In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Nen is mindfulness, attention to the present with a quality of vibrant awareness, as if this present moment were one’s last.” — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
An Awakened person is someone who finds freedom in good fortune and bad. — Bodhidharma Copy Share Image
The science and technology of how this life functions and what we can do with it, is what we refer to as… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Zen is like soap. First you wash with it, and then you wash off the soap. — Yamaoka Tesshu Copy Share Image
He who is persistent will realize God. So try your best to make meditation a regular experience in your life. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Exercising has a calming influence on me. It's almost like a meditation. — Rahul Dev Copy Share Image
We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That's a fact but one we fight. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The fun is created only through innocence and innocence is the only way you can really emit also the fun. Imagine this… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“In order to live Zen, we must experience every moment fully while engaged in it. This concept seems so simple, yet it… — Ian Tuhovsky Copy Share Image
“In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
“Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form… — Isaac Watts 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
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
“Non-attachment doesn’t mean you forgo possessions, pleasure, or comfort. It simply means you are at peace when those things fail to show… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
If you develop a detachment, through thoughtless awareness, God will take over, He will do your work. He will look after you.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
What are you thinking of so earnestly?" said he, as they walked back to the ballroom; "not of your partner, I hope,… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
“True freedom is when all the stories, all the insights, all the realizations, concepts, beliefs and positions dissolve. What remains is what… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
The Zen meditative approach has a simple, unstated premise: moods and attitudes shape—determine—what we think and perceive. If we feel happy, we… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
Yoga began with the first person wanting to be healthy and happy all the time. — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference. — Dolph Lundgren Copy Share Image
“relaxations increase our joy and we need meditations for inner peace and clarity” — Kishore Bansal Copy Share Image
“The fact that you have unlimited texts does not necessarily mean that you cannot stop talking” — Dmitry Dyatlov Copy Share Image
Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We are on this earth to become the Spirit, to be a channel of God's love and above all, to enter into… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
You are never alone or helpless. The force that guides the stars guides you too. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet, It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already there.” — Deepack Chopra Copy Share Image
THEY SAYTHEIR IS LIGHT AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL,BUT YOU ARE THE ONLY LIGHT THAT CAN OUTSMART THE OTHER LIGHT AT… — Mrthrill Copy Share Image
You have to steal back yourself. You have to steal back your own mind. Meditation helps in that area. — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
I don't think most people know how to meditate - they fall asleep and they call it meditation. — Caroline Myss Copy Share Image
A person may rise to the highest degree of contemplation even when busily occupied. — Mary Euphrasia Pelletier Copy Share Image
I am on medication - I've talked about that before - just to help my anxiety, so I'm not depressed all the… — Lili Reinhart Copy Share Image
Think of your mind as a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it will become. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Meditation is a practice that fosters mental stamina, perseverance, and the ability to openly receive.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
Without full awareness of breathing, there can be no development of meditative stability and understanding. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
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