Those who are pure in heart and single in purpose are able to understand the most supreme Way. It is like polishing… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room. It's almost a form of… — Neil Simon Copy Share Image
“In zazen practice we say your mind should be concentrated on your breathing, but the way to keep your mind on your… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
It is not simply a transient happiness that you experience in meditation that creates balance; it is a transformative light. Inner light… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it’s easy to repeat established… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Satori is a brief flash. Suddenly the light breaks through. For a short timeless time we experience eternity in its unmanifest form.… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Though reading and conversation may furnish us with many ideas of men and things, yet it is our own meditation must form… — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
When I am onstage, singing all these songs... what's going through my mind is nothing. That's what's so amazing about meditation -… — Thao Nguyen Copy Share Image
While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
Zen is so strange as far as intellectual understanding is concerned. It looks almost absurd. That is one of the reasons why… — OSHO Copy Share Image
An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The science of meditation: it brings you to the present, it brings you to this moment. The past is a thought; it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The real religion is about the understanding that if we can only still our egos for a few seconds, we might have… — John Cleese Copy Share Image
“Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it,… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
We are uncomfortable because everything in our life keeps changing -- our inner moods, our bodies, our work, the people we love,… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
No matter what verbal space you try to enclose Zen in, it resists, and spills over ... the Zen attitude is that… — Douglas Hofstadter Copy Share Image
In the chakras, it's the heart chakra, anahata, the central chakra, three above and three below, which symbolizes happiness and love, psychic… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Though it may seem counter intuitive to our inner perfectionist, recognizing our mistakes as valuable lessons (not failures) helps us lay the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“Still your mind and become a witness to your thoughts through meditation. The more you do this, you open gaps of "no… — Sanjo Jendayi Copy Share Image
In mindfulness one is not only restful and happy, but alert and awake. Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Money is congealed energy and releasing it releases life possibilities ... Money experienced as life energy is indeed a meditation, and letting… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The so-called modern conveniences may, in fact, be extremely inconvenient - everything seems to exist as a distraction from any sort of… — Michael Finkel Copy Share Image
I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness was experienced as not holding onto the past, the future, or 'nowness:' but relaxing into the immediacy of whatever was happening. — B. Alan Wallace Copy Share Image
Studies by Andrew Newberg and others have shown that long-term practice of meditation produces significant alterations in cerebral blood flow in parts… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share Image
It is not he that reads most, but he that meditates most on Divine truth, that will prove the choicest, wisest, strongest… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Working out early in the morning is a form of meditation for me. It's practically the only hour to myself and I… — Jenna Johnson Copy Share Image
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had.… — Hugh Jackman Copy Share Image
Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding… — Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche Copy Share Image
In the Buddha's life story we see the three stages of practice: Morality comes first, then concentrated meditation, and then wisdom. And… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“Prayer is a ubiquitous practice in nearly all religions, but it is seldom understood. Prayer is not magic, meditation, or positive thinking.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Power comes from doing meditation, leading a controlled life, being conservative, not wasting all your energy on drugs, alcohol and sex and… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation,… — Ringo Starr Copy Share Image
It is easier to develop the mind through meditation than it is just through athletic practice. If you put the two together,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I do yoga daily as well. I need to start the day with some sort of physical activity. That combined with the… — Melissa Rauch Copy Share Image
Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you chant "Aum" or any mantra, do so softly and gently. Extend the sound. Focus your awareness on the sound of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
