For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
I'm naturally a graceful human being. So meditation helps me stay grounded. When we're silent for a moment, it helps us to… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.… — Rajneesh 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
“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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
“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
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
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
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
“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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“[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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
“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
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
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