An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corr

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment. – Jane Austen, Persuasion

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Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it…. [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Because of Christianity the West has missed many things, and one of them is meditation, the rarest flowering of a human being, because they have made it equivalent to contemplation. Contemplation is thinking. Meditation is no-thinking. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning. – Jianzhi Sengcan

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