“A blanket can be a meditation device. If the blanket is white, and you stare at it, you can blank out your… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Having once aroused in our mind enough faith in our own will-power to create a universe of contemplation and forget everything else,… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
Immersed in solitude, he would dream or read far into the night. By protracted contemplation of the same thoughts, his mind grew… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The only place healing can occur, wisdom can be realized, compassion can be extended, and peace can be experienced, is the present… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Whether your awareness is focused on your own emotions and perceptions or directed toward the preferences, needs, and feelings of others, being… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
Kundalini is your Mother. She has been with you for ages and She has been waiting for this day when you could… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Some of us live in the future, Connected to hurts from our past, If tomorrow is colored by bitter regret, Then today… — J.A. Conner Copy Share Image
When you climb a ladder and arrive on the sixth step and you think that is the highest, then you cannot come… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Samadhi means when sushupti, dreamless sleep, becomes alert, awake. When you are asleep as far as the body is concerned, you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I have never got on with the quietist movements: they lapse too easily into self-congratulations: I have found the oneness, you have… — Fay Weldon Copy Share Image
Zen purposes to discipline the mind itself, to make it its own master, through an insight into its proper nature. This getting… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The first meditation is the meditation of love, in which you so adjust your heart that you long for the weal and… — James Allen Copy Share Image
Science tells us more and more now that there is a strong connection between emotional well-being and health outcomes, and that you… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“Whispering wind, a quiet breath exhaled across years of tiny, fragments of light. Glowing in the breeze, like silent fireworks, accentuating my… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
Each of us has a soul, but we forget to value it. We don't remember that we are creatures made in the… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
Meditation, you know, comes by a process imagination. You go through all these processes purification of the elements - making the one… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the person who has self control but doesn't care anymore. It is for the person who is able to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whenever we practise meditation, whether or not our meditation is clear, we are performing a virtuous mental action that is a cause… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The secret, or innermost, level of wisdom is pure intuition, clarity, lucidity, innate wakefulness, presence, and recognition of reality. This transcendental wisdom… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With the power of one's will we stop thought and move into alternate forms of perception. We gain that power through practicing… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat.… — Natalie Wright Copy Share Image
“Aboard a boat of leaves I float, allowing new stories to unfold. Of cresting and falling winds, streaking words across the sky.… — Susan L. Marshall Copy Share Image
The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Zen is consciousness unstructured by particular form or particular system, a trans-cultural, trans-religious, transformed consciousness. — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Looking at everything through your phone is only numbing your perception - it does not really enhance your experience of life in… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
In Zen we strive to bring both the mind and the body into perfect combination, so that there is no intrinsic difference… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first thing to realize in meditation is that there is no authority, that the mind must be completely free to examine,… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains… — Hsing Yun Copy Share Image
The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. Hold your right or left hand out. Now say "Me" and,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
People get embarrassed about admitting they feel low but you can't help the way you feel. Which is why exercise, taking vitamins… — Shirley Ballas Copy Share Image
You may go on reading any number of books on Meditation. They can only tell you ‘Realize the Self’. The Self cannot… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“has achieved Satori in Zen is described. They are qualitatively the same experience. It is a natural human state, albeit a state… — David Tuffley Copy Share Image
“Meditation is for many a foreign concept, somehow distant and foreboding, seemingly impossible to participate in. But another word for meditation is… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Surrender is not that you should give up your family, give up your children, or give up your houses and homes and… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“As the twelfth-century Tibetian yogi Milarepa said when he heard of his student Gampopa's peak experiences, 'They are neither good nor bad.… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
We can all learn to conquer hatred through love -drawing on the power released through the practice of meditation to throw all… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
I think there's beauty in repetition. And that's part of my culture and African culture as well: repeated things, mantra. It's spiritual,… — Robert Glasper Copy Share Image