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Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of

Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day. – Deepak Chopra

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In my definition of consciousness, consciousness is the same thing as life. What wisdom traditions also call spirit. – Deepak Chopra

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Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer. – Sri Chinmoy

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[I]t can feel as if the entire body has dropped away or has become transparent, as if its substance were in some way erased. It can feel as if there is nothing but breath flowing freely across all the boundaries of the body. – Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind

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Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. – Stephen Levine

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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. – Alan Watts

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