Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness. — George MacDonald Copy Share Image
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts. — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto what’s going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You… — Ajahn Amaro 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
The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side. — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until… — James Finley Copy Share Image
I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really… — Moby 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
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“In its purest form the term meditation means two things; (1) the state of meditation, which resembles deep dreamless sleep while awake,… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
Here are two dichotomies here. In the West it is a very physical practice, and even meditation is a practice to become… — Karan Bajaj Copy Share Image
“Meditation practice is how we discover basic goodness and learn to cultivate bodhichitta. With this view, practice, and activity, even the most… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It… — Daniel Goleman Copy Share Image
Sleep is critical to me... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“To know your mind, you need a little distance. You need to be a step or two away and be able to… — Eric Overby Copy Share Image
You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
“Most people are meditating on what they like, or don’t like. Most people are meditating on how to be happy, how to… — Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya Copy Share Image
“Particularly when it comes to chaos magic, building your own optimal metaphysics becomes more challenging when you have to shoehorn it into… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
“From the perspective of the consciousness disciplines, our ordinary state of waking consciousness is severely suboptimal. Rather than contradicting the Western paradigm,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“CORE MEDITATION: Breathing This classic meditation can deepen concentration by teaching us to focus on the “in breath” and the “out breath.”… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“For a perfect yogī, there are eight kinds of superachievements: one can become lighter than air, one can become smaller than the… — A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda Copy Share Image
“Dream Meditation Practices are best performed in an isolated (close to nature) chamber that is clean and dry. Diet should be modified… — Mantak Chia Copy Share Image
“Don’t let us take doubts with exaggerated seriousness nor let them grow out of proportion, or become black-and-white or fanatical about them.… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
