By practicing meditation we establish love, compassion, sympathetic joy & equanimity as our home. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Zen professes itself to be the spirit of Buddhism, but in fact it is the spirit of all religions and philosophies, — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.” — Tiziana Stupia Copy Share Image
“Meditation for a while can bring a lot peace in a while. :)) It can turn peace into bless.” — Deepndense Copy Share Image
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality. — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon. — Mike Love Copy Share Image
“This would be a Zen-like state of productivity, in which you deal with what’s present from a perspective that is both detached… — David Allen Copy Share Image
“We attach to anything or anybody because we think that they make us happy. We attach to the happiness so much. On… — Suman Jyoty Bhante Copy Share Image
The ultimate purpose of Zen,' I remembered the roshi telling me, 'is not in the going away from the world but in… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
I believe that if people would learn to use LSD's vision-inducing capability more wisely, under suitable conditions, in medical practice and in… — Albert Hofmann Copy Share Image
“Procrastination is the enemy of accomplishment—not simply because the task you are avoiding fails to get done, but because all of your… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
When you are in doubt, wait. Fall back on the contemplation of your vision, and increase your faith and purpose. And by… — Wallace D. Wattles Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness, the aware, balanced acceptance of present experience, is at the heart of what the Buddha taught. This book is meant to… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Meditation, godliness, enlightenment, nirvana, they all came into being through love, because through love a glimpse was achieved. And when the glimpse… — Osho Copy Share Image
I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
“Meditation and running are essentially addressing these two kinds of pain. Of course, we cannot run all day and all night, and… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
People cleave to their worldly possessions and selfish passions so blindly as to sacrifice their own lives for them. They are like… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
From my experience, meditating can bring up the most stressful thoughts. — Mike White Copy Share Image
Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Those who are pure of heart find new thoughts whenever they meditate. — Nachman of Breslov Copy Share Image
I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In meditation have a complete focus on light, brightness, spiritual oneness, God, infinity, eternity. You know - silly things. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In tantra, samsara is viewed as the same thing as nirvana. Eating a hamburger is meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is essential. I try to start each morning with a focus on the breath and three things I'm grateful for. — Alaska Copy Share Image
Zen Makes use, to a great extent, of poetical expressions; Zen is wedded to poetry. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“The closer one gets to the heart of truth, often times, the resistance or ego, gets really epic nasty!” — johnjwillard Copy Share Image
Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
If you are doing mindfulness meditation, you are doing it with your ability to attend to the moment. — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Silence has a regenerative power of its own. It is always sacred. It always returns you home. — Barbara De Angelis Copy Share Image
“Yes, silence is painful, but if you endure it, you will hear the cadence of the entire universe.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
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