Each day when you meditate, you should devote the first few minutes of your meditation to concentration. This will develop the power… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“When artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) or raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and others) does not occur; that… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I'm not suggesting that everyone should meditate, far from it. Meditation is for very few individuals. I'm speaking of something that is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Mindfulness allows us to watch our thoughts, see how one thought leads to the next, decide if we're heading down an unhealthy… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“respond rather than react to situations, people or environment. Let go of limiting emotions such as fear, frustration and anger and start… — Avis Williams Copy Share Image
A fundamental concern for others in our individual and community lives would go a long way in making the world the better… — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
Pure faith in the benevolece of the Divine can also degenerate into destructive forms of religion like othodoxy, fundamentalism, sectarianism, fanaticism, black… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadness of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
When you sit quiet and watch yourself, many things may come to the surface. Do nothing about them, don't react to them.… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Zen enriches no one. There is no body to be found. The birds may come and circle for a while in the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Joy is our ultimate truth. Joy comes from the roots of our being. It comes from our deepest core. Everything else is on… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Meditation does not have to be long or complicated for you to receive its benefits. If you haven’t done it before, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The smell of good bread baking, like the sound of lightly flowing water, is indescribable in its evocation of innocence and delight...… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once you are absolutely thoughtlessly aware, you are one with the Divine, so much so that the Divine takes over every activity,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Kundalini cures you, she improves you, she bestows all the blissful things upon you. She takes you away from the worries of… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen has lost its zip, if you will, or its nothingness and has become ritualistic Its established in monastaries with strict codes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I enjoy load shedding in Nepal, when it allows me to witness the dancing of fireflies in the next field, and at… — Andrew James Pritchard Copy Share Image
Different schools of Zen have evolved, principally the Rinzai and Soto orders. A whole hierarchy has developed for the teaching and practice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you want to be positive, it is very easy and for that you should see where is your attention. Are you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The chakra is a doorway. These are doorways that lead you into other dimensions. But you have to focus on them to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
every time God forgives us, God is saying that God's own rules do not matter as much as the relationship that God… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“The more I meditated and practiced yoga, the more I began to experience an apparent ability to predict events, read other people,… — Lee Lipsenthal Copy Share Image
Words like meditation, karma, samskaras, they're just words. You can get into the jargon, you can speak it, but that doesn't mean… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's… — James R. Swartz Copy Share Image
Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment, in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart. By simply relaxing… — Jigdral Yeshe Dorje Copy Share Image
Meditation is the most significant because it opens the door for all other significant things: love, prayer, God, light, music, poetry. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is a journey without movement. In the external world you have to move in order to go ahead, in meditation you… — Rama Swami Copy Share Image
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Behold the difference between the Oriental and the Occidental. The former has nothing to do in this world; the latter is full… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on… — Jaime Murray Copy Share Image
Every moment is incredibly unique and fresh, and when we drop into the moment, as meditation allows us to do, we learn… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
[Students] they did the sonic meditations, I would observe them in their ensembles, and the ensembles improved incredibly. So I knew I… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I am a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Aren't we all? I teach meditation to many different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every day seems to reveal a new piece of research about meditation, or new clinical applications of mindfulness or compassion practice, or… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Zen was a reaction. Just as Buddha came into the world and spoke against the fall of Vedanta, so Buddhism lost its… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of… — Quintilian Copy Share Image
“Our thoughts are not roadblocks to our meditation, they are the divine expression of the universe and the building blocks of infinite… — davidji Copy Share Image
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