: 8 Weeks of Yoga with Rodney Yee

“Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in which there is no concept or formula, and therefore total freedom. It is only to such a mind that this bliss comes unsought and uninvited. Once it is there, though you may live in the world with all its noise, pleasure and brutality, they will not touch that mind.”

World Mind May States Happiness Freedom Pleasure Meditation Concepts Contrary Pursuit Noise Bliss Formulas State Of Mind Brutality Searching For Happiness Uninvited

Book:Freedom, Love, and Action

Source: Freedom, Love, and Action

“Today, luxury resides in everything that is becoming rare: communion with nature, silence, meditation, slowness rediscovered, the pleasure of living out of step with others, studious idleness, the enjoyment of the major works of the mind–these are all privileges that cannot be bought because they are literally priceless.”

Mind Today Nature Pleasure Silence Steps Meditation Becoming Majors Privilege Luxury Enjoyment Communion Idleness Priceless Slowness Studious Communion With Nature

Author:Pascal Bruckner

“Masturbation is a meditation on self-love. So many of us are afflicted with self-loathing, bad body images, shame about our body functions, and confusion about sex and pleasure, I recommend an intense love affair with yourself”

Self Body Sex Pleasure Meditation Self Love Function Shame Affair Intense Confusion Body Image Love Affair Loathing Masturbation Self Loathing Intense Love

Author:Betty Dodson

“If we confine ourselves to a general and distant reflection on the ills of human life, that can have no effect to prepare us for them. If by close and intense meditation we render them present and intimate to us, that is the true secret for poisoning all our pleasures, and rendering us perpetually miserable.”

Ifs Life Humans Death Evil Pleasure Secret Meditation Effects Reflection Intense Miserable Human Life Intimate Life Death Poisoning Rendering Miserable Life

Book:Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of David Hume (Illustrated)

“Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.”

“I'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.”

Sometimes Values Pleasure Silence Meditation Middle Tvs Starting Guilty Hanging Out Sanity Family And Friends Grounded Absolutely Nothing Hectic Guilty Pleasure Hanging Out With Friends

Author:Naturi Naughton

“You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn and dance on the fragments in hobnailed boots, but you are mistaken. It would be a genuine pleasure. By an odd coincidence I brought a pair of hobnailed boots with me!' So saying, and recognising a good exit line when he saw one, he strode out, and after an interval of tense meditation I followed him. (Spode to Wooster)”

Thinking Would Be House Lines Pleasure Saws Meditation Fronts Genuine Odd Pairs Guests Boots Coincidence Mistaken Fragments Aunt Tense Exit Lawns Intervals

Book:Jeeves And The Tie That Binds

Source: Jeeves And The Tie That Binds

“The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again. For this time at least, I’ve let myself be rooted in the unshakable sanity of the senses, spared my mind the burden of too much thinking, turned myself outward to experience the world and inward to savor the pleasures it has given me.”

Ifs Thinking World Mind Long Has Beens Feelings Eye Left Given Pleasure Too Much Meditation Week Mountain Burden Absence Senses Sanity Rooted Inward Unshakable

Author:Richard Nelson

“Innocence is the way you really give fun to others, create the fun part of it. The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this world without any fun, what would happen? But people are very much confused between fun and the pleasure. The pleasure is nice to begin with and horrible to end with. But fun is a treasure. Anything that is full of fun you remember all your life.”

People World Way Love Giving Ends Wisdom Happens Remember Spirit Fun Pleasure Nice Meditation Imagine This World Yoga Treasure Horrible Innocence Confused Wellness

Author:Nirmala Srivastava

“There is pleasure when a sore is scratched, But to be without sores is more pleasurable still. Just so, there are pleasures in worldly desires, But to be without desires is more pleasurable still.”

Stills Desire Pleasure Meditation Buddhist Attachment Worldly Worldly Desires Worldly Pleasures

Author:Akkineni Nagarjuna

“Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.”

Mind Character Found Pleasure Quality Virtue Meditation Share Higher Useless Goods Moderates

Book:The Essential Aristotle

Source: The Essential Aristotle