“when it comes to interior design, Zen is a true reflection of balance, peace and harmony. Even though Zen is not an… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
Meditation means you start changing your inner world. You start removing dust from the inner world, you start removing all that is… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from 'hurry sickness.' Become more introspective by visiting… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
For better or worse, I tend to do a lot of thinking in my poems. But lately I've been trying to pay… — Jennifer Grotz Copy Share Image
Our most emotionally active life is lived in our dreams, and our cells renew themselves most industriously in sleep. We reach highest… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
Contemplation is not and cannot be a function of this external self. There is an irreducible opposition between the deep transcendent self… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
“Meditation and running are essentially addressing these two kinds of pain. Of course, we cannot run all day and all night, and… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
The practice of Zen is to eat, breathe, cook, carry water, and scrub the toilet — to infuse every act of body,… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Mindfulness has never been more important considering how the events of the world move in such an accelerated, frantic time. Our attention… — Barnet Bain Copy Share Image
“A Kula or spiritual community is like a nudist camp for the soul. Not only are we given the permission to remove… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
If you just sit and spend time with yourself - you were born as you, just you, and that's how you're gonna… — Daphne Zuniga Copy Share Image
Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“In shukladhyan (Internal state that renders the constant awareness of ‘I am pure Soul'), entire world begins to be perceived as faultless.… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Am I sleeping? Have I slept at all? This is the insomnia. Try to relax a little more with every breath out,… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“They who have received some portion of God’s gift, these, if judged by their deeds, have from death’s bond won their release;… — Muata Ashby Copy Share Image
I started to meditate formally at about 18. I would sit on a mountaintop in Southern California around twilight and focus on… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The process could be likened to relaxing on a riverbank and watching a fish leap out of the water, sparkle for a… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
If you want to know what you are here to do, how you can be more loving, or how to get through… — James Van Praagh Copy Share Image
When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“Thought exists only in words, or in images. Meditation demands the most extraordinary discipline – not the discipline of suppression and conformity… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The Witness is a huge step forward, and it is a necessary and important step in meditation, but it is not ultimate.… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
Mental purity will come through constant chanting of the divine name. This is the simplest way. You are trying to cross the… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Meditating is easier than most people think. Start by focusing and following your breath. The goal is not to eliminate thoughts entirely… — Lewis Howes Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is not just about sitting in a room encountering a mystical god in meditation or about seeing God in a sunset.… — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
“A Chinese Zen master[FN#230] tells us that the method of instruction adopted by Zen may aptly be compared with that of an… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“The human brain is incredible in its capacity to heal and rewire itself. The human brain can be shaped and trained to… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the word of… — George Mueller Copy Share Image
“The distinction between acquisition and discovery may seem like hairsplitting, but it is important to see that . . . the contemplative… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“But, like all indulgences that are valued not just for their product but for their process, the sento will never entirely disappear.… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“When we sit in meditation, we are closer than usual to the world as it is. By simply bringing body, breath, and… — Andrew Furst Copy Share Image
Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which… — Duncan Ferguson Copy Share Image
All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time,… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Millions of people have tried meditation and dropped out of it because they took it very seriously. Religion has been thought to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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