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35.
Two things I truly love: My life's Prayer-mountain And my heart's Meditation-fountain.
From the book My eagerness-heart
August 19
Love is Life.

Life is Light. Light is God's Meditation and man's salvation.

From the book God's Hour
29
My prayer-mind Is my miracle-power. My meditation-heart Is my satisfaction-tower.
From the book I am my life's God-hunger-heart, part 2
9
Contemplation is something Far beyond the vastness Of meditation. Contemplation is God-oneness itself.
From the book I am my life's God-hunger-heart, part 4
38
While practising meditation soulfully, Remember that The heart of regularity-joy Makes us perfect.
From the book I am my life's God-hunger-heart, part 4
138
My prayer

Is my life’s anchor.My meditation

Is my life’s compass.

From the book The caged bird and the uncaged bird
5899. My mind's simplicity
My mind’s simplicity Helps me pray sincerely. My heart’s sincerity Helps me meditate soulfully.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 59
Meditation loves ecstasy
Meditation loves ecstasy. Ecstasy loves only God. God sleeplessly loves His favourite son: Peace.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 15
7173. Concentration Means
Concentration means Success immediate. Meditation means Progress ultimate. Surrender means Satisfaction within, Satisfaction without.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 72
596. Secrets
Prayer is the secret Of tremendous success. Meditation is the secret Of precious progress.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 6
My prayer and my meditation
My prayer Is my endless hope. My meditation Is my birthless and deathless joy.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 21
2030. God cherishes me
God punishes me And my conditional prayers. God cherishes me And my unconditional meditations.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 21
5659. God's Forgiveness-Depth
If you meditate on God’s Forgiveness-Depth, Then you are repaying God’s Compassion-Height.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 57
1887. My soulful prayers
My soulful prayers Have saved my heart. My fruitful meditations Have liberated my life.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 19
5149. Your life's prayer
Your life’s prayer Must unveil the truth. Your heart’s meditation Must prevail over falsehood.
From the book Ten Thousand Flower-Flames, part 52
2.
When I pray to God, I accumulate. When I meditate on God, I assimilate.
From the book Each hour is a God-Hour
48.
What I need is A fast-growing prayer-plant Inside my meditation's soul-soil.
From the book Each hour is a God-Hour
909.
Each time I have a deep meditation, I free myself From earthly attachment-pains.
From the book Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 10
981.
The meditation of the soul Can synthesise and harmonise The mind and the heart.
From the book Two God-Amusement-Rivals: my Heart-Song-Beauty and my Life-Dance-Fragrance, part 10
1.
Prayer is man’s soulful cry for God. Meditation is man’s fruitful smile in God.
From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No. 7, July 1980
7.
Prayer reminds us of our hidden sins. Meditation reminds us of our forgotten sun.
From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No. 7, July 1980
11.
Prayer soulfully reveals man’s faith in God. Meditation smilingly reveals God’s faith in man.
From the book AUM — Vol.II-6, No. 7, July 1980
Interviewer: This is a very simple and basic question, but I would like to ask what meditation is … and how one can reach the state of meditation.
Sri Chinmoy: Meditation is conversation with God. Here I am conversing with you. … Similarly, when we meditate, we can speak to God and He can speak to us, and we can understand one another … this conversation with God every day, as we practise other things, we can easily make progress in our meditation … The first thing we need to do in order to meditate is to silence our mind. … Finally we try to offer to the world the same joy, love and peace that we have gotten from our meditation...
From the book Japan, my life bows to your heart
Question: I attend the meditation here at the college once a week but I feel I need more spiritual … If I try to meditate alone, it's different. I feel that there is something I am losing.
When you are meditating with your group, there are four or five persons meditating together against only … one person: ignorance, whereas when you meditate at home, you are one individual and ignorance is another … If you meditate at home alone, you are fighting against ignorance all by yourself. … But if you can meditate with others, then you will have more confidence in what you are doing....
From the book Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 1
Question: What kind of knowledge can we achieve through meditation?[^86]
Sri Chinmoy: It is not intellectual knowledge that we get from meditation; what we get is inner knowledge … want to illumine the darkness that covers our body, vital, mind, heart and central being, then we need meditation … Meditation is the light switch that will illumine our existence; only it takes a little time. … If we meditate soulfully for a few months or a few years, then gradually we will see illumination taking … But if we can meditate soulfully and devotedly for many, many years on a regular, daily basis, then most...
From the book My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
Question: Do you achieve this through meditation?
Sri Chinmoy: It is all done through meditation. But we use the term "aspiration." … Aspiration includes concentration, meditation and contemplation. … Then the second step is meditation and the third step is contemplation. … Meditation is certainly the answer. … Similarly, if we meditate on a divine object or inwardly cry for it, we are bound to get it....
From the book Occultism and mysticism
Question: Sometimes when I get into meditation I feel peace and light all around me. … Then someone calls me from the kitchen or some other place and I have to stop my meditation.
Sri Chinmoy: If somebody calls you during your meditation, do not be upset. … What you are doing is separating your life of meditation from the world of reality. … Instead, try to feel that you are bringing the flow of your meditation into the new situation which is … By extending your meditation in this way, you will see it inside the situation also. … Meditation is not only in silence but also in the hustle and bustle of the world....
From the book Problems! Problems! Are they really problems? part 2
23 November
I was meditating in the Meditation Hall when I heard Amrita-da calling me. … This kind of message you get only from your meditation." … Then with a smile he said to me: "I was under the impression that you were a good meditator, but now … You are able to hear me call you during your so-called deep meditation."...
From the book A service-flame and a service-sun
Question: During a meditation, if something external to the meditation occurs — such as noise or … something unforeseen — is it better to include it in the meditation or to try to shut it out and pursue … the meditation?
Sri Chinmoy: Each seeker has to know his own standard of meditation. … If we are a beginner, we should feel that anything that is not part of the meditation is like an intruder … But if we are very advanced, and there is a disturbing sound or a noise during your meditation, we can … challenging foreign element into an inner music, a thrilling or haunting music, which will really add to our meditation … When we have this capacity, we shall include the disturbance in our meditation....
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
Question: Sometimes when I get into meditation I feel peace and light all around me. … Then someone calls me from the kitchen or some other place and I have to stop my meditation.
Sri Chinmoy: If somebody calls you during your meditation, do not be upset. … What you are doing is separating your life of meditation from the world of reality. … Instead, try to feel that you are bringing the flow of your meditation into the new situation which is … By extending your meditation in this way, you will see it inside the situation also. … Meditation is not only in silence but also in the hustle and bustle of the world....
From the book Beyond Within — A collection of writings 1964-1974
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Books found: 17

Meditation
The meditation-world
Concentration, meditation, contemplation
Meditation: God's Blessing-Assurance
The hour of meditation
My meditation-heart
Meditation: God's Duty and man's beauty
The mind and the heart in meditation
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 1
Meditation: man's choice and God's Voice, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 2
Meditation: humanity's race and Divinity's Grace, part 1
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 2
Meditation: God speaks and I listen, part 1
United Nations Meditation-Flowers and To-morrow's Noon
Fifty-Four Morning Prayer-Cries and Morning Meditation-Smiles
My meditation-service at the United Nations for twenty-five years
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