“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
“The autobiographical self (D’Amasio 2000) incorporates the reflective self and some of the emotional self, and it provides the sense of “I”… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
When I consider the multitude of associated forces which are diffused through nature - when I think of that calm balancing of… — Michael Faraday Copy Share Image
But I am all for love, and I am against marriage, particularly the arranged kind, because the arranged marriage gives you satisfaction.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Our role as gardeners is to choose, plant and tend the best seeds within the garden of our consciousness. Learning to look… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
What sort of power is it that really and truly renders the deity present? Human beings automatically think of God as someone… — Jon Sobrino Copy Share Image
Men are tied up to their families and possessions more helplessly than in a prison. There is an occasion for the prisoner… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
We have to make the first move ourselves rather than expecting it to come from the phenomenal world or from other people.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“But I saw your aura looking healthy again, then looking sick after a hunt. And you keep getting migraines. You should take… — L.A. Weatherly Copy Share Image
If we fail to realize our full potential as human beings, we live more on an animalistic level. This is fine for… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
We all build internal sea walls to keep at bay the sadnesses of life and the often overwhelming forces within our minds.… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I really try to take a step back from the soccer world and going a thousand miles an hour every day. I… — Alex Morgan Copy Share Image
Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Types of Meditation While there are myriad of meditation techniques out there, there are two basic types of meditation that we… — Sonali Perera Copy Share Image
The attention is to be kept pure. In Sahaja Yoga you know all the methods how the attention, one can keep it… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Transcendental Meditation is not a religion, it's not against any religion, it's for human beings, no matter what color, what religion, what… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
“It is the mind’s job to protect and take care of you, to solve your problems and make sure you’re safe. So,… — Sharon Rose Summers Copy Share Image
From where does this "I" arise? Seek for it within; it then vanishes. This is the pursuit of wisdom. When the mind… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“The world would have us fill every space and occupy every corner of the mind. Yoga asks us to become empty; to… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“There is a certain joy in looking through the window of a moving vehicle. It makes us thoughtless. And no mental state… — Abhaidev Copy Share Image
When you are in deep meditation you don't feel meditation, you feel bliss. When you are deep in meditation, when you are… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's still possible to savor the remarkable foods that millennia of human ingenuity have teased from milk. A sip of milk itself… — Harold McGee Copy Share Image
If you truly get in touch with a piece of carrot, you get in touch with the soil, the rain, the sunshine.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“College students were instructed to sit by themselves for up to fifteen minutes in a sparsely furnished, unadorned room and “entertain themselves… — James Kingsland Copy Share Image
“This is the law of nature that every person who is born has to go through certain kind of painful experiences. The… — Subodh Gupta Copy Share Image
The point is not how long you meditate; the point is whether the practice actually brings you to a certain state of… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Realization includes everything, the mundane and the transcendental. In true awakening, nothing stands apart and nothing is excluded. If we find ourselves… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
The more meditation goes deep, the more you will become master of your own thoughts. You will say, "Stop!" and the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
“There are no mistakes in Zentangle, so there is no need for an eraser. If you do not like the look of… — Beckah Krahula Copy Share Image
“Love is not an exclusive relationship with another person; love is the quality that arises when we are in contact with our… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Take almost any path you please, and ten to one it carries you down in a dale, and leaves you there by… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The curtain of worldly desire must be ripped in half and I must look into my own soul and overcome the pit… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
When I tried this morning, after an hour or so of unhappy thinking, to dip back into my meditation, I took a… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“There is beauty all around us, and the light finds us when we realize, we are all part of that beauty and… — Tom Althouse Copy Share Image
“Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening… — R.A. Torrey Copy Share Image
“Recently, we uncovered an important mechanism by which a month of mindfulness meditation (about 11 hours of practice, 0.5 per day, 5… — Elkhonon Goldberg Copy Share Image
