“I guess Zen is a day like this when you are part of the air and remember things” — Stephen Chbosky Copy Share Image
...there is an intense delight in abandoning faulty states of mind and in cultivating helpful ones in meditation. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Zen was an attempt to get back to the purest teachings of the Buddha -enlightenment without strings. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The first recipe for happiness is: Avoid too lengthy meditation to the past. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
“Visiting the sick' is an orgasm of superiority in the contemplation of our neighbor's helplessness” — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
One hour of meditation on the work of the creator is better than seventy years of prayer. — Prophet Muhammad Copy Share Image
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing,… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Real meditation is not done by us. It is done by our Inner Pilot, the Supreme, who is constantly meditating in and… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The individual exists only in your imagination. It is just an illusion. When the Atma is one without a second, when the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Aum is the most powerful of all mantras. It is good to chant Aum seven or more times before and after each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's… — Frederick Lenz 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
I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“In Japan, a number of time-honored everyday activities (such as making tea, arranging flowers, and writing) have traditionally been deeply examined by… — H.E. Davey 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
Try the meditation of the trail, just walk along looking at the trail at your feet and don't look about and just… — Christopher McDougall Copy Share Image
“When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
The patient man is merry indeed… The jailers that watch him are but his pages of honour, and his very dungeon but… — Thomas Adams Copy Share Image
“Experience shows that if a sufficiently deep level--not necessarily the deepest level but one that corresponds to what the yogis call savikalpa… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
