“The force of a visualization (which is a chain of intended and purposeful thoughts) can help you tap into the right energy… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him.… — William Romaine Copy Share Image
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research… — Abhinavagupta Copy Share Image
Take a minute. Pause. Stop doing, and simply be...This moment. Think, here, now. This moment will never occur again. This moment is… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be more alien to contemplation than the cogito ergo sum of Descartes. “I think, therefore I am.” This is the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“1. Do all meditation work with open eyes, with the Buddhic smile. 2. Keep attention inside on the No-thought state and refrain… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“In order to benefit yogis and yoginis who are applying themselves diligently in the preliminary practices and guru yoga, like rivers of… — Nida Chenagtsang Copy Share Image
Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Synaptic downscaling during the meditation leads to a reduced energy demand of the brain. Meditation can provide synaptic re-normalization. Meditation represents a… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“To the unaware person, karma is the prison in which the mind is held hostage. Because of karma, an unaware person is… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Devotees of these two spiritual paths of experience—oneness and goodness—have been at odds for centuries. Proponents of the oneness path have insisted… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
Happiness happens when you fit with your life, when you fit so harmoniously that whatsoever you are doing is your joy. Then… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Do not force your mind to get rid of random thoughts, because your brain is simply not capable of doing so. Instead,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Fundamentalism wears many masks, but always claims a monopoly on the Truth. Many people buy into fundamentalism in much the same way… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“A study published by researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital in 2011 found that subjects who practiced meditation for an average of just… — Scott Stossel Copy Share Image
Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Meditation is like going to a well, the waters of which are inexhaustible, with a pitcher that is always empty. The pitcher… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“you’ve learned to align your consciousness with your inner Watcher and perch there, observing your physical and emotional feelings. Just one step… — Martha N. Beck Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is the ability to be aware, to note, to notice. When we apply that to our thoughts and mental habits, we… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
“Its meaning is to rest one-pointedly on the focal object [of meditation], without being distracted by other thoughts. If this [one-pointed resting]… — Karl Brunnholzl Copy Share Image
There are four great events in history, the siege of Troy, the life and crucifixion of Christ, the exile of Krishna in… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Yoga can give you greater health and longevity, but these benefits can also become distractions from the greater truth that yoga seeks… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
We have limited time in our life, therefore we should try to teach ourselves, not to teach others. We should conquer ourselves,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have… — Daniel Pinchbeck Copy Share Image
“The doorway into the silent land is a wound. Silence lays bare this wound. We do not journey far along the spiritual… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
Drugs took me to places; they were like portals. It's kind of a cliché, but they were like portals to altered states… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Mood reflects the biology of the brain. How you feel is affected by the chemicals in the brain, and these are the… — Liz Miller Copy Share Image
When we let our mind relax, a moment will come when we rest without thoughts. This stable state is like an ocean… — Bokar Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The ability to handle stress increases with the practice of meditation. In a culture like ours in which inner, spiritual growth is… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
I visualise what I want through meditation. The process of meditating is a great way of making sure I have my priorities… — Shilpa Shetty Copy Share Image
When thoughts are reduced, power of the mind and its subtlety increases, tunes with the Universe. Then you can see the realms… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
The meditation that gives you immediate joy or continuous joy is the best meditation for you. Everyone will not have the same… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
What is meditation? It is not your character, it is not what you do. It is what you are. It is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image