![[M]editation is not just being silent—that is only one part of it.... [I]t has to be creative. And when a poetry comes out of your inner silences, or a painting, it has a flavor which is not of this world.](/assets/img/quote-photos/meditation-is-not-just-being-silentthat-is-only-one-part-of-it-it-has-to.jpg)
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Just wrestle under the name of 'wrestling' or pick some other creative name. Because as soon as you make it about the fact that it's people of short stature wrestling, that's when you're inviting the exploitation. Gary Arnold
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I think we have a creative impulse where suffering can magnify our work, but so can joy. You can be in love and write the greatest love song ever. Sometimes I think too much suffering makes it difficult to do one's work. Patti Smith
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We must find creative ways to re-energize students and get them to be prolific readers.
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I'd been in college studying English creative writing and history when I made the decision to join the Marines in the runup to the Iraq war. Phil Klay
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I am encouraged by the solid momentum in our earnings and the financial and creative strengths that underpin these results.
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I am always looking for creative land deals, but it is not going to happen at that site.
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I do like to be creative and I'm very lucky that I've been given different areas in which I'm able to do that - whether it be film or television or theatre or whatever. I'm also still into music and recording. Richard O'Brien
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Food is a product of supply and demand, so try to figure out where the supplies are fresh, the suppliers are creative, and the demanders are informed. Tyler Cowen
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I feel that opiates - I include opium and all its derivatives, such as morphine, heroin, pantopon, etc. - are quite useless for any sort of creative work, useful though they may be for routine work. Much of the hard physical work in the Far East is done by opium addicts. William S. Burroughs
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In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind. Richard Davidson
meditation trying attention
We are simply committing ourselves to paying attention to our life. We use meditation to help us in that attention process. We are not trying to become good meditators. We are trying to wake up. William Martin
meditation forgiving want
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God wants to create with us. Richard Rohr
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Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered. Mike Love
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Meditation is like farming... the right soil is required to grow anything, nothing will grow if the soil is polluted by striving or pushing too hard. Jon Kabat-Zinn
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Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.
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Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.
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Meditation is not about doing something Joko Beck
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Meditation is to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world. Nhat Hanh
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The forward step must be made in silence. We detach ourselves from word forms - this can be accomplished by substituting for words, letters, concepts, verbal concepts, other modes of expressions: for example, color.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world. Virginia Woolf
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What is a street? It is where the living weep, where the dead go off in silence to their peace. William Saroyan
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There is something about silence and being in the middle of nowhere that is really very attractive. Ray Winstone
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Holy Saturday. The best reminder that the silence of God doesn't equal the absence of God. Tullian Tchividjian
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Thats when you know youve found somebody special. When you can just shut the f**k up for a minute and comfortably enjoy the silence. Uma Thurman
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Conversation in its true meaning isn't all wagging the tongue; sometimes it is a deeply shared silence. Robertson Davies
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See for me, it’s immediate. Silence is so freaking loud.' This seemed either deep or deeply oxymoronic. I wasn’t sure which. Sarah Dessen
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and I wondered if, in the end, this is how all disputes are settled, with a shared silence as things become equal. You take something from me, I take something from you. We all want balance, one way or another.