Besides, it happens (how, I cannot tell) that an idea launched like a javelin in proverbial form strikes with sharper point on… — Desiderius Erasmus Copy Share Image
The common element in all the special forms of contemplation is the loving, yearning, affirming bent toward that happiness which is the… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
“The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.” — Sri Amma Bhagwan Copy Share Image
At the museum a troubled woman destroys a sand painting meticulously created over days by Tibetan monks. The monks are not disturbed.… — Susan Griffin Copy Share Image
“Buddhist monks who had practiced more than ten thousand hours of meditation, researchers at the University of Wisconsin measured significantly higher levels… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
Zen is non-judgemental, Zen is non-evaluative, Zen imposes no character on anybody. Because to impose character, you will need valuation ⬠good and… — OSHO Copy Share Image
When doing archana (daily prayers) as a group, one person should chant the mantra and the others should repeat it. Mantras should… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Relieve Stress It has been proven that meditation can lower the levels of cortisol, one of the major stress hormones. As little… — Sonali Perera Copy Share Image
“I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am just interested in exploring what it means to live with… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
I loved meditation. I love it because that's where you find what your voice is. You cannot really find it easily in… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Resolutions, like all spiritual virtues, can be misused by the ego when mindfulness is absent. There are few things that will keep… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Next, I went in the shower to lather every inch of my body and stayed for so long inside, I walked away… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything… — Shunryu Suzuki 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
“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
“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
Through meditation one has to achieve a dreamless sleep with full alertness. Once this happens, the drop falls into the ocean and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Most people put the cart before the horse, which is an interesting way to go through life. They approach everything directly. In… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
“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
You should always feel, no matter how many times you've meditated before, that this is your first meditation. You have no idea… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
During the age of Atlantis, the low population density and the resulting purity of the earth's aura, made conditions ideal for discovering… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you surrender yourself, and do not rush, but meditate on the Word of God, you will find prayer forming in your… — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else. — Joe Rogan Copy Share Image
You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day, unless you're too busy, then you should sit for an hour. If… — Mike Tyson Copy Share Image
“The highest point reached by contemplative [anschauende] materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is the contemplation… — Karl Marx Copy Share Image
As an individual learns and practices higher meditation techniques, a tremendous volume of energy and creativity flows through them. If they direct… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When your mind drifts away from one of the secret meditation techniques, do not become upset or frustrated. Gently move your mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A Zen student asked his roshi the most important element of Zen.The roshi replied, "Attention." "Yes, thank you," the student replied. "But… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
I wrote my sonic meditations and started using them with students. I took a bunch of UCSD students out to Joshua Tree… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
See here, how fresh is the air, there is the Ganga, and the Sadhus (holy men) are practising meditation, and holding lofty… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Zen says: Remain true to your freedom. And then a totally different kind of being arises in you, which is very unexpected,… — OSHO Copy Share Image
If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
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