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The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied, no matter what technique or method we are using. -- Sharon Salzberg
It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice. -- Sharon Salzberg
I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment. -- Kenneth Branagh
There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from moment-to-moment, no matter what's happening. Especially when you are awake, which is pretty much most of the time except for deep sleep. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice. -- Frederick Lenz
You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice. -- Frederick Lenz
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax! -- Sogyal Rinpoche
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So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all. -- Jon Kabat-Zinn
After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be! -- Wes Nisker
Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice. -- Kathryn Budig
Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let things unfold. -- Stephen Vincent Benet
I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not drinking too much. -- Richard Simmons
The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or force into every meditation. -- Frederick Lenz
Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation, when you are passive, sitting still. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes. -- Moby
A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It's not just something nice to do to make the universe happy. -- Moby
There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our body and our sense, of our mind and heart. -- Jack Kornfield
Everyone in advanced meditation practice should be involved with the economic support of the spread of the dharma. We live in a material world, and it's very expensive to teach meditation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
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As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until you are finally awakened to your own deepest self, one with Christ. -- James Finley
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. -- Peter Matthiessen
A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Shedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite. -- Roy Davis
As your meditation practice improves from month to month, more and more light and ecstasy will spill over into the moments of your daily life. Eventually you will always exist in a state of continual light. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in your body. If you do this, any meditation practice you do will be fruitful. -- Gil Fronsdal
I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component, without the softening that comes with love and vulnerability, everything else I do is really just surface. -- Moby
There is a true Buddha in family life; there is a real Tao in everyday activities. If people can be sincere and harmonious, promoting communication with a cheerful demeanor and friendly words, that is much better than formal meditation practice. -- Zicheng Hong
As you go into light for longer and longer periods, as you progress in your meditation practice, you transform, you become illumined, you overcome all limitation, all sorrow, and all pain. You learn not to be bound by desire, and eventually you transcend death itself. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops. -- Jack Kornfield
To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind. -- Ajahn Chah
Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from reading Thich Nhat Hahn books. Those things can be joyful but I think it's the small, simple joys of playing with dogs or having sex with someone you love or going for a walk outside, stuff that we tend to ignore. -- Moby
There's no substitute for the practice of meditation. -- Wayne Dyer
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate. -- Swami Sivananda
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self. -- Wayne Dyer
I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation. -- Donna Karan
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. -- Milarepa
I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground. -- Heather Graham
The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested. -- Sharon Salzberg
There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you. -- Sharon Salzberg
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it. -- James Allen
I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal. -- Goldie Hawn
Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading. -- Marianne Williamson
I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy. -- Miranda Kerr
When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. -- James Redfield
Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of such a practice tells your mind and body that the day's work is over and you are free to relax and sleep. -- Andrew Weil
As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia. -- Daniel Goleman
Meditation is THE fundamental practice of the Quest. -- Paul Brunton
I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity. -- Sarah MacLean
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate. -- Swami Sivananda
The most powerful benefits of meditation come from having a regular, daily practice. -- Deepak Chopra
As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust. -- Sharon Salzberg
How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath. -- Gautama Buddha
When you practice meditation, the meditator becomes all-important and not the movement of meditation. -- Jiddu Krishnamurti
Through the practice of meditation and Buddhism, as you experience light, it immediately delights you. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Meditation is as important as lifting weights and being out here on the field for practice, -- Russell Okung
When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life. -- David Lynch
Mindfulness is both a state of being and a daily spiritual practice, a form of meditation. -- David Richo
The true practice to meditation is to sit as if you where drinking water when you are thursty. -- Shunryu Suzuki
It is as important to monitor your mind constantly as it is to sit down and practice meditation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
