I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“Maybe getting to know a child wasn't entirely unlike meditation. You kept going at it from all different angles, and once in… — Jean Thompson Copy Share Image
If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Also by Jimmy Carter Our Endangered Values Sharing Good Times The Hornet’s Nest The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture Christmas in Plains (illustrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just because the yogis went into the mountains to meditate does not mean you have to, too. One can meditate anywhere and… — Poonam Dhandhania Copy Share Image
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
“I have always found a natural relationship between running and meditation. Running can be a support for meditation, and meditation can be… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
I am a very organized person. I get up at 6:15 a.m., the kids get up at 6:45 a.m., and so I… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
As meditation goes deep you will feel less and less desires, more and more contentment with whatsoever you have. There will be… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Deciding to chant the mantra a certain number of times daily will help foster the japa habit. We should always keep a… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
“The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while… — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
“The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote,… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Whenever a thought occurs, be aware of it, as soon as you are aware of it, it will vanish. If you remain… — Yi Wu Taigen Leighton Copy Share Image
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“A wise man once said, 'Life is like breathing. If you try to hold it, you'll lose it. But let it come… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
“Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe… — Kim Hunter Copy Share Image
Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into… — David Abram Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“In its purest form the term meditation means two things; (1) the state of meditation, which resembles deep dreamless sleep while awake,… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
In tantra one does not seek experiences that most people would consider unspiritual and try to see truth in them. In tantra… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. His passions are mere appearances, being… — Emile Durkheim Copy Share Image
Your kundalini rises. She is your mother. She is your individual mother and she gives you the second birth. That's how you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Once the director calls for action, we act; we stop when he says 'Cut.' It is sort of like meditation - unknowingly,… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
In this whole world, there are actually very few people who study meditation with an enlightened master. This is because there are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You're not insensitive or indifferent, but you're also not vulnerable to the upheavals that cause emotional stress because you can buffer that...… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
Zen Buddhism does not preach. Sermons remain words. It waits until people feel stifled and insecure, driven by a secret longing. — Eugen Herrigel Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isnt one of them. Im not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
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