Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Why do we call yoga a practice? The yoga poses of life—the grief, the fear, the uncertainty—rarely offer us the option of… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Dear brothers and sisters...The Lord is calling me to "climb the mountain", to devote myself even more to prayer and meditation. But… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
“Too often, people approach meditation as though they were taking medicine—it tastes bad, but they grin and bear it because it’s supposed… — John Yates Copy Share Image
I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
And the miracle is: if you can go into your suffering as a meditation, watching, to the deepest roots of it, just… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
I wake up early enough every morning to have some alone time. I have an app called Simply Being that's made for… — Kevin Griffin Copy Share Image
The Cosmos is all that is or was or ever will be. Our feeblest contemplations of the Cosmos stir us -- there… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A Meditation - Focus on and allow tension to be removed from your body. Take a deep breath and as you exhale,… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“Yet there is also something curiously exhilarating about the contemplation of deep time. True, you learn yourself to be a blip in… — Robert Macfarlane Copy Share Image
“Can an atheist practice yoga? Can an agnostic sit in meditation? Absolutely! Belief in God is not a requirement for practice. The… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
It's like an exercise: going inwards i.e. connecting with the self, then upwards towards the Supreme and then outwards (in the field… — Dr BK Satyanarayan Copy Share Image
Creativity is secondary, meditation is basic and fundamental; everything should come out of your meditation. Then it will give you a beatitude,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping.… — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
“To live in the world of creation—to get into it and stay in it—to frequent it and haunt it—to think intently and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all. Our spiritual essence is not something that… — Aaron Hoopes Copy Share Image
“Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“The awareness that we stand in the presence of the Living God is one of the most important realizations we can install… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Just like two pieces of wood can be rubbed together to produce fire and the same fire later consumes them both, intellect… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
“If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and… — Tobe Hanson Copy Share Image
“Thoughts that you do not let go leave an imprint on your mind. That imprint is the residue. Meditation is the process… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“What is meditation? What is leaving one's body? What is fasting? What is holding one's breath? It is fleeing from the self,… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“The spiritual intense fixation of the mind, by contemplation on God in Christ, until the soul be as it were swallowed up… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“In today’s cultural climate, it is hard to imagine the NCCAM funding research on the efficacy of Christian healing-prayer practices, although numerous… — Candy Gunther Brown Copy Share Image
