Meditation is the freeing of ourselves from all mental states and concepts of self. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“I look out my window a lot. It’s just one of those things that keeps me grounded in this weird, one-with-nature kind… — R.B. O'Brien Copy Share Image
In practicing meditation, we're not trying to live up to some kind of ideal -- quite the opposite. We're just being with… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics. — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The natural purity of our mind is of no use to us if we are not aware of it, and if we… — Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life. — Paula Fox Copy Share Image
Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“Other centuries sought safety in the union of reason and religion, research and asceticism. In their Universitas Litterarum, theology ruled. Among us… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
Your thoughts and emotions are the drama that you create in your mind. You must be able to end it somewhere. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“The highest point reached by contemplative [anschauende] materialism, that is, materialism which does not comprehend sensuousness as practical activity, is the contemplation… — Karl Marx 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
“Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear. Through… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities. — Chuck Norris Copy Share Image
“Why do we call yoga a practice? The yoga poses of life—the grief, the fear, the uncertainty—rarely offer us the option of… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
It is distraction, not meditation, that becomes habitual; interruption, not continuity; spasmodic, not constant toil. — Tillie Olsen Copy Share Image
Eventually you will go into samadhi. Samadhi is a very advanced meditation. You dissolve into the clear light of eternity again and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Repose is the secret of all contemplation and meditation, the secret of getting in tune with that aspect of life which is… — Hazrat Inayat Khan Copy Share Image
“There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
For soon the body is discarded, Then what does it feel? A useless log of wood, it lies on the ground, Then… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which… — George Mac Donald Copy Share Image
The everyday practice is simply to develop a complete acceptance and openness to all situations and emotions and to all people, experiencing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
When you forgive a person, what do you do? You accept the situation, to begin with. And secondly, you forgive what you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
