If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Whenever one starts meditating, the mind becomes rebellious. It starts all types of arguments: “What are you doing, why are you wasting… — Osho Copy Share Image
You have to establish your love. You should feel a hankering for others. Now the competition has to change, the style of… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Lizzie said that if you imagined you were standing on the moon, looking down on the earth, you wouldn't be able to… — Sharon Creech Copy Share Image
Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“In adults, mindfulness training has been shown to positively influence important regions of the brain having to do with executive functioning, including… — Eline Snel Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“You’ve got to practice meditation when you walk, stand, lie down, sit, and work, while washing your hands, washing the dishes, sweeping… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Initially I was very drawn to the Tao Te Ching, the Taoist philosophy. It was helping me deal with the balance of… — Joshua Waitzkin Copy Share Image
I never really wanted to have a Guru, I was more interested in Buddhist philosophy and meditation, and had a psychological background… — Surya Das Copy Share Image
“New karma is being made all the time. When one acts with a positive motivation, goodness is furthered. When one acts out… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
“I believe contemplation shows us that nothing inside us is as bad as our hatred and denial of the bad. Hating and… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The postures are only the "skin" of yoga. Hidden behind them are the "flesh and blood" of breath control and mental techniques… — Georg Feuerstein Copy Share Image
Eventually, meditation will make our mind calm, clear, and as concentrated as a laser which we can focus at will. This capacity… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“A famous Japanese Zen master, Hakuun Yasutani Roshi, said that unless you can explain Zen in words that a fisherman will comprehend,… — Jeff Bridges Copy Share Image
You have to get something that is beyond, something special, something unique that happens to you, by which you become one with… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“On considering these instances it is indubitably clear that sati has a crucial role to fulfill in the realm of samatha .… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything.… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Yoga is an ancient discipline in which physical postures, breath practice, meditation, and philosophical study are tools for achieving liberation. In my… — Rodney Yee Copy Share Image
“Rather than simply training our children’s minds to absorb and regurgitate facts so that they can do well on standardized tests, mindfulness… — Patricia A. Jennings Copy Share Image
“We ought to consider not only that our life is daily wasting away and a smaller part of it is left, but… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
There is no format. There is no fucking meditation process. There is nothing that goes on except me going in the studio… — Dr Dre Copy Share Image
“The Way of the Heart is not the way of the intellect. For indeed that aspect of the mind was never designed… — Shanti Christo Foundation Copy Share Image
Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence... your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
There is a possibility in human minds of something mysterious as the night-wind, deep as the sea, calm as the stars, and… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Once we understand cause and effect, we can stop complaining about the effects of our choices. We can start making more mindful… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Indian forms of yoga have spread throughout the world due to their objectives of promoting health and harmony. Japan is but one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Technology is neutral. You can use [it] to become frenetic and to go out of your mind. But you can also use… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Know the bondage and attachments from inside and from root to be free. Don't waste time on leaves of life, Awake and… — Harsh Ranga Neo Copy Share Image
“One must be present, fully and deeply, in the garden of the now. In this state of presence, the ego’s chatter can… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!" The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
The absolute awareness only comes when you become the Spirit. When you get your realization and you become the Spirit. When you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“When you live a Zen lifestyle, you are living in tune with whatever it is that you are doing on a day-to-day… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image
“Do numbers hold spiritual significance? Perhaps they do. For me, the most powerful numbers are two and six because when you multiply… — Darren Main Copy Share Image