“Meditation led to decreased density of the amygdala, a physical change that was correlated with subjects’ self-reported stress levels—as their amygdalae got… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
If you're impatient while waiting for the bus, tell yourself you're doing 'Bus waiting meditation.' If you're standing in a slow line… — Gretchen Rubin Copy Share Image
“Whenever one starts meditating, the mind becomes rebellious. It starts all types of arguments: “What are you doing, why are you wasting… — Osho Copy Share Image
In my case what happened is that within about two weeks of beginning meditation, the anger already started to go away. My… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
“it did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
Meditation means you don't have anything, any object to think about. You are just in a state of absolute aloneness. You don't… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“To witness your life—the highs and lows, the times of chaos, and the periods of order—without trying to control or manipulate—is the… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
Innocence is the way you really give fun to others, create the fun part of it. The fun is created only through… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices. They tend to respond automatically, blindly influenced by their… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
“In fact, being mindful during tasks that you usually may find boring or even unpleasant can transform those tasks into something more… — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
“Something can be moving in one direction, smoothly, swiftly, something like a ball, or, oh, say, A LIFE, and then a bat… — Nick Lake Copy Share Image
The points or tips of the chakras, where they connect to the main power current, are called the roots or the hearts… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking;… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently 'scientific' knowledge… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
You can fix your body, your heart, your diabetes. In Korea, China, and India, there are people who do yoga. They go… — Seung Sahn Copy Share Image
“Set aside a specific time each day to meditate and tune into what your soul's wisdom has to share about the topic… — Laurie E. Smith Copy Share Image
Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Studies of mindfulness training and the structure and function on the brain reveal, for example, that mindfulness promotes the growth of important… — Patricia A. Jennings Copy Share Image
“a farmer in his field cannot force the nutrients of water or earth into the roots of his grain. What does he… — Abbot George Burke (Swami Nirmalananda Giri Copy Share Image
“Today, many of us seem to live our lives like honeybees collecting honey which, at the end, we will leave to others… — Farnaz Masumian Copy Share Image
Avoid such situations in which you are unnecessarily burdened with rubbish. You already have too much as it is, you need to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What you find I think in the mystical strain of Catholicism is that you're put in relationship with God, and you have… — Kevin Hart Copy Share Image
The teaching of the buddhas is: Find time and a place to remain unoccupied. That's what meditation is all about. Find at… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
So spirituality itself should be self satisfying. If you are spiritually endowed, then you are self satisfied. And this self satisfaction within… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“There are three stages in meditation. The first is what is called Dharana, concentrating the mind upon an object. I try to… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Everyone who has ever overcome hardship or adversity has done so in large part because he or she has chosen, consciously or… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
I intend 'Dämmerung' to be an ironic meditation on the financial rewards of poetry and a tragicomic lament on the passing of… — Simon Armitage Copy Share Image
We underestimate the value of patience. It is possible that people might sometimes interrupt our meditation sessions or Dharma study, but they… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
“[When I meditate,] there in the deep, I could sense something circulating inside me. It was a Knowing. I can know things… — Glennon Doyle Copy Share Image
This is what meditation means: how to be not identified with the mind - how to create a space between yourself and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
This ego business has come from various sources, you know that, but it has to be cleansed out. Like when the river… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
The meditation I am talking about is not a meditation on something. If you light a lamp and remove all the objects… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just as eagles soar through the vast expanse of the sky without meeting any obstructions, needing only minimal effort to maintain their… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
Our experience of reality is the result of the magical alchemy of the creation of our thoughts, our beliefs, our decisions, our… — Barnet Bain Copy Share Image
“With the smoke of the dead sailor's cigar wreathing around him, Willie passed to thinking about death and life and luck and… — Herman Wouk Copy Share Image
![“[When I meditate,] there in the deep, I could sense something circulating inside me. It was a Knowing. I can know things down at this level that I can't on the chaotic surface. Down here, when I pose a question about my life I sense a nudge. The nudge guides me towards [...] the next right thing…” quote by Glennon Doyle](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/415/glennon-doyle-29247_be-still_when-i-meditate-there-in-the-deep-i-coul_1365602.jpg)
