A secular approach is not a dumbing down, it's not reductively identifying Buddhism with one or two particular techniques of meditation, but… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is to be outside the circle, the circle of death and rebirth. There is a circle inside you. If you meditate… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mere physical sitting is not enough. You have to sit carefully and attentively. Let your body and breathing sit. Let your mind… — Taizan Maezumi Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is a quiet strength and deeply rooted value which many other cultures understand and often practice better than we do. It… — Susan C. Young Copy Share Image
“Mark you, no Krishna can clear your eyes and make you look with a broader vision upon life in your march upward… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Once I was running and there was someone on the treadmill next to me who stopped running to answer a question I… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It's a kind of meditation, especially when you wake up before everyone else. And it gives my hands something to do while… — Gabriella Pierce Copy Share Image
“It is even beyond my belief to hold it abjectly. You express my thoughts and spread them by word of mouth. Then,… — Sarah Chergui Copy Share Image
We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
Contemplation is a very dangerous activity. It not only brings us face to face with God. It brings us, as well, face… — Joan D. Chittister Copy Share Image
I have a whole regimen to my day: my vocal warm-ups, my prayers, my meditations... I pray three times a day. I… — Matisyahu Copy Share Image
Use the head, use the heart, and if you can use both a tremendous revolution will happen. If you can use both… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I don't see any Stoic practice as problematic or risky, but I would advise to engage in extreme versions of the negative… — Massimo Pigliucci Copy Share Image
Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Through practice we can strengthen our capacity to incorporate mindfulness into our daily lives until it becomes a habit of mind (Roeser… — Patricia A. Jennings Copy Share Image
“Nobody can really see into the future. So see into the present. Appreciate what is in front of you right now. We… — David Cuschieri Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is paying attention to what is going on. Just look at beauty. Not just the beauty of things you see with… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you're very, very conservative and you like that sort of practice, go find a very conservative Zen master and just do… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The saints repeated this truth time and again over the centuries; that the natural state of a human being is the continuous… — Kyriacos C. Markides Copy Share Image
When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens… — James Redfield Copy Share Image
Happiness is your True Nature. Within you is Unimaginable Beauty. Your True Self is Bright and Shining this Moment. Through the clear… — Robert Adams Copy Share Image
“Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In fact, my New Year's resolution every year, and I'm Jewish so I get two New Years a year, is to meditate,… — Sheryl Sandberg Copy Share Image
You can take the kundalini from the crown center and bring it down. You can bring it up or you can stabilize… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
'You don't need to believe anything, just go into your own mind and check up, right now. Right now you can experience… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Meditation means the mind is turned back upon itself. The mind stops all the thought-waves and the world stops. Your consciousness expands.… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
There is a spirit that guides us, if we will listen. It speaks softly. In order to hear it we must still… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'm really in touch, whether it's prayer or meditation... there are so many powers greater than me in the world. I've been… — Lindsay Lohan Copy Share Image
You have to learn how to help a wounded child while still practicing mindful breathing. You should not allow yourself to get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“That which does not make one to do artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation that hurts the… — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
Every time I'm feeling anxious, I go to my little meditation corner in my room and write down whatever I'm feeling. If… — Lexi Underwood Copy Share Image
“Everything in the service involved communication,” he says with gentle exasperation. “Greeting people, the lengthy sermon, the singing. There was no emphasis… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
Awareness is the greatest alchemy there is. Just go on becoming more and more aware you will find your life changing for… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Eating mindfully is a most important practice of meditation. We can eat in a way that we restore the cookie of our… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
This Ariyan Eightfold Path, that is to say: Right view, right aim, right speech, right action, right living, right effort, right mindfulness,… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The whole art of meditation is, how to leave the personality easily, move to the center, and be not a person. Just… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
That pleasure which is at once the most pure, the most elevating and the most intense, is derived, I maintain, from the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
