Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.
Eknath Easwaran
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A mind that is fast is sick. A mind that is slow is sound. A mind that is still is divine.
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When we go slower, we are more patient and when we are more patient we have a choice in how we respond.
When we meditate every morning we are putting on armor for the day's battle against our own impatience, inadequacy, resentment, and hostility.
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