I think prayerful meditation, being still in a space, being still with God, I don't do that enough. It's crazy, because when… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
“Religion is like this; a prayer, a song, a flower, a white sugar ball, a chime of the brass bell, the rendering… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began… — Morton T. Kelsey Copy Share Image
“Where there is True Knowledge, there Artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“26. Kieran C. R. Fox, “Is Meditation Associated with Altered Brain Structure? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Morphometric Neuroimaging in Meditation… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana.… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
Dhyan means meditation. Meditation means awareness, watchfulness, a silent witnessing of all the processes of the mind. And the magic of watching… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“How is it that artists keep their powers of perception even in the days when life darkens?" he asked himself. Thinking about… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“While the bodies of young children are usually relaxed and flexible, if experiences of fear are continuous over the years, chronic tightening… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
“Evolution is messy. Oftentimes our brains evolve more quickly than our capacity to love. Science has unlocked many mysteries of the universe… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Every action, whether noble or immoral, is preceded by thought. That thought may be conscious or unconscious, ignorant or mindful. The only… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Help me, Lord, to remember that religion is not to be confined to the church... nor exercised only in prayer and meditation,… — Susanna Wesley Copy Share Image
You don't have to meditate. You don't have to practice self-discovery and Buddhism. You should only practice self-discovery if you really have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents,… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going,… — Huineng Copy Share Image
If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm always in the right headspace! I live pretty much in isolation, so there are really no distractions. That's not a manufactured… — Joey Jordison Copy Share Image
“A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth is a poverty-stricken… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
Adore Him(GOD), placing a garland of tears around His neck; washing His feet with tears, springing from joy at the contemplation of… — Sri Guru Granth Sahib Copy Share Image
To praise it would amount to praising myself. For the entire content of the work... coincides almost exactly with my own meditations… — Carl Friedrich Gauss Copy Share Image
The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Only when there is dharmadhyan (absence of adverse internal state of being that hurts the self and others) in the body, there… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Never expect anything from a particular meditation. Once you have gotten started, different methods get you into the stream, let the meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Meditation is like the training or practice grounds. It isn't the goal in and of itself. Many people think that they must… — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's… — Brian Wilson Copy Share Image
...learn to perceive and control your chakras; they are like seven churches within you, each holding a different aspect of the Mystery… — E. Bernard Jordan Copy Share Image
That's the quality of the Spirit that you start feeling so joyous and the joy doesn't have the duality of happiness and… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I handle my emotional pain by changing my mind-set. Exercising can exorcise emotional pain. Prayer and meditation. Visualization. Being able to talk… — Regina Taylor Copy Share Image