Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
Interpretation
Indifference and restlessness during meditation can create negative energy.
This quote by Paramahansa Yogananda emphasizes the importance of a focused and attentive state during meditation. Carelessness or a distracted mind not only hampers the meditation experience, but it can also generate negative energy or vibrations that affect one's inner peace and spiritual growth.
In practice
In a meditation workshop, to guide participants on the importance of focus.
Man is important in one sense only. He was made in the image of God: That is his importance. He is not important for his body, ego, or personality. His constant affirmation of ego-consciousness is the source of all his problems.
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit.
It is wisest to be impartial. If you have health, but are attached to it, you will always be afraid of losing it. And if you fear that loss, but become ill, you will suffer. Why not remain forever joyful in the Self?
From joy people are born; for joy they live; in joy they melt at death. Death is an ecstasy, for it removes the burden of the body and frees the soul of all pain springing from body identification. It is the cessation of pain and sorrow.
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Millions of people never analyze themselves. Mentally they are mechanical products of the factory of their environment, preoccupied with breakfast, lunch, and dinner, working and sleeping, and going here and there to be entertained. They don't know what or why they are seeking, nor why they never realize complete happiness and lasting satisfaction. By evading self-analysis, people go on being robots, conditioned by their environment. True self-analysis is the greatest art of progress.
I have great faith in fools,β self-confidence my friends will call it.
The price of excellence is discipline. The cost of mediocrity is disappointment.
Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.
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Writing is how I find out what I believe and what I care most deeply about. It's how I sort through the mess of daily experience and try to make sense of it - by stepping out of it for a while. Writing is how I train a searchlight into the darker corners of my self and the world, as I'm sure I'd never do otherwise.
Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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