All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Fools only crib about what they do not have. They do not count their blessings. — Shri Radhe Maa Copy Share Image
Surrendering means cleansing yourself completely, getting completely detached. Detachment is the only way you can rise. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Zen approaches it from the practical side of life-that is, to work out Enlightenment in life itself. — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is possible. — Gabriel Marcel Copy Share Image
Meditation has changed so many aspects of my health that when I don't do it, I feel awful. — Beth Behrs Copy Share Image
Meditation takes time and dedication, but, for me, it's actually just about closing your eyes and being in that moment. — Hannah Peel Copy Share Image
The relationship between the prefrontal cortex and the amygdala fundamentally changes with meditation. — Jim Yong Kim Copy Share Image
If you are not as happy as you used to be, chances are you are not meditating properly. You may be trying… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is not morality, it is aesthetics. It does not impose a code of morality. it does not give you any commandments:… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In meditation you can erase the conditioning. But still, you have to fight the description of the world that everyone else is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My feeling is that drugs and alcohol take away from the pure experience of meditation. That does not mean that occasionally, a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The problem is, I cannot meditate. That's the one thing I can't do. That's the thing that's driving me nuts. I have… — Thom Yorke Copy Share Image
“Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore… — Yogi Kanna Copy Share Image
“What stops artadhyan (mournful contemplation hurting the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others) is dharma (Religion of the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Once you stop being locked into viewing reality from just one perspective, you will start to be free from habitual reactivity.” — Stephen Richards Copy Share Image
“Gutei raised his finger whenever he was asked a question about Zen. A boy attendant began to imitate him in this way.… — Paul Reps Copy Share Image
Absolute knowledge is only possible when you know the Absolute Truth and to have the Absolute Truth you have to go to… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I bow to all the seekers of truth. At the very outset we have to know that truth is what it is.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“There are many other escapes from the empirical, external self, which might seem to be, but are not, contemplation. For instance, the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“I'm completely out of control, and I can hear the beginnings of the chant, get/out/, but now that I'm not being touched… — Jael McHenry (The Kitchen Daughter Copy Share Image
Truth needs meditative eyes. If you don't have meditative eyes, then the whole life is just dull dead facts, unrelated to each… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is only the Sahasrara has to grow, not the Spirit. The more sensitive the Sahasrara is, the more it receives the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
It's a crazy world, so I meditate for 20 minutes. I also meditate for 20 minutes before a concert. — Clarence Clemons Copy Share Image
“You can see your thoughts and emotions arise & create space for them even if they are uncomfortable.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation isn’t about what’s happening; it’s about how you relate to what’s happening. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
There are few things more pleasing than the contemplation of order and useful arrangement. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The most perfect happiness, surely, must arise from the contemplation of the most perfect object.” — David Hume Copy Share Image
“The mind is a sweetheart, when it is wondering; and a bitch, when it is wandering.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead. — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Zen and Buddhism have produced martial arts, because of the Buddhist injunction against weapons. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just as food and sleep are necessary for the body, spiritual understanding is needed for a healthy mind. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“little absent from everything in the way of a Zen Master actually who realizes that everything is indifferent anyway,” — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time! — Jennifer Aniston Copy Share Image
Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. — Clarence Darrow Copy Share Image
Stop talking, stop thinking, and there is nothing you will not understand. Return to the root and you will find Meaning. — Sengcan Copy Share Image
“TANTRA is a field that says neither abstain nor be obsessed. This can be handled by a few, even if you have… — Anupama Garg Copy Share Image
