“Self-realization is a strange term. You don't actually realize your 'self'. If anything, you go away. The caterpillar enters the cocoon of meditation: A butterfly emerges - metamorphosis.” IfsSelfTermRealizingMeditationStrangeSelf RealizationRealizationGoing AwayHinduismButterflyMetamorphosisCaterpillarsCocoons Author:Frederick Lenz
“Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.” KnowsLeftTermToo MuchMeditationGoes OnDrinkSceneDrugTemplesDo You KnowKnow MeDoing You Author:John Lennon
“Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts of the brain related to attention, emotion, and some autonomic functions.” LongTermEmotionAttentionBrainPracticeStudyMeditationBloodProduceFlowFunctionSignificantLong TermRelatedAndrewCerebralAlterationsBlood Flow Book:Hallucinations Source: Hallucinations
“The understanding of it [absolute] is very important as a beginning point. Then you can use meditation, further reasoning, long-term familiarity etc., you can use all kinds of methods to deepen this understanding and to have it counter the instinctual sense of being an absolute you.” KindLongImportantUseUnderstandingTermMeditationAbsolutesMethodAll KindsLong TermReasoningEtcFamiliarityUsing Me Author:Robert Thurman
“I don't feel like I have a lot to offer in terms of an authoritative voice on a lot of political issue. I don't know how to fix the economy, or how to increase the number of jobs. That is not where I spent my life and thought and meditation. I guess I would like to think that the topics that I am discussing - the Gospel, the forgiveness of sins and the defeat of death - goes up river to all problem.” ThinkingKnowsFeelsProblemJobsPoliticalVoiceTermSinNumbersKnow HowEconomyIssuesMeditationOffersRiversIncreaseDefeatTopicsDiscussingPolitical IssuesForgiveness Of Sins Author:Max Lucado
“..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.” SelfTermTalkingMeditationYogaRationalConcreteSelf KnowledgeTangibleSahaja Yoga Author:Nirmala Srivastava