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The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.

Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.

If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as I explain in the book, I was really suspect of that kind of thing.

For me, first, it's finding quiet in my life - and I do that through yoga and meditation. It's also been a matter of changing the way I eat, because I think what we eat can inform who we are; food is a chemical and a drug to a certain extent.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

The flowering of love is meditation.

We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection.

Sleep is the best meditation.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way.

Without meditation, I'd probably be dead.

My workout is my meditation.

Yoga is a great thing and meditation is also great to get connected to yourself more.

The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.