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“The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at table, and amidst assemblies, turning the eye of the the mind upwards, can form an artificial solitude; retired amidst a crowd, calm amidst distraction, and wise amidst folly.”

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Author:Isaac D'Israeli

“The most important habit is solitude, quiet time. People who enter their day by taking 45 minutes or an hour for themselves - meditation, prayer, inspirational reading, taking a walk - before they go for it in the real world do best.”

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Author:Ken Blanchard

“When you meditate, go into the solitude of a forest, or a quiet corner, and enter into the chamber of your heart. And always keep your power of discrimination awake.”

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Author:Ramakrishna

“Happiness comes from the dissolution of the mind, not from external objects. Through meditation we can achieve everything including bliss, health, strength, intelligence and vitality. But it should be practiced properly in solitude and with care.”

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Book:For My Children: Selected Teachings of Divine Mother Ammachi

Source: For My Children: Selected Teachings of Divine Mother Ammachi

“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 and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company.”

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Book:Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes

Source: Shakspeare's Dramatic Works: With Explanatory Notes

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.”

“The imaginations excited by the view of an unknown and untravelled wilderness are not such as arise in the artificial solitude of parks and gardens... The phantoms which haunt a desert are want, and misery, and danger; the evils of dereliction rush upon the thoughts; man is made unwillingly acquainted with his own weakness, and meditation shows him only how little he can sustain, and how little he can perform.”

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Book:Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

Source: Works: With an Essay on His Life and Genius

“Kerouac's books portray a hero and narrator free and easy, confident, sure of his rebellion against the American system. In reality, Jack was torn between Catholicism, Buddhism, and his own demon-driven pursuit of kicks, between spirit and flesh, between mom's house and the Beat coffeehouse, patriotism and subversion, men and women, society and solitude, carousing and meditation, sacred and profane, secular and divine. It's a miracle he survived as long as he did.”

“Loneliness is the poverty of self; solitude is the richness of self.”

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Book:Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

Source: Mrs. Stevens Hears the Mermaids Singing: A Novel

“Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.”

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Author:George MacDonald

“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.”

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Author:C. S. Lewis

“In solitude, where we are least alone.”

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Book:CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

Source: CHILDE HAROLD'S PILGRIMAGE

“Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.”

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Author:Jiddu Krishnamurti