Meditation

Man needs silence, and an opportunity to meditate. One may even need to isolate himself temporarily from outside interference to be able to think through and assimilate his experiences, to attain understanding and insight into them. By watching for the illuminating gleam of intuition, listening for the whisper of the inner self, one can find new answers to his problems, new directions for his life, new ways to fulfil his dreams.

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The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation. - Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

For 15 minutes, simply sit silently and think that the whole world is a dream…. And that there is nothing of any significance in it. - Osho

Through observation and instruction, reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation and the labour of our own thoughts that must form our judgment of things. - Isaac Watts

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. - James Allen

What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. - Sogyal Rinpoche

When we mediate we sow ourselves down into stillness and silence so we can finally hear the whispers deep within our heart. - Davidji

You have to learn meditation to enjoy your emptiness. - Unknown

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Truth

What is true is true. We cannot change the truth, no matter how much we dislike it. Truth never changes. The truth will come out, it always does. Truth only reveals itself when one gives up all preconceived ideas. 

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The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us. - E. H. Chapin

The masses have never thirsted after truth. They turn aside from evidence that is not to their taste, preferring to deify error, if error seduce them. Whoever can supply them with illusions is easily their master; whoever attempts to destroy their illusions is always their victim. - Gustave le Bon

It is only those who are in constant revolt that discover what is true, not the man who conforms, who follows some tradition. It is only when you are constantly inquiring, constantly observing, constantly learning, that you find truth. - Jiddu Krishnamurti

The truth may be puzzling. It may be counter intuitive. It may contradict deeply held prejudices. It may not be consistent with what we desperately want to be true. But our preferences do not determine what’s true. - Carl Sagan

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Cultivation of The Mind

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body. Keep your mind humble, and open to new ideas. You will learn much more in the process, and continue to develop as a human being. - Unknown

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The supreme of all efforts is to subdue one’s mind. Be constantly aware of one’s mind because our mind is very unstable. Our mind is very gross and rough. When we are able to pacify and remove the delusions from our minds, our minds will become very flexible and peaceful. - Unknown

A mind, like a home, is furnished by its owner, so if one’s life is cold and bare he can blame none but himself. - Louis L 'Amour

The world is in a very feverish state. The mind changes from like to dislike with the feverishness of the world. If we can learn to make the mind still, it will be the greatest help to the world. - Unknown

The mind of man is like an unbroken horse that would go anywhere except where you wanted it to. - Unknown

When your mind is narrow, small things agitate you easily. Make your mind an ocean. - Lama Thebtan Yeshe

The treacherous, unexplored areas of the world are not in continents or seas; they are in the minds and hearts of men. - Unknown

This mind of ours, like the earth beneath our feet, teems with exhaustless riches. The conditions of development only are needed. - Christian Nestell Bovee

Your own mind is a sacred enclosure into which nothing harmful can enter except by your permission. - Arnold Bennett

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Compassion

Compassion for others begins with kindness to ourselves. If your compassion does not include yourself, it is incomplete.

Only when we know our own darkness well can we be present with the darkness of others. Compassion becomes real when we recognize our shared humanity. - Pema Chodran

Pain must enter into its glorified life of memory before it can turn into compassion. - George Eliot

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil within us. Compassion is the antitoxin of the soul: where there is compassion even the most poisonous impulses remain relatively harmless. - Eric Hoffer

Love and compassion are the mother and father of a smile. We need to create more smiles in our world today. Smiles, after all, pave the way to a happy world. - Steve Maraboli

What I've come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion. - Chris Abani

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Detachment

Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you.

Detachment is one of the most important factors for the attainment of Enlightenment. The attainment of enlightenment is by way of non-attachment. Most of life's troubles are caused by attachment. We get angry; we worry; we become greedy and complain bitterly. All these causes of unhappiness, tension, stubbornness, and sadness are due to attachment. When we investigate any trouble or worry we have, the main cause is always attachment. Thus a person should maintain an attitude of detachment from worldly pleasures rather than being selfishly attached to them.

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There is no fire like greed, no crime like hatred, no sorrow like separation, no sickness like hunger of the heart, and no joy like the joy of freedom. Health, contentment and trust are your greatest possessions, and freedom your greatest joy. Look within, be still. Free from fear and attachment, know the sweet joy of living in the way. - The Buddha

Those who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world. - The Buddha

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Views On Religions

Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God – imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant – and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave? - Richard Dawkins

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I am fascinated by religion. (That's a completely different thing from believing in it!) It has had such an incalculably huge effect on human affairs. What is it? What does it represent? Why have we invented it? How does it keep going? What will become of it? I love to keep poking and prodding at it. - Douglas Adams

I have never been able to soothe myself with the sugary delusions of religion; for these things stand convicted of the utmost absurdity in light of modern scientific knowledge. - H. P. Lovecraft

I put no stock in religion. By the word religion I have seen the lunacy of fanatics of every denomination be called the will of God. I have seen too much religion in the eyes of too many murderers. Holiness is in right action, and courage on behalf of those who cannot defend themselves, and goodness. - Hospitaller

I say people who feel they must have a faith or religion in order to face life are showing a kind of cowardice, which in any other sphere would be considered contemptible. But when it is in the religious sphere it is thought admirable, and I cannot admire cowardice whatever sphere it is in. - Bertrand Russell

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Prayers

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Nature is impartial; it cannot be flattered by prayers. It does not grant any special favours on request. - Venerable K. Sri Dhammananda Maha Thera

To pray to God is to flatter oneself that with words, one can alter Nature. - Francois Voltaire

If you pray for rain long enough, it does eventually fall. If you pray for flood-waters to abate, they eventually do. The same happens in the absence of prayers. - Steve Allen

What discord should we bring into the universe if our prayers were all answered! - Henry Ward Longfellow

The greatest prayer is patience. - The Buddha

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God

For anyone who is pervaded with the sense of causal law in all that happens, who accepts in real earnest the assumption of causality, the idea of a Being who interferes with the sequence of events in the world is absolutely impossible. Neither the religion of fear nor the social-moral religion can have any hold on him. - Albert Einstein

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If he is infinitely good, what reason should we have to fear him? If he is infinitely wise, why should we have doubts concerning our future? If he knows all, why warn him of our needs and fatigue him with our prayers? If he is everywhere, why erect temples to him? If he is just, why fear that he will punish the creatures that he has filled with weaknesses? If grace does everything for them, what reason would he have for recompensing them? If he is all-powerful, how offend him, how resist him? If he is reasonable, how can he be angry at the blind, to whom he has given the liberty of being unreasonable? If he is immovable, by what right do we pretend to make him change his decrees? If he is inconceivable, why occupy ourselves with him? If he has spoken, why is the universe not convinced? If the knowledge of a God is the most necessary, why is it not the most evident and the clearest? - Percy Bysshe Shelley

For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can’t readily accept the God formula, the big answers don’t remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us. - Charles Bukowski

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Christianity

During almost fifteen centuries has the legal establishment of Christianity been on trial. What has been its fruits? More or less, in all places, pride and indolence in the clergy; ignorance and servility in the laity; in both, superstition, bigotry, and persecution. - James Madison

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You see, we're all born sinful except for Jesus who was perfect, of course. And he was sent to save us. But how could he save us unless we're sinning? So we have to go on sinning in order to be saved and go to Heaven. That's how Christianity works. That's why it suits so many people. - Charlie McManus

Why do Christians take everything so personally with Christ, ya know? It's like not only do you have to worship him, you want everybody to. It's like, I like lobster. Do I go around pushing lobster on people? Do I say "You must like lobster. Eat lobster, it's good, it's good!" It's not only where you live, you go to Africa, you travel all over the world, "Eat lobster! Have some more lobster, it's good." - Larry David

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Atheism

Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated.

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I am not even an atheist so much as I am an antitheist; I not only maintain that all religions are versions of the same untruth, but I hold that the influence of churches, and the effect of religious belief is positively harmful. Reviewing the false claims of religion, I do not wish, as some sentimental materialists affect to wish, that they were true. I do not envy believers their faith. I am relieved to think that the whole story is a sinister fairy tale; life would be miserable if what the faithful affirmed was actually the case. - Christopher Hitchens

It is the absolutism of theism, its pernicious influence upon humanity, its paralyzing effect upon thought and action, which Atheism is fighting with all its power. - Emma Goldman

All thinking men are atheists. - Ernest Hemingway

Properly read, the Bible is the most potent force for atheism ever conceived. - Isaac Asimov

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Silence / Peace

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In the attitude of silence, the soul finds the path in a clearer light, and what is elusive and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous quest after Truth. - Mahatma Gandhi

Just be silent, utterly silent. Let peace descend over you, and the revelation of the mysterious truth of existence is yours. - Osho

In your silence, when there are no words, no language, nobody else is present, you are getting in tune with existence. - Osho

In the Silence is where all the power is. In the Silence is where all the answers are. - Robert Adams

The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind. - Caroline Myss

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you. - Stephen Richards

Not one person in a hundred knows how to be silent and listen, no, nor even to conceive what such a thing means. Yet only then can you detect, beyond the fatuous clamour, the silence of which the universe is made.- Samuel Beckett

For he who has no tranquility there is no concentration. - Bhagavad-Gita Source: Bhagavad-Gita proverb

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The Soul

Soul is the spiritual or immaterial part of a human being or animal, regarded as immortal. Many religious types believe that the soul exists and it outlives physical death. They support the idea of the immortality of the soul. Most scientists contradict the existence of immaterial soul or its survival after death and argue that there is no empirical evidence regarding the soul's existence or survival.

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The soul given to each of us is moved by the same living spirit that moves the Universe. - Albert Einstein

There is no coming to consciousness without pain. People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own Soul. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. - C. G. Jung

Only by much searching and mining are gold and diamonds obtained, and man can find every truth connected with his being if he will dig deep into the mine of his soul. - James Allen

The soul becomes dyed with the colour of its thoughts. - Marcus Aurelius

Every phenomenon on earth is symbolic, and each symbol is an open gate through which the soul, if it is ready, can enter into the inner part of the world, where you and I and day and night are all one. - Hermann Hesse

Your soul always knows what to do to heal your body and your mind. You must listen to your intuition and follow instructions. - Caroline Myss

Every moment and every event of every man’s life on earth plants something in his soul. For just as the wind carries thousands of winged seeds, so each moment brings with it germs of spiritual vitality that come to rest imperceptibly in the minds and wills of men. Most of these unnumbered seeds perish and are lost, because men are not prepared to receive them: for such seeds as these cannot spring up anywhere except in the good soil of freedom, spontaneity and love. - Thomas Merton

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Awareness

Awareness of your inner and outer world, being conscious through the understanding that as above, so below. When you are aware how you are affecting and being affected through each thought and vibration, you understand the power of intentions and awareness. - Unknown

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When you touch one thing with deep awareness, you touch everything. When you touch one moment with deep awareness, you touch all moments. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Awareness is fire; it burns all that is wrong in you. It burns your ego. It burns your greed, it burns your possessiveness, it burns your jealousy – it burns all that is wrong and negative, and it enhances all that is beautiful, graceful, divine. - Osho

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one. - M. Scott Peck

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Spiritual Life

The spiritual presence in your life is ever with you, ever available to you and ever reminding you to look beyond your own judgments. It is forever providing for you the support, the assistance and the guidance necessary to minimize the wrong application of your mind and to strengthen the right application of your mind to allow knowledge to arise within you. – Unknown

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If you can become just your own self, if you can blossom into your intrinsic nature, then only you will have blissfulness, a peace which cannot be expressed in words and a certain poetry to your being: a certain dance to your being, because you will be in tune with existence. To be in tune with yourself is the only way to be in tune with existence. - Osho

If you make Joy your priority and tune into this Joy daily through your meditation, not only will you feel deeply connected, but you will have a huge impact on the people and circumstances in your life and in the lives of people you don’t even know. - Gabrielle Berbstein

Be fearless and pure; never waver in your determination or your dedication to the spiritual life. Give freely. Be self-controlled, sincere, truthful, loving, and full of the desire to serve...Learn to be detached and to take joy in renunciation. Do not get angry or harm any living creature, but be compassionate and gentle; show good will to all. Cultivate vigour, patience, will, purity; avoid malice and pride. Then, you will achieve your destiny. - Krishna

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Mysticism

Mystical experience involves moving beyond normal awareness, through practices that quiet the mind and dissolve identification with the personal ego. 

Mystical pursuits often lead to a radical, positive transformation of the individual, providing deeper meaning to life and the ability to act with greater wisdom and compassion. 

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The task, and joy, of a mystic is to listen for the stirrings of the sacred in the world and the presence of soul. What the mystic seeks to hear is not a message or even a sound. It is something more subtle and less glamorous. The hearing of a mystic is not really auditory at all but more a deeply focused yet widely extended attentiveness. - Unknown

A full-spectrum approach to human consciousness and behaviour means that men and women have available to them a spectrum of knowing – a spectrum that includes, at the very least, the eye of flesh, the eye of mind, and the eye of spirit. - Ken Wilber

I would say that in my scientific and philosophical work, my main concern has been with understanding the nature of reality in general and of consciousness in particular as a coherent whole, which is never static or complete, but which is in an unending process of movement and unfoldment. - David Bohm

To no longer resist the present is to see that there is nothing but the present - no beginning, no end, nothing behind it, nothing in front of it. When the past of memory and the future of anticipation are both seen to be present facts, then the slats to this present collapse. The boundaries around this moment fall into this moment, and then there is nothing but this moment, with nowhere else to go. - Ken Wilber

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Zen

Zen developed in China as Chan Buddhism, blending Indian Mahayana Buddhist philosophies with Chinese Taoist thought. 

Zen uses art, koans, and storytelling to provide direct insight, bypassing philosophical constructs and the limitations of language. 

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We live in a supermarket of ideas, faiths, practices, theories, ideologies, and much else besides. Never in human history have there been so many movements and ideas struggling to attract our attention. Added to this, the Western world is swamped by material goods and the Western mind is dominated by the goal of material success. In all this confusion, Zen stands out as a voice of sanity. It represents a different way of seeing the world, one based upon the rediscovery of who we really are and have always been, through revealing to us our true nature. - David Fontana

The most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of Zen. Even though you read much Zen literature, you must read each sentence with a fresh mind. You should not say, "I know what Zen is," or "I have attained enlightenment." This is also the real secret of the arts: always be a beginner. Be very very careful about this point. Treat every moment as your last. It is not preparation for something else. If you start to practice zazen (meditation), you will begin to appreciate your beginner's mind. It is the secret of Zen practice. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few. - Shunryu Suzuki

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Tao - The Way of Nature

The Tao provides a framework for understanding the world and living a life that is in tune with the natural order, promoting qualities like simplicity, spontaneity, and a sense of interconnectedness.

While the Tao is a central concept in Taoism, it’s not a deity or god in the traditional sense. Taoists often see it as the source of all things, but not a being that is worshipped or prayed to.

In essence, the Tao represents the inherent order, energy, and way of the universe, and living in accordance with it is a key principle in Taoism.

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The ‘You’ who you think you are does not exist. - Alan Watts

The same stream of life that runs through the world runs through my veins night and day in rhythmic measure. It is the same life that shoots in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flowers. - Rabindranath Tagor

Good and evil are typified by light and darkness; therefore, if we bring light into a dark room, the darkness disappears, and inasmuch as a soul is filled with good, evil disappears. - Aurelia Mace

Be aware of the ephemeral nature of material things. Lose your attachment to them. - Shui-ch'ing Tzu

The wise employ their mind as a mirror. Grasp nothing. Refuse nothing. Receive, but do not keep. - Chuang-Tzu

A sage knows by intuitive wisdom, not limited by what he sees and hears only. In the whole universe, there is nothing that is not me. - Zhang Dai

Trust the wait. Embrace the uncertainty. Enjoy the beauty of becoming. When nothing is certain, anything is possible. - Unknown

The whole world is you. Yet, you keep thinking there is something else. - Hsueh Feng

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Chi / Energy

The will is the commander of Chi. Chi is the totality of the body. - Mencius
Explanation:
Our will power can control the flow of energy. When we think of a certain organ or area of our body, energy will flow to that part. Energy is the basic ingredient of our whole body. All our organs, tissues and cells as well as all our physiological functions and metal activities are the products of energy.

As with all things in Nature, there are two polarities to this energy – positive energy and negative energy. When the energies are balanced, and flowing smoothly through our body, we experience general good health and well-being. When they are unbalanced, we will experience variations in our emotions. If the positive energy is stronger, we will feel peaceful, happy, blissful, excited... If the negative energy is stronger, we will feel sad, depress, distress…

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The smooth, balanced flow of chi – your life-force energy – is the single most important determinant to your health, vitality and happiness. - Bruce Frantzis

When the energy is open, smooth and unbound, it will go towards the creative and positive. - Unknown

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The Universe Is Indifferent

The universe is neither good nor evil; rather both moral extremes exist within it. It is not hostile, nor yet is it friendly. It is simply indifferent.

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The universe is like a river. The river keeps on flowing. It doesn't care whether you are happy or sad, good or bad; it just keeps flowing. Some people go down to the river and they cry. Some people go down to the river and they are happy, but the river doesn't care; it just keeps flowing. We can use it and enjoy it, or we can jump in and drown. The river just keeps flowing because it is impersonal, and so it is with the universe. The universe that we live in can support us or destroy us. It's our interpretation and use of the laws that determine our effects or results. - Robert Anthony

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent. - Stanley Kubrick 

The universe is the way it is. It's not going to be changed by supplications. - Buzz Aldrin

The universe has no favourites; it is supremely just, and gives to every man his rightful earnings. - James Allen

Every second the Universe divides into possibilities and most of those possibilities never happen. It is not a uni-verse – there is more than one reading. The story won't stop, can't stop, it goes on telling itself, waiting for an intervention that changes what will happen next. - Jeanette Winterson

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Science

Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.

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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. - Immanuel Kant

The growing knowledge of science does not refute man's intuition of the mystical. Whether outwardly or inwardly, whether in space or in time, the farther we penetrate the unknown, the vaster and more marvellous it becomes. - Charles Lindbergh

Science is a combination of theory and experiment and the two together are how you make progress. - Lisa Randall

Science is a way to keep from fooling ourselves and each other. - Neil deGrasse Tyson

The beauty of science far outweighs the charm of superstition. - Christopher Hitchens

Science is corrosive to religious belief. - Steven Weinberg

Without science, everything is a miracle. - Lawrence M. Krauss

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Meditation

Meditation is practiced in numerous religious traditions. Asian meditative techniques have spread to other cultures where they have found application in non-spiritual contexts, such as business and health. - Wikipedia

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Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace. - James Allen

The art of meditation is the art of listening with your total being. If one can learn how to listen rightly, one has learned the deepest secret of meditation. - Osho

Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. - Unknown

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor. - Thich Nhat Hanh

Sit quietly, doing nothing, springs comes, and the grass grow by itself. - Zen Koan

Empty yourself of everything, let the mind become still. - The book of Tao

Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar. - Sogyal Rinpoche

Breath is the bridge which connects life to consciousness, which unites your body to your thoughts. Whenever your mind becomes scattered, use your breath as the means to take hold of your mind again. - Thich Nhat Hanh

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Truth

Truth is always hidden like a shadow in darkness. It waits for anyone who wishes to find it. Seek the Truth. Truth brings closure.

The truth can both lift up and knock down. The truth had a nasty habit of biting people who refused to confront it. The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.

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The ultimate truth is beyond words. Doctrines are words. They are not the Way. - Bodhidharma

Truth is a demure lady, much too lady-like to knock you on the head and drag you to her cave. She is there, but the people must want her, and seek her out. - Unknown

You can be standing right in front of the truth and not necessarily see it, and people only get it when they’re ready to get it. - George Harrison

A sagacious student does not depend on his teacher’s words, but uses his own experience to find the truth. - Bodhidharma

The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. - Herbert Sebastian Agar

Once a profound truth has been seen, it cannot be ‘unseen’. - David Victor Sim

Truth, like oil, will in time rise to surface. - Charlie Chan

If you do not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it? - Dogen Zenji

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The Mind

The mind is defined as “the element of a person that enables them to be aware of the world and their experiences, to think, and to feel; the faculty of consciousness and thought”.

“It’s all in the mind,” people often say, without realizing how true that is. The mind is the root from which all things grow. Everything begins and ends in the mind. The mind is what makes everything else work.

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Control of the mind is the key to happiness. It is the kind of virtue and the force behind all true achievement. It is owing to lack of control that various conflicts arise in man’s mind. If he is to control them, he must learn not to give free rein to his longings and inclinations and should try to live a self-governed, pure and calm life. - K. Sri Dhammananda

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one’s family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one’s own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him. - Buddha

It is only when the mind is controlled and is kept to the right road of orderly progress that it becomes useful for its possessor and for society. A disorderly mind is a liability both to its owner and to others, all the havoc wrought in the world is wrought by men who have not learned the way of mind control, balance and poise. - K. Sri Dhammananda

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Compassion

What is compassion? Compassion is a mixed passion, composed of love and sorrow. Compassion is not pity... compassion never considers an object as weak or inferior. Compassion is the sense of our own misfortunes in those of another. It is the keen awareness of the interdependence of all things.

The mind of compassion knows no bitterness nor judgement, no good nor bad, no right nor wrong. Only the wish for all beings to be happy. Compassion is the religion of the heart, the basis of morality.

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Compassion is not a quality to be cultivated in isolation, aloof from life. It is easy to be compassionate from a distance, when your heart is undisturbed. When you are surrounded by those who love and care for you, when you have built a world where pain is repressed or ignored, you can easily immerse yourself in thoughts of love and tolerance. Yet that is a fragile world, built on foundations that will always crumble. Compassion speaks of the willingness to engage with tragedy, loss, and pain. Its domain is not only the world of those you love and care for, but equally the people who threaten you, the countless people you don't know, the homeless person you meet on the street, and the situations of anger and hatred you recoil from. It is here that you learn about the depths of tolerance and understanding that are possible for each one of us. It is here that you learn about dignity, meaning, and greatness of heart. - Christina Feldman

Compassion is not just a feeling; it is a response to pain that is deeply rooted in wisdom. It is a commitment to alleviating suffering and the cause of suffering in all its forms. - Christina Feldman

Compassion is the basis of all truthful relationship: it means being present with love – for ourselves and for all life, including animals, fish, birds, and trees. - Ram Dass

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Buddhism

The man who has conquered self-love is, according to the Buddha, the highest being in the universe. The conquest can be best be acquired by practicing generosity, by following the principles of righteousness and justice, by abstaining from unworthy desires and by observing an elementary morality. The minimum required of a good man, a good citizen, is that he should abstain from taking life, from theft, from unchastity, from lying and from intoxicants, covetousness, malevolence, ill-temper, sloth and torpor of body and mind, fretfulness and irritability, doubt and perplexity - these the Buddha declares are hindrances to spiritual progress.

