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Ego and emotion
We feel that we get will-power from concentration and meditation. … We concentrate, meditate and contemplate to attain will-power.

As I said before, from concentration, meditation and contemplation we derive divine will-power. … This is what happens when we exercise our divine will-power. … The divine will-power says, “I am exercising my inner will to bring my divinity to the fore....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2
Human freedom and divine freedom[^30]
You are holding meditations here twice a week. Wednesday is your most important day. … Towards the end of your Centre meditation, please sing “Give Me No Freedom.” … We will say, “Why did I exercise my freedom in my own way? That is absolutely wrong!” … You are offering your prayers and meditations to Him. … On a particular day when we pray and meditate well, we get tremendous joy....
From the book Our sweetest oneness
Meeting with Emilio Macias II
Each country is trying to exercise its supremacy. … Each human being should have more faith in prayer and meditation. … Without prayer and meditation, the peace process will be a joke; it will only be talk in the mind. … I pray and meditate for God's inner Guidance and try to become a devoted, faithful instrument of His. … And only if our body is fit will we be able to get up early in the morning to pray and meditate....
From the book Meetings with Luminaries in the Philippines
4.
He meditated with me before his events. … I was a little bit hesitant to go to Seoul, but Sudhahota came to New York and meditated with me. … I went to church — I would not say a lot, because I used running as a way to exercise my faith, my spiritual...
From the book The inner meaning of sport
Aspiration and dedication: two wings

Even now, to my great sorrow, some disciples are ready only to aspire, to pray and meditate. … Do they meditate? Do they serve mankind? … They have their own forms of exercise to do....

From the book Live in the eternal Now
United Nations

Sleeplessly the soul of the United Nations is exercising its adamantine willpower to found a world … Since then, every Tuesday and Friday I have been going to the United Nations to offer prayers and meditations … We have a well-established Meditation Group at the UN Headquarters to love and serve the United Nations...

From the book I prayerfully bow to the soul of Russia
The rules of the Master
He entered the meditation room to formally start the meeting, meditated only five minutes facing the

"Most of my disciples are very sincere and earnest, so I feel I can exercise my authority....

From the book A Galaxy of Saints
I feel it is very important, as a disciple, to still follow our discipline —- to read, to sing, to meditate
Towards the end of your birthday meditation, for the last few seconds when I smile at you, at that time … I was always running, running, running, as exercise.

She had a friend and that friend came to our apartment a few times to meditate....

From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 37
Belief and faith
ourselves, we come to know that God-realisation was always our birthright, but we had forgotten to exercise … These friends are prayer and meditation. Prayer helps us realise the highest Height. … When we meditate, the Supreme Lord, our Eternal Beloved, comes down and dictates to us what to do, how...
From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2
Initiation and the Master

If God wants to, he may appear before a seeker during the seeker's meditation or in a vision or a … Along with the mantra, the Guru gives him instruction about how to sit properly for meditation, how to

In the second method of initiation, the Guru exercises his own inner power to lift up the consciousness … initiated people occultly from miles away while they were in a very high state of consciousness during meditation

But the Master meditated on the night-soil and entered into the very heart of it, finally reaching...

From the book Palmistry, reincarnation and the dream state
Meeting between Sri Chinmoy and senor Arturo Carrion

Sri Chinmoy: Now I teach concentration, meditation and spiritual philosophy. … I tell you, practising sports and exercising is something that everybody should do. … It was something that will be done in the Olympic Winter Games — holding meditation in the morning for … We have already prepared a place for ecumenical services, but I don’t know about meditation. … I will hold meditation there....

From the book AUM — Vol.II-5, No. 9,10, September-October 1978
The role of purity in the spiritual life
Please continue this exercise, week by week, just for a month. … Our prayers and meditation lead us to that unknown. Freedom we cry for....
From the book Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India's Soul.
Truth
But if you say, "I don't know," then you are exercising your divine wisdom and saving the life of the … If he continues to pray and meditate during this period, then the doctor's lie will have proven to be...
From the book Life-tree leaves
The role of purity in the spiritual life[^5]
Please continue this exercise, week by week, just for a month. … Our prayers and meditations lead us to that Unknown. Freedom we cry for....
From the book AUM — Vol. 2, No. 7,8, Feb. — 27 Mar. 1967
Interview with the San Francisco examiner[^7]
Twice a week we pray and meditate there. Sometimes I give talks and answer spiritual questions. … But I do advise my students to take exercise. … If we are physically fit, then early in the morning we will be able to get up and meditate. … and other physical ailments, then we will not be inclined to get up early in the morning and pray and meditate … If you can pray and meditate soulfully, you don’t have to go through these traditional four stages of...
From the book AUM — Vol.II-5, No. 5,6, 27 May-June 27 1978
Power[^1]
strength of self-effacement in the world of offering and self-fulfilment in the world of aspiration and meditation

In our day-to-day life we constantly exercise power, either in accepting or in rejecting reality. … But if we exercise power to reject the world-situation, to reject the possibilities of the world, to … If we can love, serve, pray and meditate with utmost sincerity, purity and self-offering, then our God-appointed...

