“You will bring yourself the suffering you need to bring yourself so that you may awaken.” — T. Scott McLeod Copy Share Image
All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
Yoga doesn't ask you to be more than you are. But it does ask you to be all that you are. — Bryan Kest Copy Share Image
Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
In meditation, you learn how to get out of your own way long enough for there to be room for your wisdom… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
When I meditate in the morning, it really changes my day and my relationship with my day. — Lauren Bowles Copy Share Image
I dabbled in and out of meditation for a long time, but then I was doing it every day and it definitely… — Angela Scanlon Copy Share Image
It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Correct meditation means correctly understanding your situation moment by moment - what are you doing now? Only do it! Then, each action… — Seung Sahn Copy Share Image
“Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it’s necessary to start with ourselves.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
The reality of en-masse inner transformation of human beings by self-realisation is the most revolutionary discovery of the present age. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Rather than allowing our response to an even affect our breathing, we can learn instead to let our breathing change our relationship… — Cyndi Lee Copy Share Image
“If practiced intentionally and purposefully meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, to develop your ability to think mindfully, and… — Ilchi Lee Copy Share Image
When you open yourself to the continually changing, impermanent, dynamic nature of your own being and of reality, you increase your capacity… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“But the character of a man is not to be judged from the pictures which he may draw or from the antics… — Anthony Trollope Copy Share Image
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research… — Abhinavagupta Copy Share Image
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him.… — William Romaine Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be more alien to contemplation than the cogito ergo sum of Descartes. “I think, therefore I am.” This is the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“1. Do all meditation work with open eyes, with the Buddhic smile. 2. Keep attention inside on the No-thought state and refrain… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Take a minute. Pause. Stop doing, and simply be...This moment. Think, here, now. This moment will never occur again. This moment is… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“When you begin to feel like the noise of the world is drowning out your inner voice...Stop,Breathe,Come back to yourself .” — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Each movement can be a meditation — a way for us to turn inward and connect with our bodies on a deeper level.” — Raegan Robinson Copy Share Image
Sahaja Yoga is the spontaneous union of the individual consciousness with the All-Pervading Divine Power... — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the energy that makes us fully present, fully alive in the here and the now.” — Thich Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
There's something Zen-like about the way I work - it's like raking gravel in a Zen Buddhist garden. — Chuck Close Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is the awareness of the infinitude of all things. To gain that awareness, to be it, is enlightenment. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“mantra is a word, syllable, or sound, that functions as the point of focus in meditation.” — Sarah Rowland Copy Share Image
If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over. — Joyce Meyer Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is attainable when one can embrace life, not its circumstances.” — Michelle Cruz-Rosado Copy Share Image
Seeking means admitting that you do not know. Once you have cleared your slate, truth can imprint itself upon it. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Do not let pleasure distract you from meditation, from the way. Free yourself from pleasure and pain. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a pause -- the space between stimulus and response: that's where choice lies. — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
In brief, without being mindful of death, whatever Dharma practices you take up will be merely superficial. — Milarepa Copy Share Image
“I've taken up meditation. I like to have an espresso first to make it more challenging.” — Betsy Salkind Copy Share Image
