The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Many people believe that the Zen lifestyle is something that is both mystical and out of this world, when in truth it… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
“One may practice zazen for twenty, thirty, even fifty years, and go through failures and frustrations, but every defeat and time of… — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Offer it up personally,then. Right now. I thought of how many people go to their graves unforgiven and unforgiving. I thought of… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“8. Change as seen by Zen. Zen, like Hinayanism, does not deny the doctrine of Transience, but it has come to a… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Healing is not only a specific method, healing is also to invite another person into our own inner light, to invite another… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Stop, look, investigate, ask the right questions, come to the right conclusions and have the courage to act on them and see… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Even though there are so many teachings, so many meditations, so many instructions, the basic point of it all is just to… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I am running on fumes, so it's time to get centered again. I start with eating healthier and cutting out caffeine -… — Amber Valletta Copy Share Image
Meditation means conscious self-expansion. Meditation means one's conscious awareness of the transcendental Reality. Meditation means the recognition or the discovery of one's… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A few moments of silence may be all the meditation we need at times. Our homes could have a little space for… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it… — Kosho Uchiyama Copy Share Image
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Politicians should be dedicated to the welfare of the people, but sometimes politics becomes like a game of chess, in which the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
If your mind is happy then you are happy anywhere you go. When wisdom awakens within you, you will see Truth wherever… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“Yes, we have abolished the distance that artistic contemplation necessarily requires. So what is left? Love plus anatomy are left.” — Michel Tournier Copy Share Image
“Misery is an unpleasant painful experience (ashata vedaniya); result of misery is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Have a namasté day today. Look into the eyes of everyone you meet and silently honor his or her soul. Say silently,… — Michelle S. Fondin Copy Share Image
Chakras are organizational centers for the reception, assimilation, and transmission of life-force energy. They are the stepping stones between heaven and earth. — Anodea Judith Copy Share Image
“In Druidry rather than performing 'spells' to bring about change, we focus on making changes in our life through study, meditation, therapy,… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
“Mark also pointed out that mindfulness was a skill—one that would improve as I got more meditation hours under my belt. In… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
The mind creates all the problems for an individual or for the collective. One has to go beyond the mind into thoughtless… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The path of Zen is not easy. It's wonderful. It's beautiful beyond compare. You will experience more ecstasy and beauty than most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Praying for peace is wonderful; meditations on loving kindness and compassion are sublime; acts of generosity and healing have the power to… — Darren Main 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
“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
“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
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
Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer. — Kedar Joshi 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