I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I'll… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
People meditate themselves because they are just trying to feel better, and transcendental meditation is a natural mental technique that you can… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's been developed over thousands of years by traditions… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such… — Plotinus Copy Share Image
“But most mindfulness activities require you to tune into the present moment for just a few minutes, making these habits some of… — S.J. Scott Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness involves three fundamental processes: forming intention, paying attention, and adjusting your attitude (Shapiro, Carlson, Astin, & Freedman, 2006).” — Patricia A. Jennings Copy Share Image
Accustom yourself to serious meditation every morning. Fresh airing our souls in heaven will engender in us a purer spirit and nobler… — Stephen Charnock Copy Share Image
Selfless-giving burns away the layers of the onion. Purity and humility keep meditation and selfless-giving clear. Love radiates through the entire practice… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have… — James Vila Blake Copy Share Image
“When I'm connecting with a higher source through meditation, I am happy. Life flows. Miraculous things happen. On the other hand, when… — Laurie E. Smith Copy Share Image
“Actions born of contemplation are wiser than those made in quiet desperation. If all that's true, and I feel it is, then… — Richard Wagamese Copy Share Image
Buddhist meditation doen't necessarily mean sitting cross-legged with your eyes closed. Simply observing how your mind is responding to the sense world… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
“No amount of listening to messages can or should take the place of personal Bible study, meditation and praying. Train yourself to… — Paul Bamikole Copy Share Image
If a person sets out to practice meditation in this lifetime and they have a little bit of spiritual evolution behind them… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“You are not here to sacrifice your joy or your life. You are here to live, to be happy, and to love.… — Miguel Ruiz Copy Share Image
Before practicing meditation, we see that mountains are mountains. When we start to practice, we see that mountains are no longer mountains.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I don't teach vegetarianism; it is a by-product of meditation. Wherever meditation has happened, people have become vegetarian, always, for thousands of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I've recently started practicing japa meditation. Meditating has always been a bit difficult for me, but japa asks you to focus on… — Allison McAtee Copy Share Image
“I found in my possession the ultimate choice. Without a moment's contemplation, I chose my life. I was in a good place,… — Brooklyn James Copy Share Image
“It's not Madness, ma'am,' replied Mr. Bumble, after a few moments of deep meditation. 'It's Meat.' 'What?' exclaimed Mrs. Sowerberry. 'Meat, ma'am,… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Where there is True Knowledge, there Artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the self and… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Sports and athletics can be a path in Zen, in concordance with daily practice of zazen meditation. You need to move with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“26. Kieran C. R. Fox, “Is Meditation Associated with Altered Brain Structure? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Morphometric Neuroimaging in Meditation… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Every action, whether noble or immoral, is preceded by thought. That thought may be conscious or unconscious, ignorant or mindful. The only… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness isn’t something we practice only in the meditation hall; we also practice in the kitchen, in the garden, or when we’re… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I think prayerful meditation, being still in a space, being still with God, I don't do that enough. It's crazy, because when… — Tony Hale Copy Share Image
“Religion is like this; a prayer, a song, a flower, a white sugar ball, a chime of the brass bell, the rendering… — APORVAKALA Copy Share Image
What meditation does mean is a way for us to unlock and open the door to the kingdom of heaven. Jesus began… — Morton T. Kelsey Copy Share Image
Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It may sound lovey-dovey, but there's research showing the positive effect of meditation on parts of the brain that control emotion. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
If you've ever swum in the ocean, and you go underneath the waves, you know, you're kind of moved by the currents,… — Anderson Cooper Copy Share Image
Sit all together in meditation. Become peacefully calm and quiet, without motion, without stillness, without birth, without destruction, without coming or going,… — Huineng Copy Share Image
If the traveller can find A virtuous and wise companion Let him go with him joyfully And overcome the dangers of the… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
When you can successfully stop thought for longer periods of time, you do move into other worlds. This can also happen in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
