Edgar Allan Poe Quotes, Ideas Quotes, Meditation Quotes

It is more than probable that I am not understood; but I fear, indeed, that it is in no manner possible to convey to the mind of the merely general reader, an adequate idea of that nervous intensity of interest with which, in my case, the powers of meditation (not to speak technically) busied and buried themselves, in the contemplation of even the most ordinary objects of the universe.

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To concentrate is not to meditate, even though that is what most of you do, calling it meditation. And if concentration is not meditation, then what is? Surely, meditation is to understand every thought that comes into being, and not to dwell upon one particular thought; it is to invite all thoughts so that you understand the whole process of thinking.

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Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

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Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

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If we want to save the world, we must have a plan. But no plan will work unless we meditate.

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"I do not want to get material life, do not want the sense-life, but something higher." That is renunciation. Then, by the power of meditation, undo the mischief that has been done.

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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation.

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I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

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Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought.

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One should refrain from intoxicating drinks and drugs.

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Meditation, then, is a state of mind in which the 'me' is absent. And therefore that very absence brings order.

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Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and your own soul, and understand what your work [is] here.

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If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever you look. Truth is all there is. It's like when you learned how to read, you can then read anywhere you go.

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What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing--it hides the word.

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In awareness there is no becoming, there is no end to be gained. There is silent observation without choice and condemnation, from which there comes understanding.

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Labor, but slight not meditation; meditate, but slight not labor.

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You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area.

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Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

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When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation.

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