True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If your love leads to misery, it was from the ego. If your love leads to a beautiful benediction, a blessedness, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Contemplation, as it has come to be understood in the Christian tradition, is a return to the paradisiacal state of union with… — William Shannon Copy Share Image
“One of the most difficult things to remember is to remember to remember. We forget that we live in a body with… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went… — Valentina Zelyaeva Copy Share Image
“Scientific discovery always arises out of meditation, not out of mind. And whenever something comes from the mind, it is not science… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The present mood in which they sat relaxed was nothing more than the relief of two people coming back to a bombed… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
“I have always had the capacity to go within myself and to discover the silence within, the inner meditative quality, the inner… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Many questing young people and stressed older people nowadays seek relaxation through meditation. They look for it in Hindu, Buddhist and other… — Ray Simpson Copy Share Image
In Savasana or in meditation, the light of the eyes is drawn towards the lotus of the heart, so that the seat… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“In the book of Job, the Lord demands, “Where wast thou when I laid the foundations of the earth?” “I was there!”-surely… — Peter Matthiessen 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
“Science can produce vaccines or gas chambers, religion can initiate soup kitchens or concentration camps. Bigger than science, bigger than religion, I'm… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“No matter how hard one tries, samadhi (state of inner bliss) cannot be maintained even for a minute, in this worldly life.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
I'll take transformational change any way it comes. One way to look at meditation is as a kind of intrapsychic technology that's… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“At the root of all the harm we cause is ignorance. Through meditation, that’s what we begin to undo. If we see… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Want a happier, more content life? I highly recommend the down-to-earth methods you'll find in 'Mindfulness.' Professor Mark Williams and Dr Danny… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
All the classical meditation traditions, in one way or another, stress nonattachment to the self as a goal of practice. Oddly, this… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Try a little harder, and meditation comes. You do not feel the body or anything else. When you come out of it… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Samadhi. Immersed in concentration and meditation, all thoughts and distractions far away. Your focus steady, you achieve samadhi. All that exists is… — Alberto Villoldo Copy Share Image
“Meditation has countless benefits - from better health to increased focus to a deeper sense of calm - but the biggie is… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
We cannot expect to be in control of the circumstances in our lives when we cannot control our minds for five minutes.… — Iyanla Vanzant Copy Share Image
So the most difficult thing is always to keep your beginner's mind. There is no need to have a deep understanding of… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“I took my time, running my fingers along the spines of books, stopping to pull a title from the shelf and inspect… — Beth Pattillo Copy Share Image
“Just as a hug is the only way to express yourself when words are inadequate,mudras, or gestures, convey profound spiritual experiences that… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“What’s with you and the whole meditation thing?” Trying to avoid another long, unsuccessful answer, I blurted out, “I do it because… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“In consequence of the inevitably scattered and fragmentary nature of our thinking, which has been mentioned, and of the mixing together of… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Help people to meditate, because there is nothing more creative than meditation. Each art and each creativity can be tremendously enhanced by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“One of the best—and most easily available—ways we can become healthier and happier is through mindfulness and meditation. Every element of well-being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The very actions themselves can be a meditation. For me, walking is certainly a meditation if I walk for awhile. First my… — Shakti Gawain Copy Share Image
“Take for instance a man driven to incessant work by a sense of deep insecurity and loneliness; or another one driven by… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“All great myths and stories follow a similar pattern. The hero gets distracted and questions his power. He struggles and flounders until… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Better than merely "seeing" the "sense" of people's actions is "feeling" the sense of what they are doing. Going along with the… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject… — Hans Urs von Balthasar Copy Share Image
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. You're given a mantra… — David Lynch Copy Share Image
The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind.… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
