Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“One has to know what it is to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Trees are good for contemplation. Plato and Aristotle did their best thinking in the groves of olives and figs around Athens, and… — Colin Tudge Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness exercises produce literal changes in the brain’s connections, significantly affecting how well a person interacts with other people and adapts to… — Daniel J. Siegel Copy Share Image
When meditation makes you realize that you have so many limitations of your own and they are all created by you, the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“The fruit of mindfulness practice is the realization that peace and joy are available within us and around us, right here and… — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The virtue of art lies in detachment, in sequestering one object from the embarrassing variety. Until one thing comes out from theconnection… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I was very neurotic as a kid, but I also used to pray to God as a young kid in school. It… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
“It’s like when you’re flying in an airplane. Whenever severe turbulence comes along, the seatbelt keeps you from getting thrown around the… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Essentially Satori is a sudden experience, and it is often described as a "turning over" of the mind, just as a pair… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“As it is the sister of reading, so it is the mother of prayer. Though a man's heart be much indisposed to… — William Bridge Copy Share Image
If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
Meditation is one of the rare occasions when we're not doing anything. Otherwise, we're always doing something, we're always thinking something, we're… — Dzongsar Jamyang Khyentse Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“What was really needed was a fundamental change in our attitude toward life. We had to learn ourselves and, furthermore, we had… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“If we suffer from dependent happiness, we are caught up in a vicious circle of expectation and deception. Constantly seeking more and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
We could become quite satisfied with ourselves because we are sitting in meditation and are endeavoring to practice the spiritual path. Such… — Ayya Khema Copy Share Image
“A study funded by the National Institutes of Health showed a 23 percent decrease in mortality in people who meditated versus those… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“The problem is not the unhappiness and disappointment you feel at harvest time; the problem is the seeds you planted last spring.” — Darren Main Copy Share Image
If I have observed anything by experience, it is this: a man may take the measure of his growth and decay in… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“Breath puts a sliver of light between impact and reflex. That’s the endgame of all that meditation-breathing stuff: interrupting knee-jerk impulsivity.” — Sarah Hays Coomer Copy Share Image
Submit to a daily practice. Your loyalty to that is a ring at the door. Keep knocking, and the joy inside will… — Rumi Copy Share Image
The kundalini is raised or brought down. It can be done in several different ways, and as it moves to the different… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Focus on the heart center and feel love. There is a flower there, but it's like a rose folded up. As you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness isn’t inherently Eastern, just as electricity isn’t inherently Western. Mindfulness is a quality of presence that’s innate in all human beings.” — Shamash Alidina Copy Share Image
Yoga means union of the individual mind with universal mind, so meditation is considered the essence of yoga. The transformation of the… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Facts of experience are valued in Zen more than representations, symbols, and concepts-that is to say, substance is everything in Zen and… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to… — Natalie Wright Copy Share Image
Salvakalpa samadhi is like a sea of perfect light; nirvikalpa samadhi is no light, no darkness, no way to describe it. Absorption… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I meditate twice a day. I meditate two hours every day. I spend at least an hour working out. So that's three… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Taking a 10-minute meditation break is something you can do anywhere in your office, and it's so easy - you're not at… — Mandy Ingber Copy Share Image
I have often discussed the Four Noble Truths and the Eightfold Path in talks I have given about meditation. But, since I… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you don't invest your life in what you really care for, your life will be wasted. You will not fly -… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You need energy and life force to see and feel what you need to do. Otherwise you are in a dark room… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
“... If there are twenty identical doors in the corridor and you need somebody to enter one of them, what would you… — Anatoliy Obraztsov Copy Share Image
We have to get awakened to the fact that in recent decades, great destruction has been caused to our moral values as… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
In their meditations, the high priests and priestesses of Atlantis had seen that the Atlantean civilization was going to end cataclysmically. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