By the practice of meditation, you will find that you are carrying within your heart a portable paradise. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion. -- Jack Kornfield
You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice. -- Marianne Williamson
Meditation is not what you do in the morning, that's practice. Meditation is the daily result of that practice. -- Harbhajan Singh Yogi
There's no wrong way to meditate. And meditation should never be a difficult practice that leads to self criticism. -- Moby
Life can be pleasant or miserable. To lead a fruitful life, and to make it positive, practice analytical meditation. -- Dalai Lama
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. -- Pema Chodron
Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart. -- Sakyong Mipham
Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others. -- Sharon Salzberg
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. -- Jack Kornfield
As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to makefriends with the quietness of our sensations. -- Sharon Salzberg
I gave up drinking lots of whiskey and began to practice yoga and meditation. As a result I am not dead. -- Billy Childish
Don't read the sutras - practice meditation. Don't take up the broom - practice meditation. Don't plant tea seeds - practice meditation. -- Ikkyu
Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. -- Joko Beck
Through the practice of meditation and the auric empowerments and guidance of an enlightened master, you can totally change your karmic destiny. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your meditation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The practice of meditation is an ancient practice. It's been practiced in many lands, for many lifetimes. You may have practiced it before. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives. -- Sharon Salzberg
Meditation is the art of life. Meditation is not simply a practice. It is an experience, awareness, and a way of perceiving life. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer. -- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people. -- Frederick Lenz
The emphasis is on meditation in Tantric Zen. The experience of meditation in formal practice, zazen, where you're sitting down and meditating and concentrating. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory. -- Genevieve
The tremendous population increase has made meditation and psychic perception, things that come naturally to spiritually evolved people, difficult to practice and participate in. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The practice of meditation is represented by the three monkeys, who cover their eyes, ears and mouths so as to avoid the phenomenal world. -- Wei Wu Wei
Winning has to do with gaining personal power through the practice of meditation and mindfulness; not draining your energy on ridiculous things and people. -- Frederick Lenz
One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living. -- Elizabeth Lesser
In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually persecuted and ridiculed. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Looking deeply into the wrong perceptions, ideas, and notions that are at the base of our suffering is the most important practice in Buddhist meditation. -- Nhat Hanh
For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation. -- Jess Row
Raja yoga is the mental practice and incorporates meditation, pranayama, and mudra. What are the benefits of having a raja yoga practice? The benefit is spirituality. -- Rajashree Choudhury
I recommend computer science to people who practice meditation. The mental structures that are used in computer science are very similar exercises done in Buddhist monasteries. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Walking is the great adventure, the first meditation, a practice of heartiness and soul primary to humankind. Walking is the exact balance beween spirit and humility. -- Gary Snyder
In Buddhist practice a great deal of time is spent practicing mandala meditation. You learn to visualize and hold simultaneous concepts in the mind during meditation. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together, it will be unbelievable. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist meditation ultimately generates compassion. -- Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from suffering within Great Peace. -- Gautama Buddha
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Continue practice into everyday life with a single meditation, always keeping in mind the intention to help others in all activities, eating, dressing, sleeping, walking, or sitting. -- Jamgon Kongtrul
Meditation is a bright, hopeful practice in which we learn to make our mind quiet so that the infinite, perfect light of enlightenment can flow through us. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passionâ??but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point of view. -- Chogyam Trungpa
When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we will automatically be meditating always. (151) -- Swami Satchidananda
You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house, whether you're in India or Tibet. -- Pico Iyer
The practice of forgiveness is very much like the practice of meditation. You have to do it often and persist at it in order to be any good. -- Katerina Stoykova Klemer
I think everyone is equally psychic. But through the practice of meditation, you learn to make your thoughts quiet and become more aware of your innate psychic abilities. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I think everyone is equally psychic. But through the practice of meditation, you learn to make your thoughts quiet and become more aware of your innate psychic abilities. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And we see that the path takes time. -- Dalai Lama
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with your spirit, not just with your body. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
This is a world of unhappy beings. They don't understand how simple it is to be happy. You just have to practice meditation. To meditate is to be happy. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered. -- Mike Love
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through. -- Chogyam Trungpa
Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves. -- Nhat Hanh

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