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
Spirituality as a science, as a study, is the greatest and healthiest exercise that the human mind can have. — Swami Vivekananda 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
Most people think that to meditate, I should feel a particular special something, and if I don't, then I must be doing… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In meditation what you are trying to do is simply get rid of your own junk. You are trying to move all… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditate?” I took my head out from under the pillow, shook dark hair back from my face, and rolled over on my… — Rachel Caine Copy Share Image
There is no greater magic than meditation. To transform the negative into the positive. To transform darkness into light-that is the miracle… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is discipline - the discipline of living life, the discipline of taking a breath, the discipline of not knowing and not… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I preach the gospel of meditation now to anyone who'll listen. It has helped me appreciate the small things. It helps me… — Big E Copy Share Image
Now the best thing is to put attention to your spirit. If you start putting your attention to spirit, the sweetness of… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Tantric Buddhism is just a collection of things that work by doing them. And sometimes we add new things. We have electronic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The autobiographical self (D’Amasio 2000) incorporates the reflective self and some of the emotional self, and it provides the sense of “I”… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Writing is mental exercise and the preeminent method to train the mind to achieve a desirable state of mental quietude. Meditative writing,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Psychedelic experience is only a glimpse of genuine mystical insight, but a glimpse which can be matured and deepened by the various… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“The Abundant Chamber by Stewart Stafford Divest yourself of sword and coin, And burn all your illusions and airs, Let the cave… — Stewart Stafford Copy Share Image
Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
I'm naturally a graceful human being. So meditation helps me stay grounded. When we're silent for a moment, it helps us to… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
For contemplation is both the highest form of activity (since the intellect is the highest thing in us, and the objects that… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Meditation is totally different. When you concentrate you close your mind to everything else. Meditation means just an openness, a relaxed openness.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One significant thing that you can do for your children is to invest some time into taking them out into nature. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
If there were no world, no time, no space, no condition, if none of us existed, that would be meditation. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Your own attention is important, not the attention of others or your attention on others. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Matter can never give you joy. It's the Spirit that gives you joy. — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
If you find a Tantric master - he has you go and do all the things you hate to do. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the art removing the weeds from the garden of possibilities.” — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. — Midge Decter Copy Share Image
Forget the dancer, the center of the ego; become the dance. That is meditation. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
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
Zen is a very quick path to enlightenment and development of the mind and all its facilities. — Frederick Lenz 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
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
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances. — Aberjhani 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