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Chant your mantra while engaged in work. This way, the mind will be continuously focused on Him. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
His Labor is a Chant - His Idleness -a Tune - Oh, for a Bee's experience Of Clovers, and of Noon! -- Emily Dickinson
Fairies, arouse! Mix with your song Harplet and pipe, Thrilling and clear, Swarm on the boughs! Chant in a throng! Morning is ripe, Waiting to hear. -- William Allingham
Ah! the year is slowly dying, And the wind in tree-top sighing, Chant his requiem. Thick and fast the leaves are falling, High in air wild birds are calling, Nature's solemn hymn. -- Mary Weston Fordham
Sring is the mantra of beauty. Traditionally it is connected with Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of beauty. Chant "Sring" slowly, elongating each sound. As you do, you will see the consciousness of beauty of everywhere. -- Frederick Lenz
A western audience might not appreciate 'Chanakya's Chant' because of its dependence on history and ancient statecraft. My book is a modern-day thriller that draws on a bedrock of history. My primary object is to entertain, not educate. -- Ashwin Sanghi
As a drumset player I look outside the typical canon of drums - jazz and rock. When I hear something like the "Monkey Chant", even though there are no instruments on it at all, the rhythms are so intriguing. -- Glenn Kotche
Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity. -- Sharon Salzberg
Aum is the most powerful of all mantras. It is good to chant Aum seven or more times before and after each meditation. Chanting "Aum" puts you in harmony with the vibration of Eternity. "Aum" opens the gateway to the infinite highway of light. -- Frederick Lenz
Winning an award is a great feeling but winning the Vodafone Crossword Popular Choice Award is particularly exhilarating because it is based upon public voting. I find it a strange quirk of fate that Chanakya's Chant, a political tale, should end up winning an election! -- Ashwin Sanghi
Participation is easily obtained with Latin chant. -- Richard Morris
Record stores have whole sections devoted to the chant. -- Richard Morris
There's nothing better than making music and hearing 3,000 people chant, 'Afrojack! Afrojack!' -- Afrojack
I used a lot of pancake makeup and a prayer, and a Buddhist chant. -- Steven Cojocaru
My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant. -- Kristin Hersh
Yes we can' always struck many as a naive and childish chant, like something ripped off from the Camp Fire Girls. -- Craig Shirley
There is no real way to categorize McLean's 'American Pie' for its hybrid of modern poetry and folk ballad, beer-hall chant and high-art rock. -- Douglas Brinkley
Whether you wish to chant 'Our houses, our selves' or 'We have houses, hear us roar,' for us women, home is where the heart is. -- Sandra Tsing Loh
I have watched Muslims chant 'Death to America!' on the streets of Tehran, then privately beg me to help them get a visa to the United States. -- Reza Aslan
The Dalai Lama was once asked for his favorite chant, and he said it was better not to have a favorite anything, which I think is a great thought. -- Jeremy Piven
The pastor of a parish will typically have no education in the chant or in music, and he will hire the first music director who walks through the door. -- Richard Morris
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it. -- John Astin
I never close a door on any other religion. Most of the time, some part of it makes sense to me. I don't believe everyone has to chant just because I chant. I believe all religion is about touching something inside of yourself. -- Tina Turner
Sometimes I feel like a Buddhist and I need to chant; sometimes a Baptist and I need to holler and shout; and sometimes I need to be a Catholic and need to purge my sins and confess. It just depends on where I am. -- Jill Scott
You should breathe deeply and chant, 'Money will easily and effortlessly flow into my life' as often as you can every day. Things will start to change after a month. If you believe you will be financially secure, then you are opening yourself up to change. -- Louise L. Hay
Hip-hop is when you have crowd participation; when you chant at the audience and they chant back at you; when you wave your hands in the air like you just don't care; or some breakdancing. Everything today is just low-beat, real bass-y, bass-y, good rap records. -- Flavor Flav
I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous. -- Patrick Duffy
After I came out of surgery - I was in the hospital for five weeks - I found that I gravitated toward very gentle sounds: chant music, solo bamboo flute sounds, a laid-back record of my own called 'Inside.' And the music became a very real part of my recovery process. -- Paul Horn
The very first role I ever played was as a 17-year old South African girl who dreamed of being a star and left home to meet her mother in the big city so that she could pursue that dream. I left South Africa and met my mother in Vancouver and not long after that was given the opportunity to perform on the stage and have people chant my name. -- Kandyse McClure
Let's just chant and be good people, alright? -- Krishna Das
