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Meditation Quote 67: “In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious. More conscious than ever.” – Osho
Looking at an ancient hindu yogi, with a long beard, sitting in a lotus position with feet tucked together and eyes closed – you might begin to wonder if he is still in the conscious world, or if he has drifted off to somewhere else. If you ask the ancient yogi if he is conscious, he might…
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An Invitation To Slow Down
In order to make room in our busy lives for a daily practice of sitting quietly, we must commit to slowing down. This can be hard to do at first. Throughout our lives we’ve been rewarded for doing things more efficiently, faster is better, right? And thinking about slowing down some can even bring up…
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Meditation Quote 66: “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu
When you are super stressed, do you sometimes feel like you get nothing done. Yet when you are “in the zone” or “in the flow”, and act in a state of calm focus – free from hurry – you get a lot done in a short amount of time. Looking to nature, we see that…
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The Promise Of Meditation
When allowed to inform the rest of our lives, meditation provides a great opportunity. More calm, more clarity, more confidence all result from our daily practice of sitting, breathing and being still. And this stillness is made available to us at all times — there is even a sense that our daily life can become…
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Meditation Quote 65: “…one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator…” – Elizabeth Lesser
Meditation is both about enjoying the journey, and exploring ourselves and the world we live in. In Elizabeth Lesser’s words, “we meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.”. Let us look closer at what she means, by reading her quote in it’s full context: “Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball…
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The Stillness
The mind is a thought machine. Literally thousands of thoughts race through our heads on a daily basis. Plans, agendas, hopes, worries, judgments, “good” thoughts, “bad” thoughts, all come as a neverending stream, interrupted only by – you guessed it! – meditation. Through the practice of meditation, we cultivate a stillness of the mind. With…
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Meditation Quote 64: “The more regularly and the more deeply you meditate, the sooner you will…” – Swami Kriyananda
We often talk about how a daily meditation habit can bring with it some great health benefits, such as less stress, beating anxiety and depression, and curing insomnia. One benefit that can easily be overlooked in all the medical research however, is inner peace. Practicing meditation can bring with it a sense of inner peace and…
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What Can Meditation Show Us About Stress And Anxiety?
Sometimes when we sit down to practice we feel quite anxious, fidgety and even claustrophobic. And we might even consider just not practicing today. But these trying moments offer the greatest gains. Seeing this anxiety and the tension that it produces is huge. Maybe we’re consumed with thoughts about everything we have to do, maybe…
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Meditation Quote 63: “If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.” – Dalai Lama
We LOVE this quote. In fact, it was one of the inspirations behind Daily Meditate, and we feature it on our “About Daily Meditate” page. Hopefully it can inspire you to meditate more, and help further spread the practice of meditation. You might have seen or heard this quote before, as it went viral in 2012. It…
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Meditation Quote 62: “We live in a world that’s way noisier than we were ever meant for a world to be.” – Will of Stone
Have you ever been disturbed by a noise when meditating? I for sure have, and it can be really annoying. So how to avoid it? I long used to think that the secret to getting rid of disturbance while meditating was to find a way to not let it disturb me. Just register the noise, but not let…