Meditation is the short path to happiness. Meditation takes you beyond the desire-aversion operating system that offers very limited happiness and a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In our world, in our pre-World War III condition, meditation is considered a cult activity and people who practice self-discovery are actually… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“There’s no doubt that meditation training has allowed some people to become essentially indifferent to what otherwise would have been unbearable pain.” — Robert Wright Copy Share Image
I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
I don't think I can put my finger exactly on when remission occurred, because from that moment on, I left Western medicine… — Brad Willis Copy Share Image
“My religion: Very seldom do I feel a need for the presence of God. I don't pray and I don't know how… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Why shouldn't you strengthen your own vibrations through fellowship with people seeking Self-realization, and by group meditation with them? This practice will… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Each moment of zazen is equally wholeness of practice, equally wholeness of realization. This is not only practice while sitting, it is… — Dogen Copy Share Image
I don't feel like I have a lot to offer in terms of an authoritative voice on a lot of political issue.… — Max Lucado Copy Share Image
“Given the stress that young people are under in our society, mindfulness training is not an optional add-on to improve the learning… — Eline Snel Copy Share Image
Meditation is not the pursuit of pleasure and the search for happiness. Meditation, on the contrary, is a state of mind in… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
If you want to do Vipassana, or any silent meditation, Dynamic Meditation becomes absolutely essential, because Christianity having poisoned your mind, that… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not… — John Main Copy Share Image
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
I go into a meditative state but I don't follow a path that people who meditate take, like sitting in a room… — Benoit Lecomte Copy Share Image
For a prayer oriented religion the concept of a personal God is needed - to relate to. For meditation-oriented religions God is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful, you will recognize that what… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Before I was on medication, the mania was so bad that I couldn't concentrate, so although I'd feel very creative, I could… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
I've been more or less vegetarian for about 40 years. Health diet really helps. I do meditation every day, and either yoga… — John McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Psychoanalysis and Zen, in my private psychic geometry, are equal to nicotine. They are anti-existential. Nicotine quarantines one out of existence. — Norman Mailer Copy Share Image
Even after only several weeks of practicing meditation, you will begin to have more energy and be a little bit happier. Eventually,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“she had never known who she was at all, except sometimes for a moment in meditation, when her I am became It… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“I’m like a praying mantis, except not so devout. And I make love like a monk in meditation, which can often be… — Jarod Kintz Copy Share Image
Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You have to develop that peace of mind within yourself by which you can become the witness of yourself first. You should… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the… — Kathleen McDonald Copy Share Image
Your ability to still your mind through the process of meditation and inner reflection and outer change brings a stillness to the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Who do you think of first in the morning? Good manipulators do it in the dream plane. The morning practice of meditation… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but… — Gabriel Garcia Marquez Copy Share Image
How do you know you were in samadhi? You know when your awareness returns to the plane of self and ideation that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
