“A single word can brighten the face of one who knows the value of words. Ripened in silence, a single word acquires… — Yunus Emre Copy Share Image
“Ordinary man to Zen Master Ikkyu: ‘‘Master, please write the maxims exemplifying the highest wisdom.’’ Ikkyu immediately writes the ideogram ‘‘Attention,’’ with… — James H. Austin Copy Share Image
“It may seem humble to belittle yourself, but it is every bit as arrogant as grandiosity. Just as it is impossible to… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized… — Alan Wilson Watts Copy Share Image
Supposing the Mother Earth was very hot like the sun, there would have been no growth, or it was cold like moon,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
There exist certain individuals who are, by nature, given purely to contemplation and are utterly unsuited to action, and who, nevertheless, under… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Deep in the soul, below pain, below all the distraction of life, is a silence vast and grand - an infinite ocean… — Richard Maurice Bucke Copy Share Image
All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
In excited conversation we have glimpses of the universe, hints of power native to the soul, far-darting lights and shadows of an… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Zen comes closer to science than any other religion for the simple reason that it does not require any faith. It requires… — OSHO Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from… — Moby Copy Share Image
What is important is that you should know reality. You should know exactly what is right and what is wrong. For that,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Today it may seem that your anger is very strong, how can meditation break it? But it breaks - it has always… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
With such a small life, with such a small energy source, it is simply stupid to waste it in sadness, in anger,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
He who studies it [Nature] has continually the exquisite pleasure of discerning or half discerning and divining laws; regularities glimmer through an… — John Robert Seeley Copy Share Image
“Given the choice, most children would have ice cream for dinner. Similarly, yogis prefer the highs of yoga, the so-called “good practice.”… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Going through the motions might get the job done, but the change we seek cannot be defined by a checkmark on some… — Marta Mrotek Copy Share Image
One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Yoga has had a profound effect on my songs and performances. I don't meditate in the traditional style of sitting and doing… — Jason Mraz Copy Share Image
The best or the weirdest thinking is most likely to have been all imagined or said in the past. So make use… — Anuj Somany Copy Share Image
In Zen Buddhism, "The Great Cessation" is a term that points to the abandoning of the effort to define one's self by… — Mike Scheidt Copy Share Image
The fruit does not come from the outside, the fruit is created within you. Whatever you do, you develop receptivity for it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Thus, Pawo Rinpoche says, both Nagarjuna's and Asanga's traditions agree that the unity of perfect meditative stability and knowledge is to rest… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
“In the beginning of running and of meditation, one of the biggest obstacles is laziness. One kind of laziness is basic slothfulness,… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“So, you’re a beginner in meditation? Awesome! Welcome to the calm club. Think of meditation as a mental workout—no sweat, just serenity.… — Life is Positive Copy Share Image
Swimming is probably the ultimate of burnout sports. It's ironic because millions of people who swim as their regular exercise love the… — Diana Nyad Copy Share Image
“Eternity is with us, inviting our contemplation perpetually, but we are too frightened, lazy, and suspicious to respond; too arrogant to still… — evelyn underhill Copy Share Image
“And thinking in itself deals with that which is best in itself, and that which is thinking in the fullest sense with… — Aristotle Metaphysics 1072b1830 Copy Share Image
One receives as reward for much ennui, despondency, boredom -such as a solitude without friends, books, duties, passions must bring with it… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
But there was no hiding from Conscience. Not in new homes and new cars. In travel. In meditation or frantic activity. In… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
“Against The Stream is more than just another book about meditation. It is a manifesto and field guide for the front lines… — Noah Levine Copy Share Image
“With mindfulness you can see the real owner of things. Do you think this is your world, your body? It is the… — Achaan Chah Copy Share Image
In looking for my mind, I discovered that it seems to be in many different places. Sometimes it is drinking a glass… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“But sitting is not something that we do for a year or two with the idea of mastering it. Sitting is something… — Charlotte Joko Beck Copy Share Image
People do not believe that there is something like Sahaja Yoga, that there is a power in every human being which is… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Do you know that the words meditation and medicine come from the same root? Meditation is a kind of medicine; its use… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The Wanderer will stop when they recognize the activities of the mind and refuse to follow it any longer. The Wanderer realizes… — Frank M. Wanderer Copy Share Image
Meditation did not relieve me of my anxiety so much as flesh it out. It took my anxious response to the world,… — Mark Epstein Copy Share Image
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