Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you deal with people, it tends to drag your energy down - if those people are in a lower auric state… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Worry is focused thinking on something negative. Meditation is doing the same thing only focusing on God's word instead of your problem. — Rick Warren Copy Share Image
“Some people spend their whole lives seeking heaven, when all they needed to do was look about them, and embrace that which… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“[S]torytelling, in ancient and modern practice, is always a contemplation of the experience of time passing. A story depends on things not… — Joan Silber Copy Share Image
The one thing that seems to be consistent through all my work that I like, and I experimented a lot, is the… — Richard Misrach Copy Share Image
“Indeed, we all know that the man who attentively contemplates a thing, who wants to see it as it is without changing… — Alexandre Kojeve Copy Share Image
“It is important to understand that, according to Kashmir Shaivism, this analysis of all phenomena into thirty six tattvas is not an… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
“To believe happiness-misery in circumstances is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self). One becomes unhappy when he loses what he likes… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“we assert that in all mammals the center of primal, constructive consciousness and activity lies in the middle front of the abdomen,… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“The door of entry into this castle is prayer and meditation. If a person does not realize Whom he is addressing, and… — Padma Aon Prakasha Copy Share Image
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
There is a common misunderstanding that during meditation the mind should never engage in processing thoughts. It is okay in meditation for… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Meditation is good for the elderly, great for adults, even greater for children, and greater still for pregnant women. So, meditate and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
In truth, it matters less what we do in practice than how we do it and why we do it. The same… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
We recognize that we cannot survive on meditation, poems and sunsets. We are restless. We have an irresistible urge to dip our… — Samuel Florman Copy Share Image
The practice of mindfulness is monitoring your mind all day and all night. It's enjoyable to just remove things that make you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mark of the Christian is the willingness to look for the Divine in the flesh of a babe in a crib,… — Fulton J. Sheen Copy Share Image
“It's a sweet thing to sit quietly in the early-morning darkness and talk to God for a while. It's amazing what you… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
We see a lot of people who decide to go out and teach meditation. They become so wrapped up in it that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I was very lucky. My neck hurt and I went to my doctor, who was kind of hip, and he said it… — Rick Rubin Copy Share Image
The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore… — Yogi Kanna Copy Share Image
“Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“What stops artadhyan (mournful contemplation hurting the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others) is dharma (Religion of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Meditation is the direct means of enjoying the greatest happiness and is the only means to quench the thirst for happiness on… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I hadn’t spent so much time in bemused contemplation of a penis since I was sixteen or so, and here I was,… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the… — Na'ama Yehuda Copy Share Image
“BE HAPPY 90% of our worries are about things that may never happen; the remaining 10% are about things that have already happened.” — Amar Ochani Copy Share Image
The truth of Zen, just a little bit of it, is what turns one's humdrum life, a life of monotonous, uninspiring commonplaceness,… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“You are like the beach at dawn when the fog comes in; each of those things is lovely on its own, but… — Deborah Blake Copy Share Image
I've always said that I think one of the best and cheapest ways to become healthier and happier is through mindfulness exercises… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
Zazen practice is the direct expression of our true nature. Strictly speaking, for a human being, there is no other practice than… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
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