When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Being spiritual does not mean being dead serious. If you allow life to happen within you exuberantly, unbridled, you will touch the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Civilization changes man on the outside. Meditation softens him within, through and through. — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
“These examples suggest what one needs to learn to control attention. In principle any skill or discipline one can master on one’s… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
Modern science has its value in terms of utility, but it cannot open up existence to human experience. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Life is like a piece of string with a lot of knots tied in it. The knots are the karma you're born… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
“Overscheduled children lose the space to simply be with themselves and learn the art of being alone. In our noisy, busy world,… — Joshua Becker Copy Share Image
“Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean. In meditation, I feel… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Meditation can open the door and welcome all of unfathomably vast goodness in the universe.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
“One has to know what it is to be alone, what it is to meditate, what it is to die; and the… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
“I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be… — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
There are six senses: five are outer; they tell you about the world. I say something about the light; without eyes you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is… — Nhat Hanh 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
The first time I took a Kundalini yoga class, I cried my eyes out afterwards. I was so moved by the meditation… — Zoe McLellan Copy Share Image
“But there are times in our meditation – and they come to all who meditate – when everything is suddenly worn-out, old,… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Every now and then go away, have a little relaxation, for when you come back to your work your judgment will be… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Meditation makes the man Divine and brings the Divine to the world of man. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
A critical part of Tantric Buddhism is a process of turning of the activities and experiences in your daily life into meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
One wonders that there can be found a man courageous enough to occupy the post. It is a matter of meditation. Having… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
“It is when our inner male and female sides meets within ourselves that a new spark of love, joy, and wholeness arises… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Whatever you have committed wrong in the past or whatever you used to think of the future, the present becomes divine. And… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Meditation does not mean just sitting quietly for five or ten minutes. It requires conscious effort. The mind has to be made… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
“The fruit of practicing dharmadhyan (auspicious contemplation, to not hurt anyone, to give happiness to others) is samyak darshan (enlightened vision).” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“That which blocks circumstances is artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and that which pushes away circumstances is also artadhyan. To… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“It is not necessary that you should compare yourself with others, or imagine yourself greater or higher than them. In fact, such… — Yogi Ramacharaka Copy Share Image
“Praying for peace is wonderful; meditations on loving kindness and compassion are sublime; acts of generosity and healing have the power to… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
