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MEDITATION

Meditation is transformation. When you have seen a little glimpse that you are the creator of your own misery, it will be very difficult for you now to go on creating it.
- Dharma

Meditation is simply the courage to be silent and alone with yourself. By meditating, slowly slowly, you will feel in you a new quality, more life, more joy and beauty. Everything is within yourself!
- Dharma 

Meditation awakens the seeker to what is always present, what is always available.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org

When you meditate daily, you bring an atmosphere of selflessness and compassion to your life.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org

The importance of a quiet mind cannot be overestimated. It is the key to Realization. As we grow in spiritual depth, we become increasingly able to shift our attention from self-indulgence to Self-awareness. We can choose thoughts that are peaceful rather than ego-centered. In fact, we actually want to choose peace. Isn't that a nice change?
- Swami Lotus, www.watermoonrefuge.org

Everything that comes is a manifestation of our own mind. Everything that comes is our teacher. Understanding this, being willing to take responsibility, not putting anything outside, is the work of yogis. We are yogis.
- Swami Lotus, www.watermoonrefuge.org

Meditation is the essential nature of every soul.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org

Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.
- Eknath Easwaran

Clarity comes to the one who meditates on love.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org

Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards in prayer for five short minutes.
- Etty Hillesum

Meditation is the exit out of pain.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org

You only need to witness the magic within yourself to understand what the quieting of the mind can bring you.
- Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati, www.kashi.org