Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“However, it should in no way be associated with that great body of factual information relating to orthodox Zen Buddhist practice. It’s… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
The different techniques will place you in touch with different fields of auric empowerment, creating a balanced development of your practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“To him who feels himself preordained to contemplation and not to belief, all believers are too noisy and obtrusive; he guards against… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Meditation is one of the most therapeutic things that one can do for the body and mind. Specifically, studies demonstrate a reduction… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
Meditation is like the moon: it transforms the energy of lust into love, anger into compassion, greed into sharing, aggressiveness into receptivity,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Tantra is for the advanced spiritual practitioner who is ready to push aside spiritual practice in the name of spiritual practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Therefore it is to a practical mysticism that the practical man is here invited: to a training of his latent faculties, a… — Evelyn Underhill Copy Share Image
“The deeper he penetrates into this inner being, the more will he feel inclined to keep the development quite secret. It is… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Through discussions, reading, contemplation, and practice I've come to recognize the importance of subtle feelings and symbols. By paying attention to subtle… — Mark Ireland Copy Share Image
Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
“Frank Jude Boccio, author of Mindfulness Yoga, to think about as he leaves the session: “We bitch about our difficulties along the… — Esther Perel 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
“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
Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place… — H. E Davey Copy Share Image
Just so we're clear, I'm not zen by any stretch of the imagination. However, what I've read about change being the only… — Patrick Fabian Copy Share Image
Listening to radio was like group meditation or a moment of silence in church. You can't get the same effect with TV… — Jackson Beck Copy Share Image
“Anything you do to prevent inauspicious contemplation (durdhyan, to hurt others by mind,body,speech,etc.) is dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation, to not hurt anyone, to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
The habit of spending nearly every waking moment lost in thought leaves us at the mercy of whatever our thoughts happen to… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Nowadays, the practice of yoga stops with just asanas. Very few even attempt dharana and dhyana (deeper meditation) with seriousness. There is… — Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Copy Share Image
Some people, of course, say they're practicing tantra. There are a lot of books on tantric sexual practice in local bookstores. These… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Seeing the Way is like going into a dark room with a torch; the darkness instantly departs, while the light alone remains.… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The goal of the Transcendental Meditation technique is the state of enlightenment. This means we experience that inner calmness, that quiet state… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before… — Elle Macpherson Copy Share Image
I have written the little work that follows . . . in the role of one who strives to raise his mind… — Anselm of Canterbury Copy Share Image
Every heart has a divine intelligence and natural guidance system. With every prayer, every meditation and every thought of love, we tune… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“Meditation is not really something that you define. It is something that you practice on a regular basis, and the only way… — Sarah Rowland Copy Share Image
How can you work on letting your thoughts go and getting synchronized into the moment and questioning your wild imagination. But I… — Anne Waldman Copy Share Image
Staying cooped up in one place is frustrating and I try to keep myself occupied - with yoga, meditation, cooking, reading, watching… — Shriya Saran Copy Share Image
Sahaja samadhi means that you have just gone back and forth so many times that there is no back and forth. All… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I run; that's sort of my meditation. I've been to therapy in the past when I've had crisis moments in my life;… — Natalie Dormer Copy Share Image
To meditate is to be aware of what is going on - in our bodies, our feelings our minds, and in the… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
It is necessary to go through all the daily tasks and bring perfection to them, to learn to be perfect in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Total relaxation is the ultimate. That's the moment when one becomes a buddha. That is the moment of realization, enlightenment, christ-consciousness. You… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think Dogen can be a very good introduction for people who want to meditate in whatever way, whether it's yoga, qigong,… — Kazuaki Tanahashi Copy Share Image
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