The goal of meditation is awareness, not relaxation.
– Eknath Easwaran
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- We can all avoid travel that is unnecessary we do not need to travel around the world when the source of all joy and all beauty is right within us. – Eknath Easwaran
- Peace would always be less compelling than war. Perhaps that was why there was so little of it in the world. (p. 160) – Eknath Easwaran
- I have tremendous respect for anyone who can control his palate enough to learn not only to drink beer but to enjoy it too. – Eknath Easwaran
- The mind is powerful, but it needs something to hold on to so it doesn’t wander. – Eknath Easwaran
- Anything that tends to make us elated is inevitably going to throw us into depression. – Eknath Easwaran
- A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine. – Eknath Easwaran
- Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past. – Eknath Easwaran
- Achieving your goal is greatExceeding your goal is exceptionalExceeding your goal and teaching others is Leadership – Joseph Swenson
- Set the goal, adjust the goal when needed, and stay locked in on the goal. – Mike Basevic
- To die famous is the goal of the immortal. To die young is the goal of the healthy. To die memorably is the goal of the survivor. – Bauvard
- The greatest fear of my life turned into the most relaxation moment when I realized -˜I am not alone in this. – Bhavik Sarkhedi
- The human organism is built for tension and relaxation, work and sleep. The principle of life is rhythm. – Mary Roach
- Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. – Edward Abbey
- Relaxation is the beginning of creativity. – Lailah Gifty Akita
- Everything in life is related to business-”your hobbies, friends, family, relaxation, career, education, etc. – Ehab Atalla
- The luxury of relaxation … is part of the healing process. – Shirley Corder
- Man is so made that he can only find relaxation from one kind of labor by taking up another. – Anatole France
- although the stress response was involuntary, the relaxation response required practice.[6] – Linda Lantieri
- The sensation of energy expands with increasing relaxation. – Ilchi Lee
- Meditation is doing what you are doing – whether you are doing formal meditation or child care. – Norman Fischer
- Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s. – Barry Graham
- The study of modern mindfulness meditation and emotional intelligence is deeply rooted in the ancient Vipassana meditation techniques. – Amit Ray
- Choiceless awareness – at every moment and in all the circumstances of life – is the only effective meditation. – Aldous Huxley
- Meditation quiets conscious thought and the physical realm, making a doorway to spiritual awareness. – Jenna Alatari
- Breath with awareness is prana. Breath without awareness is just air. – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
- Focused awareness of the Self in one direction (upayog) is considered enlightened awareness (jagruti). – Dada Bhagwan
- Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either. – Bodhidharma
- A man with awareness lives in a world much prettier and much richer than the world a man without awareness lives in! – Mehmet Murat ildan
- Where ignorance is bliss, awareness is joy, and self-awareness is ??????ic. – Nityananda Das
- Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice. – Simon Boylan
- Self-awareness paradoxically requires an awareness of the other. – Charlie Jane Anders
- Women will buy products in an attempt to become the impossible goal. Men will buy products in an attempt to mate with the impossible goal. – David McRaney
- Life being full of sense and devotion to a significant goal, makes looking for my destination a significant goal – Sunday Adelaja
- The goal of a child’s life is maturity-”and the goal of a Christian’s life is spiritual maturity. – Billy Graham
- Have you achieved your goal today? Fantastic! Set a goal for tomorrow, next month, next year, and years from now. – Debasish Mridha
- A dream written down with a date becomes a goal. A goal broken down into steps becomes a plan. A plan backed by action makes your dreams come true. – Greg Reid
- Money should never be the goal. It should only be the means of attaining the goal. – Sunday Adelaja
- Every advancing step I take toward my goal of comfort is yet another retreating step I take away from God’s goal of the impossible. – Craig D Lounsbrough
- A goal that is not written is not a goal. It only becomes real when you write it down. – Bryant McGill
- Primary goal for the author: ‘Write what you mean to say’Primary goal for the reader: ‘Read what the author actually writes – Falcon Dove