“I recommend learning how to come into the presence of stillness and vastness. Learn any form of meditation. Spend twenty minutes every day if possible, in meditation, listening to the crazy monkey mind inside you, and learning how to still the thoughts and discover that big, deep soulful part of yourself.” IfsMindStillsBigsFormMeditationCrazyMinutesListeningTwentiesStillnessMonkeysVastnessSoulfulMonkey Mind Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“I know that if I do the right amount of, say, meditation and hot yoga or something, I can move the energy through my body and get rid of my cold within twenty-four hours.” IfsKnowsI CanBodyMovingEnergyHoursFourMeditationColdAmountYogaTwentiesHotHot Yoga Author:Jason Mraz
“Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.” IfsWayLittlesStillsImportantHelpingRealizingSilenceMorningNiceMeditationMinutesTwentiesLittle ThingsWhat's Important Author:Ellen DeGeneres
“Your anger is like a flower. In the beginning you may not understand the nature of your anger, or why it has come up. But if you know how to embrace it with the energy of mindfulness, it will begin to open. You may be sitting, following your breathing, or you may be practicing walking meditation to generate the energy of mindfulness and embrace your anger. After ten or twenty minutes your anger will have to open herself to you, and suddenly, you will see the true nature of your anger. It may have arisen just because of a wrong perception or the lack of skillfulness.” IfsKnowsMayEnergyKnow HowMeditationMinutesFlowerWalkingTenPerceptionMindfulnessSittingAngerTwentiesEmbraceCome UpFollowingBreathingTrue NatureWalking Meditation Author:Nhat Hanh
“In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that. And that's what it's all about, being alone with yourself every day, for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes in the evening.” NeedsYearsLongRealCoursesEasySimpleMorningMeditationMinutesTwentiesInstrumentsEveningHolidayBeardTranscendentalTranscendental MeditationSari Author:Peter Lindbergh
“There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.” SelfMeditationStyleHigherTwentiesInsightGlimpseHigher SelfTapping Author:India.Arie
“At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.” WellsHoursPracticeFiveMeditationMinutesTwentiesEach DayFive MinutesShowing UpCentering Author:Dani Shapiro
“In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.” NeedsYearsLongRealCoursesEasySimpleMeditationTwentiesInstrumentsHolidayBeardTranscendentalTranscendental MeditationSari Author:Peter Lindbergh
“Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.” ThinkingMenLittlesBookSelfReadingMeditationStudentsMastersPrideConstitutionTwentiesNotesSakeAnalysisAffectedMottoGood BookDisabledHasty Author:Charles Spurgeon
“Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use is only for the time being. Once you have learned the quality, then you need not do any particular meditation, then the meditation has to spread all over your life. Only when you are meditative twenty-four hours a day then can you attain, then you have attained. Even sleeping is meditation.” KnowsLifeNeedsKindUseWisdomSpiritualTimeHoursSleepQualityKnowledgeKnowingLearningWiseFourMeditationParticularWise WordsRootsTwentiesMedicineWordsSpreadIndianOver YouDo You KnowDeep ThoughtAttainmentWise Man Once SaidLife Learning Author:Rajneesh
“When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us.” IfsMenFeelsShouldTryingMindIdeasEarthSpiritualMeditationCreationRight NowQuietTwentiesCalmCleverDawnCherishSpiritual LifeWisestWisest Man Author:Sri Chinmoy
“It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the mind, it can be put aside. One can become disidentified with the mind. To know "I am not the mind," is real purity because then you are only consciousness, awareness, a witnessing. To live twenty-four hours a day as a witness is the way of the sannyasin.” KnowsWayNeedsMindMeanRealHoursConsciousnessFourMeditationAwarenessTwentiesWitnessPurityJumping Author:Rajneesh
“And you can put your total energy for the inner eye. The outside eyes are wasting eighty percent of energy - it is the major part. Man has five senses, eighty per cent is taken away by the eyes and only twenty per cent is left for the other four senses. They are very poor people, those four. Eyes are very rich, they have monopolised the whole thing; hence it is good - eighty per cent energy is saved - and that can be immediately used for witnessing, for seeing your inner world. hence in the East we call a person who is blind 'pragyanshakshu' - this word is untranslatable.” PeopleMenWorldPersonsWholeEyeUsedEnergyLeftPoorRichTakenFiveFourMeditationSeeingMajorsPercentTwentiesBlindEastSavedSensesCentsPoor PeopleEightyInner WorldFive Senses Author:Rajneesh
“Meditation has to spread all over your life. Whatsoever you do, do meditatively. Walk meditatively, eat meditatively. If you are making love, make love meditatively. Meditation has to become your life twenty-four hours a day; then only the transformation. Then you go beyond sex, you go beyond body, you go beyond mind. And for the first time you become aware of godliness, of ecstasy, of bliss, of truth, of liberation.” IfsMindFirstsBodySexHoursWalksFourMeditationFirst TimeTwentiesTransformationSpreadLiberationBlissOver YouEcstasyMaking LoveGodliness Author:Rajneesh