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Meditation Quote 48: “Meditation is allowing what is.” – Victor Davich
Most meditation techniques involve something to focus the mind on, like your breath, a mantra, or a visualization. And by focusing on something we are better able to remove other distractions and calm our mind. But what about allowing the distractions and reality to be as is? As the now popular movement of mindfulness has proposed in later…
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Meditation Quote 47: “Do you pay regular visits to yourself? Start now.” – Rumi
You visit friends and family, cafés and restaurants, shopping centers and boutiques.. But how often do you pay visits to yourself? I am of course not talking about “setting aside time for yourself” spent laying on the couch watching television, reading your favorite magazine or eating that most wonderful piece of chocolate cake. If you…
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Meditation Quote 46: “We carry inside us the wonders we seek outside us.” – Rumi
“It’s all their fault!” It’s easier to blame your problems on someone else, than to look inwards and realize the problem might be you. In the same way it’s easy to think that the “grass is greener on the other side”, and that our current environment will never be enough to fulfill our dreams. The…
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Meditation Quote 45: “All your problems are just thoughts. And thoughts are not a problem.” – Jeff Foster
Have you ever caught yourself “demonizing” something on your “to do list”? You know… had something that you needed to get done, but put it off for a few days, weeks, or even months… And for some reason you avoided it because it seemed like such a big, difficult or painful task? I sure have,…
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Meditation Quote 44: “Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.” – Sharon Salzberg
How many electronic things do you own? I bet at least one of them you “just gotta” have with you at all time. And just imagine what would happen if you forgot – or even worse – lost it! What if I were to tell you that the most powerful mobile device you own is not…
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Meditation Quote 43: “Every man must take time daily for quiet and meditation. In daily meditation lies the secret of power.” – H. Emilie Cady
We’ve all heard it from someone, or perhaps been guilty of it ourselves. “Meditation isn’t for me. I tried once, and I couldn’t get my mind to shut up!” – sounds familiar? When you exercise you body you don’t see immediate results, but notice great benefits over time. When you learn a new skill like…
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Meditation Quote 42: “Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.” – Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
Ever had a complex relationship, situation, day, or.. perhaps feel sometimes like life is always very complex? Why did that sentence just give you a negative feeling? Maybe we are naturally stressed by complexity, and relaxed by simplicity… No matter what the reason is, the simplicity of meditation is both effective and difficult to deal with. Our…
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Meditation Quote 41: “You are responsible for your own happiness!” – Judith D’souza
No one, and yes – not even your mom, god, superman or santa – can give you happiness. So who can? You can! That’s right. Even though it is not easy, you are the only one who ultimately are responsible for your own happiness. All the everyday choices you make influence your happiness. Responding to a…
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3 Things You Must Do To Stress Less
Wouldn’t it be wonderful to be relaxed, composed and happy all the time? The sad truth is that it’s very easy to get stressed these days, with hectic workdays (or schooldays), lots of pressure (from peers, media, bosses, parents, kids, etc), and all sorts of world conflicts and warring countries. So, how do we deal with this? As…
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Free Tibetan Music For Meditation
Here is a great treasure of music, recommended to us by one of our Daily Meditate readers. It is in the form of a 8 hours (eight whole hours, imagine..) long video which you can listen to as you please. Listening to tibetan singing bowls, bells and gong, can be strange at first. But whats so wonderful…