#meditation

I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in some of my meditation, but I chant now and that sort of replaced it. ↗

— John Astin

#chant #exercises #get #i #into

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self. ↗

— Sharon Salzberg

#deceit #deception #fable #fake #false

Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. ↗

— Henri Cartier-Bresson

#immediate #immediate reaction #meditation #photography #reaction

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression. ↗

— Judy Collins

#applicable #body #depression #get #help

What our eyes behold may well be the text of life but one's meditations on the text and the disclosures of these meditations are no less a part of the structure of reality. ↗

— Wallace Stevens

#disclosures #eyes #less #life #may

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality. ↗

— Richard Gere

#more #normally #reality #substantial #such

My workout is my meditation. ↗

— Kyle MacLachlan

#workout

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. ↗

— Andre Maurois

#avoid #first #lengthy #meditation #past

I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga or sport several times a week. ↗

— John McLaughlin

#been #day #diet #either #every

Meditation is listening to the song of the inner Soul, seeing the beauty of the inner Self, smelling the fragrance of the inner Spirit, experiencing the touch of the Divine inner energies and tasting the intense sweetness of the inner God. ↗

— Amit Ray

#inner-spirit #meditation #meditation-experience #beauty