But this is that which will dignify and exalt knowledge: if contemplation and action be more nearly and straitly conjoined and united… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
“Meditation is generally an alternation between the feeling of bliss and the witnessing of a thought having a problem with the having… — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Meditation is for many a foreign concept, somehow distant and foreboding, seemingly impossible to participate in. But another word for meditation is… — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
Learn how to meditate on paper. Drawing and writing are forms of meditation. Learn how to contemplate works of art. Learn how… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation. I keep the subject constantly before me and wait 'til the first dawnings open… — Isaac Newton Copy Share Image
Trees are the source of your very breath - cut and you shall curtail life itself. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“They’re close. Voices loud and fierce, Slapping faces with words. A scream … A cry … They’re getting closer. Did I lock… — Barbara Brooke Copy Share Image
How important is a constant intercourse with nature and the contemplation of natural phenomena to the preservation of moral and intellectual health! — Henry David Thoreau 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
One should turn towards the main ocean of the-beautiful-in-the-world so that one may by, contemplation of this Form, bring forth in all… — Plato Copy Share Image
“Prayer, meditation, and confession actually have the power to rewire the brain in a way that can make us less self-referential and… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
“It’s not that the negative thoughts and feelings don’t arise, but when you meditate regularly, they are allowed to just be there… — Louise Watson Copy Share Image
“God does not live in idols and temples either…of course, idols and temples are some of the ways that remind us of… — Girdhar Joshi Copy Share Image
Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
If you become so intensely curious that without knowing you cannot live, that is called seeking. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction… — Debra Moffitt Copy Share Image
Creativity has two possibilities. One is that it arises out of your silence, love, understanding, your clarity of vision, your intimate friendliness… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
We don't think about pilgrimage in this country. We don't think about meditation. The idea of taking a six-week walk is totally… — Emilio Estevez Copy Share Image
Turn your vision inward and then the whole world will be full of the Supreme Spirit. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Meditation is not 'going somewhere;' it's diving deep here, this moment. — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
In meditation, when your thoughts are stopped, you become empty. When you are empty, your mind folds back on itself and you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Offer Christ your heart in meditation and personal prayer which is the foundation of the spiritual life. — Pope John Paul II Copy Share Image
Meditation isn't necessarily this magical experience where we don't ever have thoughts. — Gretchen Bleiler Copy Share Image
A time comes when you don't have to use meditation techniques anymore. You just sit down and you are nonexistence itself. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Everything in the service involved communication,” he says with gentle exasperation. “Greeting people, the lengthy sermon, the singing. There was no emphasis… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Happiness is always possible - the only thing that really holds you back is your mind. You have probably already noticed that… — Robert Holden Copy Share Image
“There is the gradual path to enlightenment or the direct. The direct you sense during the lifetime, the gradual when time is… — Lenfantvivant Copy Share Image
Progress can be slow and gradual. Continue putting in effort with patience, enthusiasm and faith. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“We practice biblical meditation by noting, quoting, and devoting ourselves to whatever passage of Scripture we’re reading or studying, based on the… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest… — Jeremy Taylor Copy Share Image
When the soul is naughted and transformed, then of herself she neither works nor speaks nor wills, nor feels nor hears nor… — Catherine of Genoa Copy Share Image
