There are five stages of meditation, each one leading gradually into the next: concentration, meditation, contemplation, illumination, and inspiration. — Benjamin Creme Copy Share Image
I can let go of a lot of stuff, but I focus on things I think I should, like dancing, because it… — Yuan Yuan Tan Copy Share Image
Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to… — Abbas Kiarostami Copy Share Image
Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think that both Bernie [Sanders] and Hillary [Hillary] have highlighted how much, over the last few decades, we have seen the… — Julian Castro Copy Share Image
The main thing for a gymnast is total concentration while competing. At such moments one has to put everything else behind. I… — Ludmilla Tourischeva Copy Share Image
Slowly, with a look of intense concentration, he got up and advanced on me ... put out a front paw, and stroked… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Just as the education of nerve and sinew is vital to the excellent athlete and education of the mind is vital to… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
But still, I’d be darned if I was going to be one of those Americans who stomp around Italy barking commands in… — Barbara Kingsolver Copy Share Image
Parents who want a fresh point of view on their furniture are advised to drop down on all fours and accompany the… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
From a spectator point of view, Test cricket is not important; people hardly watch Test cricket. But as a player, Tests are… — Yuvraj Singh Copy Share Image
Do not personally give any more conscious consideration, either of you, to events that you do not want to happen. Any such… — Seth Copy Share Image
The body has a wisdom of its own. However, slowly and circuitously that wisdom manifests, once it is experienced it is a… — Marion Woodman Copy Share Image
There could be an independent labor-based party, which might over time become an important force the way the Labor Party did in… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If you watch Rafael Nadal play tennis, you can only respond with amazement and great admiration. He is an incredible athlete with… — Steffi Graf Copy Share Image
“The more you concentration on God, the longer your conversation with him lasts and the holier his consacration will be on you.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
Non-violent resistance activities cannot succeed against an enemy that is able freely to use violence. That's pretty obvious. You can't have non-violent… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It's tough to be in a relationship with a musician, because it reads sometimes as this ego and self-involvement when it's really… — David Sanborn Copy Share Image
I know people could tell incredible stories. People have been in concentration camps, or women being raped, or a man going to… — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
Proper visualization by the exercise of concentration and willpower enables us to materialize thoughts, not only as dreams or visions in the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I am very hard on myself. I know the slightest loss of concentration, the slightest mistake will be punished. I try to… — Virgil van Dijk Copy Share Image
As wonderful as they were, my parents didn't teach me anything about self-discipline, concentration, patience, or focus. If I hadn't had a… — Dick Van Dyke Copy Share Image
My mother didn't really cook. But she did make key lime pie, until the day the top of the evaporated milk container… — William of Norwich Copy Share Image
Yantras are specific designs that have a great deal of power in them, as do mantras, which are words of power. Yantras… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Most of the people in the world are just distracted and work only on the surface but if you will be deep… — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
Size of industry, concentration of market, or production notwithstanding, the consumer is best served when the businessman is completely free to pursue… — John Pugsley Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, mindfulness is the key. Mindfulness is the energy that sheds light on all things and all activities, producing the power… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Americans' lack of passion for history is well known. History may not quite be bunk, as Henry Ford suggested, but there's no… — Larry McMurtry Copy Share Image
In life we listen to other people. Listen with varying degrees of concentration and attention, right? Actors must learn to listen in… — Constantin Stanislavski Copy Share Image
Aristocracy: A combination of many powerful men, for the purpose of maintaining their own particular interests. It is consequently a concentration of… — James F. Cooper Copy Share Image
Everything that you do is a challenge. And acting is just building up your concentration and being able to listen and to… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
It's not what's happening to you now or what has happened in your past that determines who you become. Rather, it's your… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Without concentration, a business will be ordinary in every respect, because it will have no presence, no inner force, no way to… — Michael Gerber Copy Share Image
Concentration of greenhouse gases, especially CO2, have increased substantially since the beginning of the industrial revolution. And the National Academy of Sciences… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“Tengo had a gift for such work. He was a born technician, possessing both the intense concentration of a bird sailing through… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One way to have broader access to wealth is to reduce the tax on the large group and increase the tax on… — Thomas Piketty Copy Share Image
Art for the most part, is about concentration, solitude and determination. It's really not about other people's needs and assumptions. I'm not… — Richard Serra Copy Share Image
In meditation you first get sense control. And yoga will help you with the body and when the mind is steady, concentration… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious… — Franklin Pierce Copy Share Image