The first thing I do after I wake up is a morning meditation. It's just as I awake and before I open… — Tony Gonzalez Copy Share Image
We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
He who does not meditate acts as one who never looks into the mirror and so does not bother to put himself… — Pio of Pietrelcina Copy Share Image
We carry about us the burden of what thousands of people have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Quietistic meditation is easier, naturally, but a person who practices it will turn out to be just as insecure and petty as… — Thomas Hoover Copy Share Image
This is what meditation is all about, just becoming a watcher. Failure comes, success comes, you are praised, you are condemned, you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“He sees the truth as with a jolt. There it is, within his own being, lying deep down but still in his… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Indeed, we all know that the man who attentively contemplates a thing, who wants to see it as it is without changing… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
“It is important to understand that, according to Kashmir Shaivism, this analysis of all phenomena into thirty six tattvas is not an… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
“To believe happiness-misery in circumstances is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self). One becomes unhappy when he loses what he likes… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“The door of entry into this castle is prayer and meditation. If a person does not realize Whom he is addressing, and… — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
“we assert that in all mammals the center of primal, constructive consciousness and activity lies in the middle front of the abdomen,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“How is it that artists keep their powers of perception even in the days when life darkens?" he asked himself. Thinking about… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“While the bodies of young children are usually relaxed and flexible, if experiences of fear are continuous over the years, chronic tightening… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Evolution is messy. Oftentimes our brains evolve more quickly than our capacity to love. Science has unlocked many mysteries of the universe… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you’re the only weirdo weird enough to… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
“Learning to practise mindfulness greatly enhances our ability to manifest emotional intelligence and equanimity under pressure and to display calmness, empathy and… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
“I'm simply saying that there is a way to be sane. I'm saying that you can get rid of all this insanity… — Osho Copy Share Image
“To practice tantra requires even greater compassion and greater intelligence than are required on the sutra path; thus, though many persons in… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
“Left alone, I am overtaken by the northern void-no wind, no cloud, no track, no bird, only the crystal crescents between peaks,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
It is light that reveals, light that obscures, light that communicates. It is light I "listen" to. The light late in the… — John Sexton Copy Share Image
Some people are incapable of perceiving in the object of their contemplation the very thing that gives it its intrinsic life and… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I need to get better at learning how to stay calm. I'm a bit of a worrier and a stress cadet. Yoga… — Tricia Helfer Copy Share Image
Mystics knew how to channel grace through prayer and they knew the power of that. They knew how to receive guidance through… — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
Routines may include taking a warm bath or a relaxing walk in the evening, or practicing meditation/relaxation exercises. Psychologically, the completion of… — Andrew Weil Copy Share Image
Choose one meditation and then put all your effort in it. That effort has to be very regular because will is created… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates. As soon… — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Patañjali describes the fluctuations, modifications and modulations of thought which disturb the consciousness, and then sets out the various disciplines by which… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“5. Zazen, or the Sitting in Meditation. Habit comes out of practice, and forms character by degrees, and eventually works out destiny.… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
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