Use the head, use the heart, and if you can use both a tremendous revolution will happen. If you can use both… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
I feel my disease, and I feel that my want of alarm and lively affecting conviction forms its most obstinate ingredient; I… — Thomas Chalmers Copy Share Image
“Believe me, you have too many practices already. What is needed is rather a progressive inner simplification. Too many people identify spiritual… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
“Access to information can be empowering. When it overwhelms us, constantly bombarding us with data, infobesity eventually estranges us from ourselves and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“In his book Satisfy Your Soul, Bruce Demarest writes, A quieted heart is our best preparation for all this work of God.… — Michael Frost Copy Share Image
There is a difference. You watch television, you don't witness it. But, while watching television, if you start witnessing yourself watching television,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“And there is something degraded and degrading about many of our habits of attention as we shop, gossip, argue, and ruminate our… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Meditation is object-less. If you use any object, then it is not meditation; it becomes thinking. It becomes contemplation; it becomes reflection,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It is the human beings ability to perceive himself as distinct from everything around him that creates his separateness from everything and… — David Carlyle Copy Share Image
“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers, religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps. Bigger than science, bigger than religion, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Imagine a world where people were 10% happier and less reactive. Marriage, parenting, road rage, politics - all would be improved upon.… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
You probably think that being a guest in your aunt's house I would hesitate to butter you all over the front lawn… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
For better or worse, I tend to do a lot of thinking in my poems. But lately I've been trying to pay… — Jennifer Grotz Copy Share Image
“Language is not primarily informational but revelatory. The Holy Scriptures give witness to a living voice sounding variously as Father, Son and… — Eugene H. Peterson Copy Share Image
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this… — Daniel Goleman 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
“Imagination is a great force. On the path of meditation, imagination is a barrier; on the path of love, imagination is a… — Osho Copy Share Image
We mustn't reserve communing with God just for morning and evening prayers, or for weekly worship service, or for when we feel… — Susan L. Taylor Copy Share Image
So, the first thing we should introspect - are we concerned about ourselves ? All the time do we think that we… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is not just about sitting in a room encountering a mystical god in meditation or about seeing God in a sunset.… — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
What is important is that you should know reality. You should know exactly what is right and what is wrong. For that,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
“While Lou loved the raucous music, loud voices, and chaotic movement of a dinner rush, the calm of prep-work soothed her soul… — Amy E. Reichert Copy Share Image
“The mind is the only level at which any lasting change can occur—it is the soil in which we plant our hopes… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
The rosy hearth, the lamplight's narrow beam, The meditation that is rather dream, With looks that lose themselves in cherished looks; The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every morning during meditation, I prepare myself for the whole day's struggle. Holy Communion assures me that I will win the victory;… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
“Why do we call yoga a practice? The yoga poses of life—the grief, the fear, the uncertainty—rarely offer us the option of… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
All creations are one with the universe. Look at the world around you. Can you effectively separate yourself from everything else? After… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The windmill doesn’t try to control the wind or demand that it blow in another direction. It simply surrenders to the wind,… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Awareness is a choiceless consciousness. Awareness is the capacity to embrace, accept and include both joy and sadness, love and aloneness, light… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Any really good scientist is as much an artist as a scientist. All the interesting stuff is found on the edge between… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“I do not belong to any spiritual group or tradition. I am just interested in exploring what it means to live with… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
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