Go within every day and find the inner strength so that the world will not blow your candle out — Katherine Dunham Copy Share Image
To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“The skills available to us through mindfulness make it possible to bring love to our connections with others.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation simplifies us, simplifies us to the point where we can receive the fullness of truth and the fullness of love. — John Main Copy Share Image
Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion. — Tsoknyi Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Success is when the whole gets enlightened. When you become one with the whole, that's the real success. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“FANTASIES It’s not a problem to build castles in the air; it becomes a problem when we start living in them.” — Amar Ochani Copy Share Image
Amid those scenes of solitude... the mind is cast into the contemplation of eternal things. — Thomas Cole Copy Share Image
To these Teachers of Zen; you want a zafu cushion? sit your zen ass on a bicycle seat and peddle into hurricane… — Steve Ilg Copy Share Image
“To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Nirvikalpa Samadhi means you are sitting in meditation and you go beyond the planes of light to nirvana. Then you come back… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“When the mind enters into this imageless and thoughtless state, there is nothing in it to resist the union with divine consciousness.” — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Although I try / to hold the single thought / of Buddha's teaching in my heart, / I cannot help but hear… — Izumi Shikibu Copy Share Image
Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even… — Jet Li Copy Share Image
All creations are one with the universe. Look at the world around you. Can you effectively separate yourself from everything else? After… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I would like the whole world to be full with authentic art, throbbing with it, living with it, because that is the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
How can a troubled mind Understand the way? If a man is disturbed He will never be filled with knowledge. An untroubled… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Contemplation means rest, suspension of activity, withdrawal into the mysterious interior solitude in which the soul is absorbed in the immense and… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Here's an example: someone says, "Master, please hand me the knife," and he hands them the knife, blade first. "Please give me… — Alan Watts 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
“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
“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
Meditation is very important to me. I feel off-balance when I skip a day. — Melissa Rauch Copy Share Image
'Beloved Renegade' is a meditation on Walt Whitman, on tenderness, on dying. — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
“Simply BEING is OKAY you know? If you make space to 'be', your 'doing' becomes whole and balanced.” — Kelly Martin Copy Share Image
What you learn about pain in formal meditation can help you relate to it in your daily life. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
All knowledge that the world has ever received comes from the mind; the infinite library of the universe is in our own… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
“Zen is relevant as long as human beings are in close proximity to one another.” — VD Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is the exploration of everything, since everything is a part of enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I practice loving-kindness meditation, which cultivates compassion and equanimity. — Sarah MacLean Copy Share Image
Every basic act like eating and copulating becomes magical when you do it consciously. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
I don't believe in hours and hours of meditation. The mind gets tired and starts to fold in on itself. — Dolores Ashcroft-Nowicki Copy Share Image
Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Throwing away Zen mind is correct Zen mind. Only keep the question, 'What is the best way of helping other people?' — Seungsahn Copy Share Image
Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the… — Kelsey Grammer Copy Share Image
“Bravery is absence of contemplation and idiocy is the extinction of it.” — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
“To meditate, stew, and brew on too many negative thoughts, distorts and super-sizes offenses and causes anger.” — Stephen L. Bowen Copy Share Image
