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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination.… — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
“CORE MEDITATION: Breathing This classic meditation can deepen concentration by teaching us to focus on the “in breath” and the “out breath.”… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The preparation of food also serves the soul in a number of ways. In a general sense, it gives us a valuable,… — Thomas Moore Copy Share Image
“INSTRUCTIONS FOR ZAZEN First of all, you have to sit down, which you’re probably already doing. The traditional way is to sit… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“That is why the yogic system does not talk about God. It does not talk about the soul or heaven. Such talk… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
With FIVE DAYS, Douglas Kennedy has crafted a brilliant meditation on regret, fidelity, family, and second chances that will have you breathlessly… — Will Schwalbe Copy Share Image
Once an old woman came to Buddha and asked him how to meditate. He told her to remain aware of every movement… — Sogyal Rinpoche 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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
And for ego, to accept that you have ego is the only way and then it will drop out. If you know… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The only Thought which Philosophy brings with it to the contemplation of History, is the simple conception of Reason; that Reason is… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
There cannot be a new religion. Religion is a continuous living process within us which is our sustenance. It's like a ladder… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Meditation is that dimension of science which focuses on creating the right kind of interior, so that you can live a peaceful… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I'm confused, I just spend some time looking at the sky and falling into it. It's not a meditation that anyone… — Laurie Anderson 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
“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
As you do your daily meditations, your life will change. Most people change between the ages of zero to four. The older… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image