I learned and it was exactly what I needed [Transcendental Meditation]. The thing that blew me away was that it was the… — Cameron Diaz Copy Share Image
“One must be present, fully and deeply, in the garden of the now. In this state of presence, the ego’s chatter can… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“The curtain of worldly desire must be ripped in half and I must look into my own soul and overcome the pit… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Scientific discovery always arises out of meditation, not out of mind. And whenever something comes from the mind, it is not science… — Osho Copy Share Image
In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses.… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[I]t is not hasty reading--but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul.… — Thomas Brooks Copy Share Image
Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In my Deep Listening class at RPI, I always do an hour of energy exercises to start with. Then we do a… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
“I encourage you to make a similar commitment to spending time alone with God each day for prayer and meditation. Biblical meditation… — Henri J.M. Nouwen Copy Share Image
With such a small life, with such a small energy source, it is simply stupid to waste it in sadness, in anger,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So the Buddha is presenting awakening not as a single mystical experience that may come upon us at some meditation, some private… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I have a lot to offer in terms of an authoritative voice on a lot of political issue.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is not interested… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Meditation is simply a strange surgical method which cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices… — Jean Arp Copy Share Image
“I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle… — Fyodor Dostoevsky 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
“It’s important that meditation is not seen as something that only happens when you are seated in a quiet place. Otherwise spirituality… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“If believed that life is a hologram; find the awe in its design. If believed that life is strange; find the awe… — Gillian Duce Copy Share Image
When a caterpillar spins its cocoon, it goes through a transformative process and then emerges as a butterfly. Similarly, when we go… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities.… — Barbara Hurd Copy Share Image
Most persons are so absorbed in the contemplation of the outside world that they are wholly oblivious to what is passing on… — Nikola Tesla Copy Share Image
Children, daily practice of yoga or sun salutations (surya-namaskara) is very good for health and for spiritual practice. Lack of proper exercise… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
It was about finding the sacred within myself, my center, my peaceful core. We each have a sacred space within us, a… — Christopher Penczak Copy Share Image
An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis… — Martine Batchelor Copy Share Image
You are transmitters. Everywhere you are sitting in meditation you are transmitting vibrations, do you know that ? At that time if… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“The result of the discharging of karma tagged with shukladhyan (Internal state that renders the constant awareness of ‘I am pure Soul’)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I am Shiva-this is the great meditation of the yogis in the Himalayas...Hea ven and hell are within us, and all the… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
There is a place for analysis, but it is apt to be quite fatal in prayer and meditation. Do not dissect the… — Emmet Fox Copy Share Image
Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image