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Meditation
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“Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.”
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“Only in the stillness of detachment can the soul yield up her secrets.”
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“I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have not. I prefer to look outside myself if I possibly can, not inside. Meditation reminds me too forcibly of being made to lie on a mat at nursery school and take an hour's nap.”
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“... meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating ...”
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“Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear / the many crickets' voices calling as well.”
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“Prayer is speaking to God. Meditation is listening to God. Trust tranquility.”
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“Jules introduced me to a kind of 'narcolepsy,' that practice of mental droning that goes by the brand name 'Transcendental Meditation.'”