The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Buddha activity doesn't mean radiating light and elevating yourself up a thousand feet in the air. That's not the point. The point… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have… — Dōgen Copy Share Image
Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If you receive empowerment, it's about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it's about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it's about bodhicitta. Everything… — Garchen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
“The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
I want people to look at themselves. I want people to go into a space for meditation. It's funny to use a… — David W. Marsden Copy Share Image
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in… — John Astin Copy Share Image
Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right… — Yogaswami Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get… — Mooji Copy Share Image
The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
“In meditation practice, we build the energy of awareness until it grows powerful enough to see entirely different levels of reality.” — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I have done various yoga and meditation courses and Kriya yoga as well. This has enabled me to get rid of my… — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Shedule it as you… — Roy Davis Copy Share Image
When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
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