The only times that we can have what we long for are those moments when we stop grasping for it. At such… — Sheldon B. Kopp Copy Share Image
[T]he period between four and six in the morning is called the Brahmamuhurta, the Brahmic time, or divine period, and is a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“But this morning in meditation, after I heard the lion roar YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW STRONG MY LOVE IS, I came… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you determine your course With force or speed, You miss the way of the dharma. Quietly consider What is right and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Meditation is not about getting rid of all your thoughts; it’s learning not to get so lost in them that you forget… — Kelly McGonigal Copy Share Image
As you breathe focus on your body parts, beginning with your scalp, your forehead and between your eyes, as you breathe out… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Focus your attention around the naval area, feel that spot. Visualize it. Do whatever it takes. When thoughts come in and out… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When one hears the word meditation, it conjures an image of Maharishi Yoga talking about finding a mantra and striving for nirvana.… — E.W. Jackson Copy Share Image
Do not base your life on the likings and dislikings or whims of others. What you are in life - whether you… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
Your enlightenment is perfect only when silence has come to be a celebration. Hence my insistence that after you meditate you must… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
If life is a gift then all that belongs to life is going to be a gift. Happiness, love, meditation - all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“James Baraz in his book Awakening Joy, “Mindfulness is simply being aware of what is happening right now without wishing it were… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
Meditation is the art of cleaning your mirror from all the dust that the society, the religion, the educational system has poured… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The paintings are more about physicality and gesture than meditation. I'd compare it to playing scales on the Cello - each sound… — Stephen Beal Copy Share Image
“If you are free from memory and imagination, you will always be meditative. If you release yourself from these, meditation is just… — Sadhguru Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness puts you in charge of where you place your attention. Then, when you are less preoccupied with concerns and worries, you… — Carmel Sheridan Copy Share Image
“Just as you can never squeeze water out of the water, you can never squeeze the good out of goodness: You simply… — Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana, Ph.D, MBA Copy Share Image
In the advanced practice, the relationship between the Zen master and the student becomes very terse. The Zen master will expect things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Like the tightly closed eyelids of a child trying to escape the reprimand of a parent, there is a part of the… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
When I say that Zen is life, I mean that Zen is not to be confined within conceptualization, that Zen is what… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
When pain is accepted for what it is, a lesson and a warning, and deeply looked into and heeded, the separation between… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“For example, an ENFP who recognizes that they are stuck in a loop may schedule one hour per day for yoga, meditation… — Heidi Priebe Copy Share Image
I do an early morning meditation from 4am to 6am, a yoga class from 6am to 7am and then set an intention… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“It is not that mindfulness is the “answer” to all life’s problems. Rather, it is that all life’s problems can be seen… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
An unreflective mind is a poor roof. Passion, like the rain, floods the house. But if the roof is strong, there is… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The life of meditation and religious study is absolutely no guarantee of peak moments. Most people involved in religious study and meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A true leader leads for the sake of love and his knowledge of the path, a bad leader redirects his followers to… — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
There are seven primary chakras located in the subtle physical body, the body of light and energy that is our awareness and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think… — Jeff Kober Copy Share Image
The cosmos is a complex amalgamation of sounds. One of the key sounds through which you can experience the cosmic nature of… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I find the world pretty overwhelming, so I'm getting into meditation and doing lots of yoga. And I love my garden, and… — Bat for Lashes Copy Share Image
Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed.… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
Brahman is beyond mind and speech, beyond concentration and meditation, beyond the knower, the known and knowledge, beyond even the conception of… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Every place is a place to practice. Every time is a time to practice. Zen is concerned with the thought we have… — Bill Porter Copy Share Image
“Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
So thoughtless awareness is the first beautiful state you have to achieve. That will give you peace and a witness state to… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
A mind which has once imbibed a taste for scientific enquiry, and has learnt the habit of applying its principles readily to… — John Herschel Copy Share Image