“[THE DAILY BREATH] What do you do when you've made mistakes and you can't wash away by yourself the guilt you now… — Dragos Bratasanu Copy Share Image
It would much conduce to the public benefit, if, instead of discouraging free-thinking, there was erected in the midst of this free… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
“Meditation is when you sit down, let's say that, and don't do anything. Poetry is when you get up and do something.… — Norman Fischer Copy Share Image
Service is the highest spiritual discipline. Prayer and meditation, or knowledge of scripture and Vedanta (holy scriptures of India), cannot help you… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
At times, Zen does get into some Buddhist Cosmology. Nishijima Roshi, my main teacher would talk about that and almost every time… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
“Techniques Phase 1 Night is the time to practice this technique, as you will require deep, undisturbed concentration, and the airways are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I am not like any of them. I am disillusioned with spirituality. I am far too well-read to devote myself to a… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
“Root chakra: “I am secure, steady, and strong. I am centered.” Sacral chakra: “I experience my feelings and emotions, and express intimacy.… — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
Meditation means getting out of the mind, looking at the mind from the outside. That's exactly the meaning of the word 'ecstasy':… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
People talk of peace, "We should have peace" - how can you have peace? It's not possible, is an impossible situation. You… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“We don’t find God in temples and cathedrals. We don’t find Him by standing on a prayer rug or sitting in a… — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Once you get the hang of it, the practice can create just enough space in your head so that when you get… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“The law of karma is like the wind—blowing on all. Whether you are good or evil, bright or dim, kind or unkind,… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
As you are now you are just a liquid phenomenon, changing every moment, nothing stable. Really you cannot claim any "I" --… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“There are two types of empathy: the positive empathy and the negative empathy. When we are fully carried away by the unaware… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Thoughts are impediments to seeing your deepest nature. Don't give rise to any thought, and discover who you are. That ocean of… — H. W. L. Poonja Copy Share Image
The precise laziness is akin to letting your eyes blur or glimpsing what's at the corners in peripheral vision. Or those moments… — Dawn Lundy Martin Copy Share Image
“Smiles and kindness bring so much more than money can buy. Help and acceptance are all that is needed when you see… — Jennifer Sodini Copy Share Image
“I grow into these mountains like a moss. I am bewitched. The blinding snow peaks and the clarion air, the sound of… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
One has to know what is the ultimate goal of our life. The ultimate goal of our evolution is to become the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Whether it is in your work, or your relationships, or your food choices, or your interaction with any part of nature, or… — Evita Ochel 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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
“Learning to leave his mind in meditation could be compared to snorkelling, which is breathing with his face under water. Which is… — Matt Padwick Copy Share Image
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