Mindfulness creates centered awareness. When you do one thing at a time, you're guaranteed excellent results. If you do too many things… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Meditation or religion is a totally different world: it is relaxation, it is let-go - it is not concentration at all. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Zen is a very fast path to enlightenment, fast in comparison to some other paths, not fast for the person who practices… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The soul loves to meditate, for in contact with the Spirit lies its greatest joy. If, then you experience mental resistance during… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Reality bends not to force, but to frequency; when your inner state aligns with the pattern of what you seek, creation has… — Maurice Price Copy Share Image
“Forgiveness is not something we do; rather it is a process of reminding yourself over and over again that holding a resentment… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Worrying about not having food to eat today; is called artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self). And worrying about not having… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation. — Pam Houston Copy Share Image
Innocence never gets destroyed because it is eternal, but it may happen that it will get covered with some clouds by our… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“Zen's object of worship cannot be named and determined as God, or Brahman, or Amitabha, or Creator, or Nature, or Reality, or… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
For Christians, as for all people of faith, reflection, meditation and prayer help us to renew ourselves in God's love, as we… — Queen Elizabeth II Copy Share Image
“SURELY YOU SEE from this that you shouldn’t take your own experience as the rule of thumb by which you judge other… — Carmen Acevedo Butcher Copy Share Image
The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
To live out of understanding is compassion. Never try to practice it, simply relax deep into meditation. Be in a state of… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be like a river in generosity and giving help. Be like a sun in tenderness and pity. Be like night when covering… — Rumi Copy Share Image
Ever-new Joy is God. He is inexhaustible; as you continue your meditations during the years, He will beguile you with an infinite… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Salvakalpa samadhi is a tremendous acceptance and liberation, but it is not complete absorption in nirvana, in that consciousness. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In emotions you should be bubbling with joy. Joy is your emotion. In action you should be thoughtless and in ascent you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
I observe many people who say they are meditating, but I sure don't see them meditating. They sit and touch a lot… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Every moment of mindfulness means the gradual destruction of latent defilements. It is somewhat like cutting away a piece of wood with… — Mahasi Sayadaw Copy Share Image
Our current perception is very cloudy and all screwed up. As our perception increases through meditation, we're seeing life more correctly. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it,… — Prem Rawat 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
Zen has nothing to do with any god. No sincere man, no intelligent man has anything to do with any fiction. He… — OSHO Copy Share Image
You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just… — Moby Copy Share Image
I started meditating and as soon as I turned that lens of attention inwards, it was like, okay, game over. This is… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
Understand the suffering of worldly existence. Abandon its causes of ignorance and selfishness. Practice the path of meditation and compassion. Awaken from… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In the freshness of the present moment, past is gone, future is not yet born, and—if one remains in pure mindfulness and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
The important aim in Christian meditation is to allow God's mysterious and silent presence within us to become more and more not… — John Main Copy Share Image
These are the roots of trees, O monks, these are empty huts. Meditate, monks, do not be negligent, or else you will… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Too long have I confined myself in Miltonic isolation and meditation. It is clearly time for me to step boldly into our… — John Kennedy Toole Copy Share Image
At the end of the archana, prostrate, then get up and, remaining on the same spot, turn around clockwise 3 times just… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Samadhi is perfect absorption to the point where there is no sense of being absorbed, not the consciousness of knowing that you… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man's flying to the… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
If you are willing to experience anything directly and immediately, whether good or bad, joyous or hateful, you will recognize that what… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
Before I was on medication, the mania was so bad that I couldn't concentrate, so although I'd feel very creative, I could… — Beth Hart Copy Share Image
What is Zen? Zen is looking at things with the eye of God, that is, becoming the thing's eyes so that it… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
