1. "Praying is talking to God. Meditating is listening."
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Christopher Moore, Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff
2. "The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace."
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Neil Hayes, A View From A Lake: Buddha
3. "You’re a pretty person, Scarlett, he said. Especially when you are meditating devilment."
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Margaret Mitchell, Gone With the Wind
4. "As long as there is a 'you' doing or not-doing, thinking or not-thinking, 'meditating' or 'not-meditating' you are no closer to home than the day you were born."
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Quote by Wei Wu Wei
5. "Remember why you are meditating: to balance the activity of your life by working with your mind."
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Sakyong Mipham, Running with the Mind of Meditation: Lessons for Training Body and Mind
6. "The ultimate reason for meditating is to transform ourselves in order to be better able to transform the world."
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Matthieu Ricard, Why Meditate?: Working with Thoughts and Emotions
7. "The belief in death leads meditating about life; meanwhile, the belief in life leads you thinking about death."
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Sorin Cerin, Wisdom Collection: The Book of Wisdom
8. "It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to dozing."
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Ken Follett, The Pillars of the Earth
9. "He realised, more vividly than ever before, that art had two constant, two unending preoccupations: it is always meditating upon death and it is always thereby creating life."
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Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
10. "As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad. Keep meditating.'"
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Pema Chödrön, The Places That Scare You: A Guide to Fearlessness in Difficult Times