When you meditate properly you are able to take your mind and merge it with the cosmos. Essentially, this causes your IQ… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
As we go deeper and deeper into the world of meditation, we are able to travel along the luminous bands, just like… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Frustration is out of expectation; expectation is our projection. All kinds of love frustrate unless love is based in meditation. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The best anti-aging advice I've ever received? Drink a lot of water and have a plant-based diet. I also do mindful meditation… — Carolyn Murphy Copy Share Image
“Any time we find ourselves relying on the ideas of an absolute, frozen state of right and wrong—or fairness versus unfairness—that we… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Zen is above all a matter of personal experience. The student is asked to accept nothing the truth of which he cannot… — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration. — Walter Russell Copy Share Image
“Our visions of courage are what poet Sarah Teasdale describes as “holy thoughts that star the night.” Meditation on Freedom Awakening Courage… — Judith Orloff Copy Share Image
“Everything you think about is a meditation, and you could say that the very form of your consciousness follows what you put… — James Curcio Copy Share Image
Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure… — Satish Kumar Copy Share Image
You're always striving for a place of Zen. Or a flow state, where you kind of transcend reality and you go to… — Evan Rachel Wood Copy Share Image
“At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them,… — Franz Kafka Copy Share Image
“Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Zen is not a particular state but the normal state: silent, peaceful, unagitated. In Zazen neither intention, analysis, specific effort nor imagination… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
The soul who meditates on the Self is content to serve the Self and rests satisfied within the Self; there remains nothing… — Bhagavad Gita Copy Share Image
Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
When a person finds life hard, he needs motivation and inspiration; but if he finds life’s journey easy, then he needs meditation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
With wrong farming methods, we turn fertile land into desert. Unless we go back to organic farming and save the soil, there… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I've tried to become a more emotionally intelligent person through therapy and meditation, but I can't control the fact that some of… — Lindsay Shookus Copy Share Image
Learn to meditate, practice and don't get frustrated. It will take you years to learn to meditate perfectly. Every time you try,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in order to touch the wonders of life that are available in that… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
That's the moment of enlightenment. That is the moment that you become for the first time an unconditioned, sane, really free human… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“By emphasizing doubt rather than belief, perplexity rather than certainty, and questions rather than answers, Zen practice granted me the freedom to… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
With a practice, we can always remain alive in the present moment. With mindfulness, you can establish yourself in the present in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The advanced student of meditation takes an active part in supporting the work of their teacher. They happily work more hours or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Religion exists not because of God or for God; it is because of marriage. Marriage creates so much misery that one has… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
I felt I should have been the happiest person in the world. But I looked inside, and that happiness was only on… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“It was the study hour. Most of the monks were reading. A few were meditating, an activity that was suspiciously similar to… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
People who are drawn to meditation have had lots of incarnation in the world of experience, and we know the score. We… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Some people meditate because they want to get the larger picture on life. It could get kind of discouraging if this was… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you start meditating on your ego, on your thoughts, on your mind, you are suddenly separate, because whatsoever you meditate on,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
As you sit in this light from week to week, you will transform and grow and develop. It washes away the samskaras,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be… — Goldie Hawn Copy Share Image
