“Purification in Shinto lifts the burden from the shoulders of the individual and washes it away.” — Stuart D. B. Picken Copy Share Image
In the morning, I try to read self-help books and books on meditation. — P. R. Sreejesh Copy Share Image
I could actually be wasting my time by not meditating, as I'd be more stressed out. — Jeff Kober Copy Share Image
Mindfulness, by helping us notice our impulses before we act, gives us the opportunity to decide whether to act and how to… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
Zen values the simple, concrete, living facts of everyday direct personal experience. — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
Zazen practice and everyday activity are one thing. We call zazen everyday life, and everyday life zazen. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I do pranayama breathing now as a meditation, and that's very helpful. Meditating changed my life. — John Feldmann Copy Share Image
Mind concentrates: it acts out of the past. Meditation acts in the present, out of the present. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One or two of my friends set longevity records for people who had AIDS. What they did, incredibly hard though it was,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The bones and tendons of the mind are mindfulness and awareness. Mindfulness is the mind’s strength, and awareness is its flexibility.” — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation erases conditioning. It allows a person to channel the kundalini energy through their subtle physical body and reach enlightened states of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any… — Amanda Palmer Copy Share Image
Wisdom leads to unity, but ignorance to separation. So long as God seems to be outside and far away, there is ignorance.… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
My mornings consist of prayer, meditation & listening to Bob Marley. Perfect way to create a positive atmosphere & a positive day. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If you get frustrated and unhappy with yourself, then there is going to be a problem. You have to laugh at yourself… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer. Though a man's heart be much indisposed to… — William Bridge Copy Share Image
Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“It’s like when you’re flying in an airplane. Whenever severe turbulence comes along, the seatbelt keeps you from getting thrown around the… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Meditation does not have to be long or complicated for you to receive its benefits. If you haven’t done it before, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...… — Anonymous 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
“Mindfulness gives freedom from negative and fixed mindset to positive and growth mindset.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
The purpose of meditation is to stop thinking for a time, wait for the fog of thought to thin, and glimpse the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Intuition is a trust that if we follow our heart, if we follow our love, joy and truth, the Whole becomes enriched.” — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Movement meditation involves incorporating the flow of movement into your thoughts” — Dominique Francon Copy Share Image
You shouldn't run around killing people or eating meat. That's not what we mean by tantra. There's no need to break the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Zen is not, nevertheless, iconoclastic in the commonly accepted sense of the term,” — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Don't think you have to be solemn to meditate. To meditate, well, you have to smile a lot. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
If you think POSITIVE, sounds becomes music, movement becomes dance, smile becomes meditation, and life becomes celebration. — Jerome Roldan Copy Share Image
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’ — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“I closed my eyes to meditate, but realized that I was always meditating now, with my eyes wide open.” — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Mind delineates experience, and through the filter of mind, experience becomes something else; it becomes knowledge in tantra. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The ordinary activities I find most compatible with contemplation are walking, baking bread, and doing laundry. — Kathleen Norris Copy Share Image
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
“A person is a great process, a bridge from animal to Soul. But we do not know about it” — Anatoliy Obraztsov Copy Share Image
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