I had a great reading with donna and will always come to her when i need to talk about my life. Til then i use these quotes to get me by :\r
""Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.""\r
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Swami Sivananda\r
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""After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked-as I am surprisingly often-why I bother to get up in the mornings.""\r
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Richard Dawkins\r
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""Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.""\r
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Buddha\r
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""Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.""\r
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William Cowper\r
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""Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.""\r
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James Allen\r
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""Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.""\r
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Jeremy Taylor\r
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""I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.""\r
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George Harrison\r
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""My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel""\r
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Edward Abbey\r
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""Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.""\r
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Francis Quarles\r
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""What is this true meditation? It is to make everything: coughing, swallowing, waving the arms, motion, stillness, words, action, the evil and the good, prosperity and shame, gain and loss, right and wrong, into one single koan.""\r
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Hakuin\r
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""I meditate and put on a rubber tire with three bottles of beer. Most of the time I just sit picking my nose and thinking.""\r
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James Gould Cozzens\r
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""We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.""\r
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Alan Watts
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