“Whenever I start to doubt if I’m worth the eternal trouble of medication and therapy, I remember those people who let the… — Jenny Lawson Copy Share Image
“It is considered as artadhyan (adverse internal state that results in hurting the self) only when the mind and the Self (Soul)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Meditation has been a big change for me in a super-positive way. I see the result and strength and clarity - even… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
“Typically, awareness is only directed to the pronounced sensations of the body—the pleasurable and the painful. In yoga, over and over again,… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered, that damage done to oneself and… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is a mirror of our inner… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of… — Dustin Moskovitz Copy Share Image
There are a host of surprises among longer-term meditators, like a boost in the immune system from a day of practice, which… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Whether you feel that your soul is pleased by the conception or contemplation of harmonies, or that your mind is stimulated by… — RosettaBooks Copy Share Image
I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was,… — George Muller Copy Share Image
The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind. Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge… — Marcelo Goianira Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Eternity is here, always alive in the present moment. Mindfulness invites us to return to now, the present moment, instead of being… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses.… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“I also figured out that I could use my workouts as a form of meditation because I concentrate so much on the… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“I stood in the doorway of one room, lost in a meditation of the house's recurring habits. People had made love here,… — Bill Buford Copy Share Image
So meditation is not really mind-effort. Real meditation is not effort at all. Real meditation is just allowing the mind to have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence... where you are not doing anything. The moment doing enters, you become tense;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Why they always look so serious in Yoga? You make serious face like this, you scare away good energy. To meditate, only… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Those who are more adapted to the active life can prepare themselves for contemplation in the practice of the active life, while… — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
After you have made a decision that is pleasing to God, the Devil may try to make you have second thoughts. Intensify… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Being in your Element is about connecting with and dwelling in the positive feelings that express and fulfill your own spiritual energies.… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
You must have patience with others because, if you do not have patience, your sincerity will start doubting itself. So you must… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Never allow any unnecessary or vain thought to occupy your mind. This is more easily said than done. You cannot make your… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
Now when you meditate, try to meditate in a sustained way, first of all sustain it. Then you find that you are… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness (present-moment awareness) is deliberately focusing our attention on our thoughts, emotions, feelings, sensations and mental activity without losing awareness of what… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
“We only know a person’s intentions through awareness. The mind is easily influenced by the suggestions and emotions of others. We are… — Robert Cosmar Copy Share Image
“At the cost of efficiency always choose awareness, and you will create the situation in which meditation will become possible. You are… — Osho Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“Tapascharya, spiritual practice means: accepting the truth that you are alone; that there is no way one can have a friend, a… — Osho Copy Share Image
