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“Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.”

Mind Natural Clear Meditation Imagine Sky Empty Calm Clouds Surface Disappear Lakes Stillness Imagine That Ripple

Author:Kathleen McDonald

“The very aim of meditation is firstly subjugation of the mind, so that it can no longer be an obstacle to a clear vision of the Supreme cliché. Secondly, it is the full silencing of that mind, so that consciousness becomes similar to the mirror-like surface of a quiet lake or pool. I can see the real Reflection of Truth in it then, but not otherwise.”

Mind I Can Real Consciousness Vision Clear Meditation Quiet Reflection Mirrors Aim Obstacles Surface Supreme Lakes Pool Subjugation Clear Vision Silencing

Book:Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study

Source: Meditation: An Outline for Practical Study

“I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on the surface, not so deep. Beneath it was hollow. Up until that time, I had been thinking meditation was a joke, a fad and a waste of time.”

Thinking World Should Persons Has Beens Felt Meditation Waste Jokes Should Have Surface Wasting Time Hollow Should Have Been Fads

Author:David Lynch

“The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound (pitch and intensity) depends on the manner in which you hold and apply the bow. The same goes for the gesture of applying paint to a surface.”

Sound Meditation Painting Depends Paint Surface Scales Compare Intensity Gestures Bows Physicality

Author:Stephen Beal

“I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface.”

Years I Can Spiritual Practice Study Meditation Emotional Surface Therapy Vulnerability Components Analytics Meditation Practice

Author:Moby

“Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.”

Thinking Lying Meditation Shapes Conscious Argument Surface Regions Discourse

Book:Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott

Source: Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott