Meditation is misunderstood as something you envision in your head, when in fact it is something to be seen with your own eyes. What you begin to see is that the place where you thought your life occurred - the cave of rumination and memory, the cauldron of anxiety and fear - isn't where your life takes place at all. Those mental recesses are where pain occurs, but life occurs elsewhere, in a place we are usually too preoccupied to notice, too distracted to see: right in front of our eyes. The point of meditation is to stop making things up and see things as they are. . Karen Maezen Miller
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  1. We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation. - Samael Aun Weor
  2. Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form. - Anonymous
  3. Sometimes it was during the breaks that the real meditation happened - moments when it was obvious that wisdom is not something you have, but a wave-length you tune in to. - Matt Padwick
  4. I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle. - Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
  5. Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing. - Anonymous
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  1. Happiness is simple. Everything we do to find it is complicated.
  2. Your life is your practice. Your spiritual practice does not occur someplace other than in your life right now, and your life is nowhere other than where you are. You are looking for answers, insight, and wisdom that you already possess. Live the life in...
  3. The life of a mother is the life of a child: you are two blossoms on a single branch.
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