From the book Fifty Freedom-Boats to One Golden Shore, part 2
Power
strength of self-effacement in the world of offering and self-fulfilment in the world of aspiration and meditation

In our day-to-day life, we constantly exercise power, either in accepting or in rejecting reality. … But if we exercise power to reject the world-situation, to reject the possibilities of the world, to … If we can love, serve, pray and meditate with utmost sincerity, purity and self-offering, then our God-appointed...

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 2
Music and religion[^2]

Before he plays, the seeker-musician soulfully meditates so that he can fathom the ocean-depths.

In religion there is soulful prayer and fruitful meditation. … Fruitful meditation illumines our human heart. … A false religion will try to exercise its Himalayan Supremacy over other religions....

From the book Sound and silence, part 2
Music and religion[^94]

Before he plays, the seeker-musician soulfully meditates so that he can fathom the ocean-depths.

In religion there is soulful prayer and fruitful meditation. … Fruitful meditation illumines our human heart. … A false religion will try to exercise its Himalayan supremacy over other religions....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 3
The permanent and the impermanent[^13]
If we can exercise an iota of this will-power, then we will see that not only the action but also the … But when he prays, when he meditates, he automatically becomes a constant, conscious instrument of God

To think of God, to meditate on God constantly, is to live in God unreservedly....

From the book My Rose Petals, part 1
Belief and faith[^5]
ourselves, we come to know that God-realisation was always our birthright, but we had forgotten to exercise … These friends are prayer and meditation. Prayer helps us realise the highest Height. … When we meditate, the Supreme Lord, our Eternal Beloved, comes down and dictates to us what to do, how...
From the book Fifty Freedom-Boats to One Golden Shore, part 6
The permanent and the impermanent[^41]
If we can exercise an iota of this will-power, then we will see that not only the action but also the … But when he prays, when he meditates, he automatically becomes a constant, conscious instrument of God

To think of God, to meditate on God constantly, is to live in God unreservedly....

From the book The oneness of the Eastern heart and the Western mind, part 1
The permanent and the impermanent[^3]
If we can exercise an iota of this will-power, then we will see that not only the action but also the … But when he prays, when he meditates, he automatically becomes a constant, conscious instrument of God … To think of God, to meditate on God constantly, is to live in God unreservedly....
From the book AUM — Vol. 6, No.12, 27 July 1971
Meeting with the Most Venerable Tep Vong, Supreme Patriarch of the Mahanikaya Sect of Cambodia[^1]
I also wish you good health and would like you to do dhamma and exercise meditation in quest of knowledge...
From the book Only One Power
A Meeting with Jenny Craig, Legendary Weight Loss Entrepreneur
Physical fitness and the inner life of prayer and meditation go together. … If I am physically unfit, I will not be inspired to get up early in the morning to pray and meditate. … May I know how long you take exercise every day: half an hour or an hour?...
From the book Only One Reality
Purity
If we do not have any specific method of meditation, we can start with breathing. … If we practise this simple exercise, we will see a difference in our nature in this lifetime....
From the book Aspiration-Plants
Millennium Man of the Twenty-first Century Award [^10]
But when I think of and meditate on Madame Blavatsky, Annie Besant and Krishnamurti, I am all appreciation … long as we live in the world of desire, our dream will be of boundless material wealth so that we can exercise...
From the book Peace-Blossoms on the Philippine Life-Tree
Hinduism: The journey of India's soul
They have traditionally exercised great authority in laying down social and domestic laws, plying their

God-realisation abides in meditation, never in books. … The sages and the seers in the Upanishads asked their pupils to meditate, only to meditate. … "Meditate, the Brahman is yours! Meditate! Immortality is yours!"...

From the book Yoga and the spiritual life. The journey of India's Soul.
Hinduism: the journey of India's Soul[^2]
It has traditionally exercised great authority in laying down social and domestic laws, plying its boat

God-realisation abides in meditation; never in books. … The sages and the seers in the Upanishads asked their pupils to meditate, only to meditate. … Meditate, the Brahman is yours! Meditate, Immortality is yours!...

From the book AUM — Vol. 2, No. 6, 27 January 1967
Question: When creative people or serious artists enter into the spiritual life, sometimes they lose their creative inspiration because spirituality is so vast that it seems no longer valuable to them to make their own style of art. Or they have to compromise their spirituality just to survive as artists. I see that they often do not seriously continue to create their own art. Is there any way to utilise creativity to make the maximum progress in spirituality, instead of taking them as two different things? How can we unite these two activities into one?[^3]
that we get from creativity cannot be compared to the satisfaction that we get from our prayer and meditation … But when we have prayed or meditated most soulfully for five minutes, we feel that our entire being — … right, if you cannot see Me or feel Me everywhere, then see Me in your prayers and feel Me in your meditations … From spirituality, from prayer and meditation, we have to learn everything. … Everybody is at perfect liberty to exercise his will in this way. But then look what happens!...
From the book Sri Chinmoy answers, part 21
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Books found: 17

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