How to Meditate- And Why You Should

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This episode is for anyone who used to meditate and stopped, or those who are thinking about starting but don't know where to begin.
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Resources:

Insight Timer free meditation app https://insighttimer.com/

A FREE short video series on how to meditate https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thcEuMDWxoI&list=PL-bU36DrFzitVkenIgxr3AYv8kpHSQaQF

Quotes:

"Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, “Be more silent.” As that happens, your soul starts to revive." -Rumi

"When you remain silent from the thinking and willing of self, the Eternal hearing and seeing and speaking will be revealed in you, and God will see and hear through you." - Jakob Boehme

“God, whose love and joy are present everywhere, can’t come to visit you unless you aren’t there.” ­- Angelus Silesius

"True prayer requires no word, no chant, no gesture, no sound. It is communion, calm and still with our own godly ground." - Angelus Silesius

“Although the modes of meditation may appear to be different from one another, in the end all of them become one. There is no need to doubt this. One may adopt that path which suits the maturity of one’s mind.” - Ramana Maharshi

“What is meditation? What is abandonment of the body? What is fasting? What is the holding of breath? Is it a temporary palliative against the pain and folly of life? The driver of oxen makes this same flight, takes his temporary drug when he drinks a few bowls of rice wine or coconut milk in the inn. He then no longer feels his Self, no longer feels the pain of life; He then experiences temporary escape. Falling asleep over his bowl of rice wine, he finds what Siddhartha and Govinda find when they escape from their bodies by long exercises and dwell in the non self.” - Hermann Hesse

“At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I’ve made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.” -Ringo Starr

"Silence and solitude, the soul's best friends." - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

"You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self." - Richard Bach

“If you don't have answers to your problems after a four-hour run, you ain't getting them.” - Christopher McDougall

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