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Meditation Quote 79: “Meditation stops the sound-loving mind.” – Sri Chinmoy
Ready for a little experiment? Just shut your eyes for a second, and pay attention to your thoughts. Still reading? …please don’t read anymore until you have closed your eyes and paid attention to your own thoughts. 30 seconds is more than enough. What do you observe? “What if my colleagues don’t like my new…
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Your Friends Can Save You!
The other week, I got out and spent some time with friends, celebrating a birthday over laughter and amazing food on one occasion, and catching up with Amy, who I hadn’t seen in months. More lovely conversation! I remember thinking that I didn’t have time to hang out for very long. “There’s too much work to…
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Meditation Quote 78: “Leave nothing for tomorrow which can be done today.” – Abraham Lincoln
If you’re anything like me you have a list of things that needs done (either mentally or written), and it keeps stressing you out. It used to be that my to do list ran my life, like a sadistic tyrant. Together with this to do list I had a habit of postponing the most important things on…
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Meditation Quote 77: “The mind is restless and difficult to restrain, but it is subdued by practice.” – From the Bhagavad Gita
Ever been in a wrestling match with your mind? Did you win? We’ve previously both mentioned how your mind has on average 50,000 thoughts per day, and we’ve explored how people prefer electro shock to being alone with their thoughts. With this in mind, coupled with your own experience, I am sure you agree that the…
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Have A Great Day, And Adam Redesign!
I redesigned my bi-daily blog posts here at Daily Meditate, so I wanted to make a post about the new changes! Every other day, I will share a few words on seeing the world a bit more clearly, living with less stress, and simply relaxing more fully into this beautiful life. I’ll also include one of…
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Meditation Quote 2: “I meditate. Meditation helps me.” – Rick Springfield
Life can have it’s up and downs, for sure. Whether we are doing to a tough time, or just need some momentum, stress relief or rest – meditation can be of great help. This quote reminds us of that, and also points out a simple but powerful reason of why to meditate – because it…