“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 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
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
“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
I do an early morning meditation from 4am to 6am, a yoga class from 6am to 7am and then set an intention… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“It is not that mindfulness is the “answer” to all life’s problems. Rather, it is that all life’s problems can be seen… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you want to do Vipassana, or any silent meditation, Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential, because Christianity having poisoned your mind, that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“[T]he world as described is included in but is not the same as the world as it is. As a way of… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
When a man is stimulated by his own thoughts, full of desire and dwelling on what is attractive, his craving increases even… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatever action we are doing, we should be sure to keep the thought of God alive within. Whenever we sit or get… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“The reality of death has come upon us and a consciousness of the power of God has broken our complacency like a… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
“For example, an ENFP who recognizes that they are stuck in a loop may schedule one hour per day for yoga, meditation… — Heidi Priebe Copy Share Image
When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Like the tightly closed eyelids of a child trying to escape the reprimand of a parent, there is a part of the… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“Just as you can never squeeze water out of the water, you can never squeeze the good out of goodness: You simply… — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA Copy Share Image
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed.… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think… — Jeff Kober Copy Share Image
Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I now make meditation a daily part of my life. Ideally, I would find 20 minutes, twice a day, to sit and… — Elizabeth Vargas Copy Share Image
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