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When you listen to the Dharma you must open up your heart and compose yourself in the centre. Don't try to accumulate what you hear or make a painstaking effort to retain what you hear through memory. Just let the Dharma flow into your heart as it reveals itself, and keep yourself continuously open to its flow in the present moment. What is ready to be retained will be so, and it will happen of its own accord, not through any determined effort on your part.
Similarly, when you expound the Dharma, you must not force yourself. It should happen on its own and should flow spontaneously from the present moment and circumstances. People have different levels of receptive ability, and when you're there at that same level it just happens, the Dharma flows.

If anyone were to speak ill of me, my doctrine or my disciples, do not bear any ill-will towards him, do not be upset or be perturbed at heart, for if you were to be so it will only cause you harm. On the other hand if anyone were to speak well of me, my doctrine and my disciples, do not be overjoyed, thrilled or be elated at heart, for if you should be so it will only be an obstacle in your way of forming a correct judgment as to whether the qualities of praised are indeed real and actually found in us.
In the self-same way, disciple, a certain monk may be very kind, very gentle, very quiet, so long as no unpleasant words are uttered. When, however, people begin to say unpleasant things of the monk – then is the time to see if the monk is kind, or if he is gentle or if he is quiet.

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Religion

Consider the long history of the activities inspired by moral fervour: human sacrifices, persecutions of heretics, witch-hunts, pogroms leading up to wholesale extermination by poison gases... Are these abominations, and the ethical doctrines by which they are prompted, really evidence of an intelligent Creator? And can we really wish that the men who practised them should live for ever? The world in which we live can be understood as a result of muddle and accident; but if it is the outcome of a deliberate purpose, the purpose must have been that of a fiend. For my part, I find accident a less painful and more plausible hypothesis. - Bertrand Russell

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When a man has once brought himself to accept uncritically all the absurdities that religious doctrines put before him and even to overlook the contradictions between them, we need not be greatly surprised at the weakness of his intellect. - Sigmund Freud

While I respect the Judeo-Christian ethic, as well as the eastern philosophies and of course the teachings of Mohammed, I find that organized religion has corrupted those beliefs to justify countless atrocities throughout history. Were I to attend church, I'd be a hypocrite. - Stephen Hyde

How on earth can religious people believe in so much arbitrary, clearly invented balderdash? The acceptance of a creed, any creed, entitles the acceptor to membership in the sort of artificial extended family we call a congregation. It is a way to fight loneliness. Any time I see a person fleeing from reason and into religion, I think to myself, "There goes a person who simply cannot stand being so god damned lonely any more. - Kurt Vonnegut

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Faith

It’s called Faith because it’s not knowledge. The more knowledge you have, the less faith you need. Faith doesn’t give you the answers. It just stops you from asking the questions.

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Faith is not a part of knowledge. If you have to say you have faith that something exists, then you’ve already admitted that it probably doesn’t. - G. Vorillas

Faith is not a virtue, it’s the glorification of voluntary ignorance. - Unknown

Faith is the excuse people give for believing something when they don’t have a good reason. - Matt Dillahunty

Faith is a cognitive illness disguise as a moral virtue. - Peter Boghossian

Faith is belief without proof. Faith is fine, but don't call it science. - Lloyd Auerbach

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Prayers

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If God were a being, even a supreme being, our prayers would have bored him to death long ago. - Tom Robbins

You should never trust a person who prays in public. - Stephen King

If you just sit around praying, nothing gets done. - Nora Roberts

Prayer is the stimulant of the feeble. - Abraham Miller

Prayer is the sign of your weakness. Rely on your inner strength. You will be the winner. - Amit Ray

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