“Procrastination is the enemy of accomplishment—not simply because the task you are avoiding fails to get done, but because all of your… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Everyone meditates in their own way. Some people sit and practice formal mediation techniques for many hours a day while others spontaneously… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
In the vastness of the cosmos, everything is going perfect, but one nasty little thought in your mind can make it a… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
You have thousands of selves inside you. Meditation is a process of peeling back the layers of the self. We start with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I don't find that writing about parts of my life had much effect except in some cases to improve my memory. To… — Marge Piercy Copy Share Image
I hate having to do small talk. I'd rather talk about deep subjects. I'd rather talk about meditation, or the world, or… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“When I was 15 years old, I came in contact with my first ashram, my first spiritual commune, in the form of… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Meditation opens the door between the conscious and subconscious minds. We meditate to enter the operating system of the subconscious, where all… — Joe Dispenza Copy Share Image
So, to meditate is to purge the mind of its self-centered activity. And if you have come this far in meditation, you… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Use all your suffering for meditation, and soon you will come to know that the suffering disappears because the energy starts moving… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“A psychologist came to me for a personal meeting and said, "It's good that it's not a cult." There are two kinds… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
It is a totally different creativity I am talking about. A Taj Mahal... just watching it on a full moon night, and… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It's your worst sin saving your f***ing life; It's the devil's knife carving holes into your soul so angels have a way… — Andrea Gibson Copy Share Image
Blessed are those who have known meditation. Only those few people are the blessed people; others are simply groping in darkness. Meditation… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The joys received through prayer, meditation, and contemplation are the highest of all joys which cannot be given by the world. All… — Senoraroy Copy Share Image
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
It is not good to talk about Zen, because Zen is nothingness... If you talk about it, you are always lying, and… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“Just because the yogis went into the mountains to meditate does not mean you have to, too. One can meditate anywhere and… — Poonam Dhandhania Copy Share Image
“Also by Jimmy Carter Our Endangered Values Sharing Good Times The Hornet’s Nest The Nobel Peace Prize Lecture Christmas in Plains (illustrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
If only there is a sufficient number of people whose experience of life goes beyond body and mind, this world will be… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“The intrinsic and extrinsic heart is always at odds, so which heart is yours? For one will bask in true joy, while… — Joel T. McGrath Copy Share Image
“The one who believes himself to be a person needs to try to find that person. This is a solution, an antidote,… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
You grow your best thoughts in silence, solitude, and meditation. When you relax and think deeply, you are giving your inmost powers… — Grenville Kleiser Copy Share Image
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else,… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
In meditation and in our daily lives there are three qualities that we can nurture, cultivate, and bring out. We already possess… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at… — Jane Hirshfield Copy Share Image
Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into… — David Abram Copy Share Image
I see my work as visual meditations on the human experience and my attempts to capture the thin, otherwordly realm I believe… — Kim Hunter Copy Share Image
“Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Whenever a thought occurs, be aware of it, as soon as you are aware of it, it will vanish. If you remain… — Yi Wu Taigen Leighton Copy Share Image
Tantric Zen is all about the practice of zazen meditation. If you meditate well, you'll be in very powerful states of mind… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“A wise man once said, 'Life is like breathing. If you try to hold it, you'll lose it. But let it come… — Curtis Tyrone Jones Copy Share Image
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful… — Harrison Ford Copy Share Image
I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during… — Liz Williams Copy Share Image
Once the director calls for action, we act; we stop when he says 'Cut.' It is sort of like meditation - unknowingly,… — Mohanlal Copy Share Image
You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj 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
Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the… — David Lynch Copy Share Image