The key to creating the mental space before responding is mindfulness. Mindfulness is a way of being present: paying attention to and… — Elizabeth Thornton Copy Share Image
What is understanding? -- understanding is pure intelligence. That pure intelligence is originally yours; you are born with it. Nobody can give… — OSHO Copy Share Image
Zen, like life, defies exact definition, but its essence is the experience, moment by moment, of our own existence -- a natural,… — David Fontana Copy Share Image
Zen is the enemy of analysis, the friend of intuition. The Zen artist understands the ends of his art intuitively, and the… — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
“Viewed from the Taoist paradigm, the utter emptiness of space is a state known as 'extreme yin'. Taoist texts state; 'When yin… — Daniel Reid Copy Share Image
Everybody should do in their lifetime, sometime, two things. One is to consider death...to observe skulls and skeletons and to wonder what… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You can just imagine if everyone on earth did have one day where we just put all our minds together regardless where… — Bob Marley Copy Share Image
“The experience of art is best understood not from the perspective of "reading" or "decoding" but in contemplation and communion, metaphors that… — Daniel A. Siedell Copy Share Image
Meditation is not concentration. It is simple awareness. You simply relax and watch the breathing. In that watching, nothing is excluded. The… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“I have always found a natural relationship between running and meditation. Running can be a support for meditation, and meditation can be… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“Consciousness, for instance, is infinitely superior to twice two makes four. Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
[Thich Nhat Hanh] the one that revolutionized Buddhism. Instead of being monks just engaged in meditation, it was active Buddhism. You went… — Sandra Cisneros Copy Share Image
In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years I did nothing else. Every holiday I went to courses.… — Peter Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“The best gift of meditation, from my perspective, is that I've been introduced to the Spirit of the Universe by experiencing it… — Alcoholics Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Occasionally I looked at the sky, where the stars were fading and the pink light of the morning was beginning to spread… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“If we worship another, then we remain in duality. We have not fully entered the path within. Through awareness, we learn to… — Robert Cosmar Copy Share Image
“I was born into this torrid world a degenerate, eternally condemned a vessel of belligerency, destined to one day end. But despite… — Evan Guerra Copy Share Image
In samadhi, in the highest form of meditation, the same thing happens: the mind stops functioning... but you are conscious. That is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen, on the other hand, is not so dogmatically sterile, though there are certainly traces and more than traces of this austerity.… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
In true meditation the emphasis is on being awareness; not on being aware of objects, but on resting as primordial awareness itself.… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
Happiness is always possible - the only thing that really holds you back is your mind. You have probably already noticed that… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
Realizing that our minds control our bodies while our bodies reflect our minds amounts to understanding the most fundamental aspects of ourselves.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“We truly help others working on ourselves. When it comes from the knowledge that the only power we have is over our… — Raphael Zernoff Copy Share Image
“it is always recommended that you meditate every day, and preferably in the same place and at the same time. This may… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
“After I nodded, she continued. “We can no longer express with words our emotional states, our revelations, our transformations. Words fail. We… — Dielle Ciesco Copy Share Image
“I WANT EVERYONE to understand that no book and no doctor is a substitute for one’s own sensitive contemplation and careful observations.… — Sandra Joseph Copy Share Image
“I didn’t share his optimism. I’d already tried Western medicine, Eastern medicine, and everything in between. I tried different doctors, no doctors,… — Guideposts Copy Share Image
Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“I believe that the infinite and mysterious charm that lies in the contemplation of a moving vessel is caused, firstly, by the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
“8. Zazen and the Forgetting of Self. Zazen is a most effectual means of destroying selfishness, the root of all Sin, folly,… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
One man has discovered that by running there is no need to meditate, just by running meditation happens. He must be absolutely… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
All creativity is a deep suffering, unless your creativity does not come out of the mind, but out of meditation. When it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Yoga and meditation not only give us the ability to enjoy the beautiful moments in life, but also the ability to fully… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Leave those vain moralists, my friend, and return to the depth of your soul: that is where you will always rediscover the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
I'm not an ascetic and please don't use the word zen, which is so lightly bandied about these days. Being zen .… — Pierre Berge Copy Share Image
I don't want to be looking inside my ego, my stuff, my achievements, my me, me, me, me, I hate that stuff.… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is attentiveness, moment to moment. What's happening right now and what's coming up in me in response to what's happening right… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
“Healing is the way of the heart. This book is an invitation to open our heart. Healing is a love affair with… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Most change starts with the simple process of something outside of us altering something inside of us. If you begin the inward… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
Meditation is not of the body, not of the mind, not of the soul. Meditation simply means your body, your mind, your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image