“Just as the light bulb allows the electricity within it the opportunity to express its power, the body allows prana—life energy—to express… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
You can do yoga and be thinking about going shopping. The goal is kind of like meditation, is to be totally present… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
We meditate alone but live our lives with other people; a gap is inevitable. If our path is to lead to less… — Greg Kramer Copy Share Image
Thinking is the natural activity of the mind. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. Meditation is simply a process of resting… — Eric Swanson Copy Share Image
It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation means undoing what the society has done to you. It has reduced you to a machine; you have to de-automatise yourself,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Watching them opens your inner being. Just watching them opens your inner eye and that is the real eye; the outside eyes… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Now Art, used collectively for painting, sculpture, architecture and music, is the mediatress between, and reconciler of, nature and man. It is,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
There is one thing that, when cultivated and regularly practiced, leads to deep spiritual intention, to peace, to mindfulness and clear comprehension,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not… — Marguerite Yourcenar Copy Share Image
One day I was meditating on a cliff overlooking the ocean in Southern California and I was absorbed in a state of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Buddhists sharply distinguished Zazen from Yoga, and have the method peculiar to themselves. Kei-zan[FN#244] describes the method to the following effect: 'Secure… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
As an enlightened teacher of Buddhism, I'd like to welcome you to the pathway to enlightenment. I'd like to encourage you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
No place affords a more striking conviction of the vanity of human hopes than a public library; for who can see the… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
In its outward manifestation, meditation appears to involve either stopping, by parking the body in a stillness that suspends activity, or giving… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
I felt so liberated when I first saw Charles Mee’s 'The Glory of the World' at BAM play, because for me this… — Will Oldham Copy Share Image
Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
So in Sahasrara, you must know what powers are there. There are one thousand powers, one thousand powers within you which are… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“I have always felt deep within myself that I do not trust that I am already OK as I am, and that… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“This is a gradual process and takes time and patience. With dedicated practice, peace and happiness can become our baseline. The more… — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
Transcendental meditation is one particular form of mantra meditation that allows your mind to experience progressively abstract fields of awareness. And ultimately… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
When I go visit my brother monks in Japan and sit down with other Zen Masters, they look at my crazy clothes… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If we lose our money while traveling, think how frantically we search for it! In the same way, if we are unable… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“I stood for a second staring at this imbecile, feeling like a burned-out sentinel watching the meteor streak toward the planet, bracing… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
“We live surrounded by God's pattern but we aren't high enough to see it. You can elevate yourself, of course. That's the… — Victor J. Banis Copy Share Image
“Pain is what we get when we are consumed by the fire of anger. We need to balance that with love. Meditation… — Robin Sacredfire Copy Share Image
“When relationships become tempestuous, and our hearts cannot endure the cracks of emotional blizzards, we must retreat for a while into the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid? Do we owe an apology?… — Bill Wilson Copy Share Image
To me, bringing mindfulness-bas ed practices to students, teachers and parents is some of the most important work we can be doing.… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
Don't hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the… — Bankei Yotaku Copy Share Image
I want to make meditation an absolute for all students, whatever the subject they may be studying, so their awareness becomes more… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You should get completely detached about everything and you will enjoy, just enjoy. But in that also, one has to judge. Are… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“This ‘Dada’ gives two paths. To those who find happiness in the worldly life, he gives the path of dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation/to… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Miss the present and you live in boredom. BE in the present and you will be surprised that there is no boredom… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our past cannot be changed, and to be preoccupied with it is inefficient in time and effort. Likewise, by fretting over the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say “Come… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
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