[Mindfulness] is not concerned with anything transcendent or divine. It serves as an antidote to theism, a cure for sentimental piety, a… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
When we meditate and we are able to stop thought, we get a sense of being beyond the body. Our consciousness expands… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Sometimes you won't feel pleasant during a meditation session; it seems like an uphill run. But when you get to the top,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yoga is a way to produce a chemistry of blissfulness. Once you are blissful by your own nature, you can deal with… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Speak what I have to be grateful for when I get up and when I lie down to sleep. Meditation and prayer.… — Regina Taylor Copy Share Image
If I'm going to meditate, there is a little church up in Montecito, California. It's an old Spanish mission, actually. I find… — Michael Keaton Copy Share Image
In Old Zen, the Zen Master would do literally anything to break down the concept of what the study was. He would… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your technology is the inner practice of meditation, which will stimulate the link between your brain and ignite your innate desire to… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“In situations where I feel unclear or I do not know what to say or do, I turn my attention within myself.… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Whatever actions that are seen in this world, are the discharging of karma that has previously been charged. A person has nothing… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Whether you find it through mediation or sighing over tea or just turning all your devices off for five minutes, listening is… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“In mindfulness practice, wise discernment is a tool that can help us in boundary setting. Mindfulness may open the doors of perception,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If contemplation of other people's pain just increases distress, then I think we should see it in another way. If we don't… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The ultimate expression of meditation comes when we can feel all the pains of the world, experience them with mindfulness and equanimity… — Shinzen Young Copy Share Image
“When you can accept discomfort, doing so allows a balance of mind. That surrender, that letting go of wanting anything to be… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
I teach meditation and the pathway to enlightenment because I know that there are other people who, like i did a long… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I meditate every day for between ten to twenty minutes. Every morning, I work out and go to the gym for an… — John Feldmann Copy Share Image
“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference… — Patanjali Copy Share Image
For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
But I deal with this meditating and by understanding I've been put on the planet to serve humanity. I have to remind… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
The spirit world is able to get through to you easily when your mind is still and clear. Meditation is often referred… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
It's hard to keep the energy going sometimes, that's why I like to go with a group of people who are meditating.… — Donna Karan Copy Share Image
When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The key aspect to meditating is that you close your eyes and engage in thoughts that are positive, uplifting, and create feelings… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
Pray with a pure heart and pray from where you are. God will answer your prayers. There is no need to abandon… — Shri Radhe Maa Copy Share Image
Along with my spiritual practices of meditation, affirmative prayer, and visioning, what catalyzes my sense of aliveness is putting those practices into… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
Had a powerful meditation just now - caused an earthquake in Southern California. ...Was meditating on Shiva mantra & earth began to… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Buddhify has over 80 custom guided audio meditation tracks on various topics. Omvana, with dozens of guided meditations by very famous authors,… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you meditate you can stand back from your desire. When you silence the mind and there is stillness, only then can… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
The bamboo is very much loved by the Zen poets for its tremendous quality of being hollow. Out of this hollowness of… — OSHO Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“In his talk, Suzuki Roshi says that meditation and the whole process of finding your own true nature is one continuous mistake,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Just as you wouldn't leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn't start the day without at least 10 minutes of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
It is one of the main teachings of the profound traditional wisdom of India, that the Primordial Mother is the origin of… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that… — James Allen Copy Share Image
To meditate, you need to feel, and feeling is a lost art. You need to feel the stillness of existence and also… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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