There is a way beyond this life and beyond death, the path of liberation. In order to be liberated, you have to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Metta sees truly that our integrity is inviolate, no matter what our life situation may be. We do not need to fear… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Many things embarrass me, but reading isn't one of them. I'm not ashamed of my slightly weird collection of prison memoirs. Nor… — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
The Unfortunate Importance of Beauty is a farcical fictional meditation on female beauty structured as a mash-up of an old episode of… — Maureen Corrigan Copy Share Image
Our thoughts ought by instinct to fly upwards from animals, men and natural objects to their creator. If created things are so… — Anthony of Padua Copy Share Image
If you meditate, you can experience the other worlds, the far-flung eternities and dimensions - and you are not stuck in any… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
...one need not, and should not, believe blindfolded in whatever is said about ascent or salvation, but should treat it like a… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The ultimate way of Being lies beyond all contradictory pairs of opposites with which our two dimensional thinking mind operates. As soon… — Anagarika Govinda Copy Share Image
Over time, as the thinking mind begins to settle [through the practice of meditation], we’ll start to see our patterns and habits… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Any individual or society that fails to honor or provide the opportunity for women to fully exert their power can never truly… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Keep the remembrance of your real nature alive, even while working, and avoid haste which causes you to forget. Be deliberate. Practice… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Patañjali describes the fluctuations, modifications and modulations of thought which disturb the consciousness, and then sets out the various disciplines by which… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“5. Zazen, or the Sitting in Meditation. Habit comes out of practice, and forms character by degrees, and eventually works out destiny.… — Kaiten Nukariya 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
“While meditating, we are cleaning up clutter in the backyard of our mind, triggering a shift in our thinking, and reshaping a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
With Zen we do it more through slight of hand, a very subtle and delicate shift in consciousness, which shifts the world.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In my weightlifting I am trying to show that if you pray and meditate, you can bring to the fore your inner… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“After long reflection in solitude and meditation, I suddenly had the idea, during the year 1923, that the discovery made by Einstein… — Louis de Broglie Copy Share Image
“Even when you practice zazen alone, without a teacher, I think you will find some way to tell whether your practice is… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
In this world people love to talk and be active. Everyone wants to express their opinion. Listen in meditation, not to your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The simplest aspect of self-enquiry is to just hold onto the sense I AM, the sense of Being. Keep the sense of… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats. Even ducks have taught me important spiritual lessons. Just watching… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
I take it so seriously as far as meditation, notes, visualization, preparation, everything. I take it a lot more serious than a… — Jon Jones Copy Share Image
You might have extensive bouts of thinking exceedingly nasty thoughts, but because you are relating to those thoughts with mindfulness and compassion,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Before embarking on important undertakings sit quietly calm your senses and thoughts and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“8. Zen is not Nihilistic. Zen judged from ancient Zen masters' aphorisms may seem, at the first sight, to be idealistic in… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
I now make meditation a daily part of my life. Ideally, I would find 20 minutes, twice a day, to sit and… — Elizabeth Vargas Copy Share Image
“Art requires contemplation that focuses attention on the viewer developing a relationship with the work of art, not merely passively receiving a… — Daniel A. Siedell Copy Share Image
About once a week I think about going and living in a cave and meditating instead. I think that would be a… — Simon Amstell Copy Share Image
Meditation is the use of symbols, not abstractions. A symbol is something alive. It is a hyphen between one reality and another. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we're someone else, disrupting the delusion that we're… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
There are six chakras or energy vortexes that lie along that tube. There is a seventh chakra located several inches above the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Modern man is a hard driven nomad without any stability, not (as the Bible has it) a wanderer or a pilgrim, but… — Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn Copy Share Image
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