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Read through the most famous quotes by topic #meditation
The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness". ↗
#conscious-breathing #immortality #meditation #new-age #new-age-movement
Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises. ↗
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth. ↗
#nominalism #reality #symbols #art
The artist realizes himself in his work; the mind realizes itself in life. ↗
#live #meditation #mind #art
Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness. ↗
Over the years, one comes to measure a place, too, not just for the beauty it may give, the balminess of its breezes, the insouciance and relaxation it encourages, the sublime pleasures it offers, but for what it teaches. The way in which it alters our perception of the human. It is not so much that you want to return to indifferent or difficult places, but that you want to not forget. ↗
