We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
“The heart has all the answers. Try it now. Put your hands upon your heart. Ask a question that you already know… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
Self-Enquiry is not asking you to believe or to trust - it is putting a mirror in front of you and asking… — Mooji Copy Share Image
If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the… — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
“Martin Hart: Can I ask you something? You're a Christian, yeah? Rustin Cohle: No. Martin Hart: Well, whadaya got the cross for,… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
“The key to inner freedom, bliss, and self-realization is learning to hear and understand the language of the heart. To do this,… — Katherine Parker Copy Share Image
My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It’s not that the negative thoughts and feelings don’t arise, but when you meditate regularly, they are allowed to just be there… — Louise Watson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“The Patañjali yoga system is called aṣṭāṅga-yoga. Sometimes impersonalists pollute the Patañjali yoga system because they are monists. Patañjali describes that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Science experiments have found that people who practice meditation release significantly lower doses of cortisol, known as the stress hormone. This is… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
“feel like if I can’t have a “good” quiet time—one with prayer, meditation, Bible reading, and a devotional reading—then why bother? So… — Kathi Lipp Copy Share Image
“When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The Zen Monk Kyō Has Changed His Name to Mujū Dōryū. I Wrote This Verse to Celebrate The Great Prospects That Lie… — Baisao Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles,… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
“This is why most people do not stick with a contemplative discipline for very long; we have heard all sorts of talk… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“Even though some of you may experience some peace when you sit in meditation, don’t be in a hurry to congratulate yourselves.… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
“What value is there to reading one, three, or more chapters of Scripture only to find that after you’ve finished, you can’t… — Donald S. Whitney Copy Share Image
We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You sort of have that meditation, that happy place I go to in my brain. The happy place may be an island… — John Collins Copy Share Image
“In this book, you’ll naturally look for common habits and recommendations, and you should. Here are a few patterns, some odder than… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
