“When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life. — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it. — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves. — Kathleen McDonald Copy Share Image
Action should be founded on contemplation, and those of us who act don't put enough time, don't give enough emphasis, to contemplation. — Robert McNamara Copy Share Image
If you want to simplify your life, meditation is the answer. If you want to fulfil your life, meditation is the answer.… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
When you meditate, don't think about what is happening. Rather, let your awareness be seated in the tender warmth you feel in… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
Keep a constant awareness and a conscious effort to say good words, perform good actions, and to practice patience and compassion. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The person who practices advanced meditation is usually not married, some are. They usually don't have children, some do. But chances are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Zen is Tantric Buddhism, Vajrayana is tantric Buddhism - these are various forms of it. Tantric Buddhism simply means cutting to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour's walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone,… — Tom Hodgkinson Copy Share Image
“If a person does five samayiks (introspective analysis by being as Self) he will say, ‘I did five’. This is how he… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“If we suffer from dependent happiness, we are caught up in a vicious circle of expectation and deception. Constantly seeking more and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Intuition is the language of silence, the Existential language. The word "in-tuition" means to listen within yourself. Intuition is the silent voice… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Silence is a mirror. So faithful, and yet so unexpected, is the relection it can throw back at men that they will… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“mindfulness meditation will transform your reactivity to the signals by turning down the volume on your amygdala and orbital frontal cortex. But… — Richard J. Davidson Copy Share Image
My mother read that parents should spend quality time with their children. One way is to sign up for organized activities together.… — Julie Anne Peters Copy Share Image
You have to rise up to that state of thoughtless awareness where you grow spiritually. If you are not in thoughtless awareness,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Thinking protects us against experiencing the overwhelming wonderfulness of life.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Dhyan (meditation) is an effect. An effect cannot be 'done', it arises; it comes about naturally.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have. — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the simplest process through which you can create harmony between the body, mind, spirit, and nature.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
If you have love, you can correct people without saying anything to them because love is a supreme intelligence. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Real meditation engenders humility and purity, always. Yet I don't really think it demands any kind of lifestyle. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting. — Billy Connolly Copy Share Image
Learn the motions of infinity within your mind. Your mind becomes a perfect mirror to the motions of infinity. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The focus of education should not be on suppressive information but on kindling the thirst for knowing. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“It’s affirming that we can look at any experience from the fullness of our being and get past the shame we carry.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love. — John Main Copy Share Image
“The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
