“Prayer, meditation, and confession actually have the power to rewire the brain in a way that can make us less self-referential and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
I am calling attention just to the main points of these tremendously important matters, which can be understood better by pious meditation… — Martin Chemnitz Copy Share Image
Through yoga, meditation and other spiritual practices, we can learn the ways of personal equanimity. We can also learn how to use… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
The best part of all is that no matter how long you practice, or what method you use, every technique of Buddhist… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day one should meditate on being carried away by surging waves, falling from… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo Copy Share Image
Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
To keep my head healthy, [I'm] trying to meditate every morning, which is something I'm sort of getting into more, realizing that… — Erin Richards Copy Share Image
The whole essence of Zen consists in walking along the razor's edge of Now - to be so utterly, so completely present… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“Have you ever watched one thing? – whatsoever is your last thought in the night will be your first thought in the… — Osho Copy Share Image
Meditation and spiritual practice are good, but also action. It's very important to be clear about who you are, and also about… — Carlos Barrios Copy Share Image
“On awakening let us think about the twenty-four hours ahead. We consider our plans for the day. Before we begin, we ask… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put your whole energy into meditation. Once you are centered in your being, once you know the inner path, then wherever you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
"War," says Machiavelli, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state,… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
Each one of us needs time and space for recollection, meditation and calmness… Thanks be to God that this is so! In… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
Nature in darkness groans and men are bound to sullen contemplation in the night: restless they turn on beds of sorrow; in… — William Blake Copy Share Image
There are those who want to revolutionize the world with meditation. I really don't think that is necessary. The world is already… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me closest… — Casey Carter Copy Share Image
Meditation is a great way to stay centered and I think inversions are great for aging. Specifically, I think the Kundalini yoga… — Miranda Kerr Copy Share Image
There are many other chakras, or nadis as they are also called. There are chakras in the hands, fingertips, feet and a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What would happen if you were to allow everything to be exactly as it is? If you gave up the need for… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“It is the rub that polishes the jewel,” Enso Roshi says. “Nobody ever gets to nirvana without going through samsara. Nobody ever… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
The end goal of meditation is to do whatever helps slow your mind down, in order to achieve a peaceful, positive state… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be pleasing in your sight, O LORD, my Rock and… — Beth Moore Copy Share Image
A Zen master is someone whose life is one with enlightenment and self-discovery. They can never be separated from that. They've been… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Being mindful means that we suspend judgment for a time, set aside our immediate goals for the future, and take in the… — J. Mark G. Williams Copy Share Image
The interesting thing that happens for many people when they first start meditating is that they'll be doing it for a few… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
I find the training of the mind that Zen puts people through is by far to me, the most interesting, one of… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
It is astounding how much the immune system is strengthened by reducing daily mental stress levels with either visualization or meditation. The… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“Like meditation, psychotherapy has the potential to reveal how much of our thinking is an artificial construaction designed to help us cope… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“Plato offers the amazing idea that contemplation of the way things really are is, in itself, a purifying process that can bring… — Jennifer Michael Hecht Copy Share Image
In Zen there is a sense of blending, of stepping out of your body and mind and gaining access to powers and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
“The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.”… — Thomas Stark Copy Share Image
The whole art of ecstasy, meditation, samadhi, is: How to become one with the rhythm of the universe. When it exhales, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
In this way, if you continue all the time in the way we have described from the beginning, it will become as… — Albertus Magnus Copy Share Image
A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom… — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
The contemplation of beauty, whether it be a uniquely tinted sunset, a radiant face, or a work of art, makes us glance… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image