Why is meditation essential? By meditating we take our garbage out. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
“Contemplative practices have a way of gracefully gerrymandering the borders that once rigidly defined self and other.” — Kyle Parton Copy Share Image
When the faculties of mind find their poise in truth, all lesser ideas die or disappear through a process of transmutation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We can see unmistakeably that there is an inner relationship between Zen and the warrior's life. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
People seek escape in myth by any means at their disposal, including drugs, alcohol, meditation, and lies. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Meditation is about cultivating constructive emotions, like altruism, compassion. — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“The soul falls into contemplation before this sanctuary, where the celebration of love is held.” — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
Meditation is the only way to freedom from stress as it is a dimension beyond the mind. All the stress and struggle… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“An awareness of alternatives at the early stages of learning a skill gives a conditional quality to the learning, which, again, increases… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
I couldn't just sit there and meditate all morning - that's not really my thing. It's not good for me to give… — Frankie Bridge Copy Share Image
Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every cell in our body has the capacity to hold infinity. Let us tap the full potential that nature has bestowed on… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Meditation means: put the mind aside and watch. The first step - LOVE YOURSELF - will help you tremendously. By loving yourself… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Most people confuse the "now" with what is happening to them in the now. Actually what is happening to you now has… — Stephen Weiss Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were different; enjoying the pleasant without holding on… — James Baraz Copy Share Image
“Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect,… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Anything that is secret and mysterious in this system of Yoga should be at once rejected. The best guide in life is… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Meditation is the emptying of the mind of all the things that the mind has put together. If you do that -perhaps… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“If meditation is a tool, your body is the guide, and your life is the path. What are the folds? What are… — Richard L. Haight Copy Share Image
“Inner Knowledge -- You want to become wise in one lesson: First become a real human being.” — Idries Shah Copy Share Image
The most powerful benefits of meditation come from having a regular, daily practice. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Ego is even worse than dirt and filth because it attacks others. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
To please the Divine, our character, our behavior should be absolutely clean. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The appearances of the world are not the problem, it's clinging to them that causes suffering — Tilopa Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen, and the people who practice it, of course, make some people feel extremely uncomfortable. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you are truly meditative, there is no time and space for you. Time and space is just a creation of the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself. — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Meditation means seeing God within you, and love is seeing God in the person next to you. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life. — Ted Andrews Copy Share Image
“The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Zen is the game of insight, the game of discovering who you are beneath the social masks. — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
“When we relate to ourselves with loving kindness, perfectionism naturally drops away.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed… — Tobe Hanson Copy Share Image
Let go, and move closer to existence in silence and peace, in meditation. — Anonymous Copy Share Image