I chant to save my miserable ass. That's what I do. -- Krishna Das
If you are unable to meditate, chant your mantra or sing bhajans. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
This must be Monday Night RAW, we just got a Wendy's chant. -- John Cena
I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices. -- Taryn Manning
I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing. -- Krishna Das
Let the high Muse chant loves Olympian:We are but mortals, and must sing of men." -- Theocritus
I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: Oh My God Oh My God. -- Suzanne Finnamore
I have a new mantra, which I chant softly to myself: "Oh My God Oh My God. -- Suzanne Finnamore
Don't waste yourself in rejection, nor bark against the bad, but chant the beauty of the good. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
The word enchant comes from the Latin 'incantare', meaning to sing or chant magical words or sounds. -- Jonathan Goldman
Eva. Every day I've climbed up the belfry chanting a lucky chant at one syllable per beat, "To-day-to-day-let-her-be-here-to-day-to-day. -- David Mitchell
Three things to never leave home without: your keys, birdseed for the birds, and your mala beads to chant through difficulties. -- Sharon Gannon
If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!' -- Leigh Hunt
The best argument for Christianity is the Gregorian chant. Listening to that music, one can believe anything -- while the music lasts. -- Edward Abbey
Male religion entombs women in sepulchres of silence in order to chant its own eternal and dreary dirge to a past that never was. -- Mary Daly
Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise! -- Lord Byron
Repetition of the same chant, the same incantations, the same affirmations leads to belief, and once that belief becomes a deep conviction, things begin to happen. -- Claude M. Bristol
War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment; We, we alone, Nereids inviolate, Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant: Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate. -- Hilda Doolittle
An authentic updating of sacred music can take place only in the lineage of the great tradition of the past, of Gregorian chant and sacred polyphony. -- Pope Benedict XVI
Conundrum: A fun word to repeat over and over again when no one's listening; actual meaning is as puzzling as the need to chant the word. -- Richelle E. Goodrich
So it's really a process of actually having a realization of God, which all becomes clear with the expanded state of consciousness that develops when you chant. -- George Harrison
The void is ready to snatch you up like a Pac Man machine and Laskshmi is on vacation. You chant Sring - and you get her answering machine. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Towards the end of your meditation session, or when you feel your meditation is deep, chant "Kring" seven times. Repeat it with sharp intensity, without elongating the syllables. -- Frederick Lenz
When you chant "Aum" or any mantra, do so softly and gently. Extend the sound. Focus your awareness on the sound of the mantra and become absorbed in it. -- Frederick Lenz
Lakshmi is a celestial being who lives in a higher plane of existence. Her mantra is "Sring." When you chant it, it brings beauty and light into your consciousness. -- Frederick Lenz
When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should be chanted slowly, clearly and with devotion. -- Mata Amritanandamayi
In a heartbeat, a thousand voices took up the chant. King Joffrey and King Robb and King Stannis were forgotten, and King Bread ruled alone. "Bread." they clamored. "Bread, Bread! -- George R. R. Martin
Religion, even the most primitive and superstitious, is inevitably a beginning of culture. It is not possible without some kind of symbolic expression ... and begets dramatic gesture, dance, and chant ... -- Susanne Katherina Langer
We meditate so that our minds can be sharp and alert. We chant mantras so that your souls may be ignited like candles. We walk in the light of this beauty. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
Grace isn't a little prayer you chant before receiving a meal. It's a way to live. The law tells me how crooked I am. Grace comes along and straightens me out. -- Dwight L. Moody
IMITATION CITRUS FLAVORED DIETARY ARTIFICIALLY SWEETENED CARBONATED BEVERAGE. That, I submit, is not a label; it is an incantation. Someday, it should be set to a suitable plainsong tune or Anglican chant. -- Robert Farrar Capon
IMITATION CITRUS FLAVORED DIETARY ARTIFICIALLY SWEETENED CARBONATED BEVERAGE. That, I submit, is not a label; it is an incantation. Someday, it should be set to a suitable plainsong tune or Anglican chant." -- Robert Farrar Capon
Gregorian chant, Romanesque architecture, the Iliad , the invention of geometry were not, for the people through whom they were brought into being and made available to us, occasions for the manifestation of personality. -- Simone Weil
How do you end a meditation session? It's nice to chant a mantra again. Maybe repeat it a few times. It seals the meditation. Do your best and then just give it to eternity. -- Frederick Lenz

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