Aristotle Quotes, Character Quotes, Meditation Quotes

Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds and in their character, and have only a moderate share of external goods, than among those who possess external goods to a useless extent but are deficient in higher qualities.

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...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation.

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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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Whenever you aren’t manipulating your experience, you’re meditating. As soon as you meditate because you think you should, you’re controlling your experience again, and you’ve squeezed all the value out of your meditation.

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There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

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You want a love which is born out of meditation, not born out of the mind.

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Meditation is the means of unification of the subject and object. Meditate.

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Meditation is a skilful letting go: gently but with resolution.

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Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

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The masters only point the way. But if you meditate And follow the dharma You will free yourself from desire. 'Everything arises and passes away.' When you see this, you are above sorrow. This is the shining way.

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The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine, to observe, to learn. And so there is no following, no accepting, no obedience.

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If you were only to listen, it becomes meditation. Without meditation you cannot hear. What is the meaning of meditation? Meditation exists only where mind is not; where the internal dialogue is gone.

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If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning.

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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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Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the mind think thoughts I do not want it to think? I am as it were a slave to the mind.

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One should strive to understand what underlies sufferings and diseases - and aim for health and well-being while gaining in the Path.

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In maiden meditation, fancy free.

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Proper effort is not the effort to make something particular happen. It is the effort to be aware and awake each moment, the effort to overcome laziness and merit, the effort to make each activity of our day meditation.

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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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A great gift - a gift of Dharma conquers all gifts.

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