Contemplation in the age of Auschwitz and Dachau, Solovky and Karaganda is something darker and more fearsome than contemplation in the age… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I am a very organized person. I get up at 6:15 a.m., the kids get up at 6:45 a.m., and so I… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
You cannot grow in the integrative dance of action and contemplation without a strong tolerance for ambiguity, an ability to allow, forgive,… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Be still, and know that I am God," sings the Biblical Psalmist. This simply means that the movement of thoughts and emotions… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
God will not let me get the blessing without asking. Today I am setting my face to fast and pray for enlightenment… — Bonar Law Copy Share Image
There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in… — Kate DiCamillo Copy Share Image
The dark is a quiet place. Reflection and contemplation are the only things to do in it. Well that, and imagine the… — Tara Brown Copy Share Image
“Love. Meditation of Pure Love has only one intention, that she might always love faithfully without wishing for any reward, and the… — Margaret Porette Copy Share Image
Learn to self-conquest, persevere thus for a time, and you will perceive very clearly the advantage which you gain from it. As… — Teresa of Avila Copy Share Image
When your witnessing is ninety percent, your mind is reduced to ten percent. And when your witnessing is one hundred percent -… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“RELATIONSHIPS & THE INNER BEING The other is a mirror of our own face; the other is a mirror of our inner… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“If one's life is simple, contentment has to come. Simplicity is extremely important for happiness. Having few desires, feeling satisfied with what… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The healthy Christian is not necessarily the extrovert, ebullient Christian, but the Christian who has a sense of God's presence stamped deep… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The mind wants to land, to fixate, to hold a concept, but the only way you can be really free is by… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Reading is an act of contemplation, perhaps the only act in which we allow ourselves to merge with the consciousness of another… — David L. Ulin Copy Share Image
Now, you believe you are a material person dabbling with. But essentially, you are a spiritual being dabbling with the material world… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
So, I installed a CCTV system to tape what's going on inside my mind. Thousands of hours of drama, confusion, discussion, huge… — Marcelo Goianira Copy Share Image
One of the greatest attacks of the enemy is to make you busy, to make you hurried, to make you noisy, to… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
And the fear of not being is born in that space. But in meditation, when this is understood, the mind can enter… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There are a host of surprises among longer-term meditators, like a boost in the immune system from a day of practice, which… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of… — Dustin Moskovitz Copy Share Image
I saw more clearly than ever, that the first great and primary business to which I ought to attend every day was,… — George Muller Copy Share Image
Pythagoras was the first to introduce vegetarianism to the West. It is of profound depth for man to learn how to live… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Whether you feel that your soul is pleased by the conception or contemplation of harmonies, or that your mind is stimulated by… — RosettaBooks Copy Share Image
“One must be present, fully and deeply, in the garden of the now. In this state of presence, the ego’s chatter can… — Kevin L. Michel Copy Share Image
“Ree-" Grey barked into the icy silence. "Lax!" The word spat so unexpectedly into her ear had precisely the effect Grey must… — Mercedes Lackey Copy Share Image
Real music will help you move towards meditation, beyond the mind needs, towards spiritual needs. Real poetry will give you a glimpse… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The absolute awareness only comes when you become the Spirit. When you get your realization and you become the Spirit. When you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“When you live a Zen lifestyle, you are living in tune with whatever it is that you are doing on a day-to-day… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
“By means of personal experimentation and observation, we can discover certain simple and universal truths. The mind moves the body, and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Know the bondage and attachments from inside and from root to be free. Don't waste time on leaves of life, Awake and… — Harsh Ranga Neo Copy Share Image
Technology is neutral. You can use [it] to become frenetic and to go out of your mind. But you can also use… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Typically, awareness is only directed to the pronounced sensations of the body—the pleasurable and the painful. In yoga, over and over again,… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“It is considered as artadhyan (adverse internal state that results in hurting the self) only when the mind and the Self (Soul)… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Meditation has been a big change for me in a super-positive way. I see the result and strength and clarity - even… — Alicia Keys Copy Share Image
“It took me far too long to realize that lost years and relationships cannot be recovered, that damage done to oneself and… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit; and our wandering thoughts in prayer are but the… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
Our children are exposed to 10, 20, 30 times the number of words that our great-grandfathers were exposed to. We're exposed in… — Steven C. Hayes Copy Share Image