Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray! — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“Mediation centred upon divine realities is the very essence and soul of prayer.” — James Allen Copy Share Image
Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation. — A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada Copy Share Image
I shaved my hair. I wore robes. I slept on the floor. We meditated for four to eight hours a day. — Jay Shetty Copy Share Image
“Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Hawk or I are operating on emotional whim. It’s just the way we experience things sometimes needs to get… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
Buddha activity doesn't mean radiating light and elevating yourself up a thousand feet in the air. That's not the point. The point… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in… — John Astin 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
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 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
“Let us not be trapped by faint discrimination or intolerance preventing us from creating open perspectives. If we rise above the imprisonment… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
It is only through meditation that purity comes. Meditation means jumping out of the mind. There is no need to purify the… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
If you're meditating and it's easy, you're either enlightened or you're cheating. — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“Nobody ever reaches to God, God comes to you when you are open and receptive, when you are ready.” — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life. — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
Whether it is your work, your love, or your life - unless you throw your entire self into it, you will never… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The life of wisdom must be a life of contemplation combined with action. — M. Scott Peck Copy Share Image
Zen is not interested in high-flown statements; it wants its pupil to bite his apple and not discuss it. — Anne Bancroft Copy Share Image
There is a sense of competition in Zen. You are competing with your thoughts and trying to overcome them. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves. — Kathleen McDonald Copy Share Image
“Thinking protects us against experiencing the overwhelming wonderfulness of life.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Anyone who meditates for a period of time will gradually become more sensitized to all of life. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Dhyan (meditation) is an effect. An effect cannot be 'done', it arises; it comes about naturally.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the simplest process through which you can create harmony between the body, mind, spirit, and nature.” — Debasish Mridha Copy Share Image
