“An awareness of alternatives at the early stages of learning a skill gives a conditional quality to the learning, which, again, increases… — Ellen J. Langer Copy Share Image
Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is passive meditation. It is passive because your energy and your attention are divided between your actions and your practice, your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I recommended meditation to every person as a foundation for living healthier, being a more loving person, and leading a less stressful… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
There is a true Buddha in family life; there is a real Tao in everyday activities. If people can be sincere and… — Zicheng Hong Copy Share Image
I make sure to meditate at least twice a day. I have migraines, and transcendental meditation is hugely helpful in combating them. — Jessica St. Clair Copy Share Image
“The world stopped spinning. The wind paused in a spell of meditation. My heart sped past the sound barrier. The moment was… — Lindsey Lanza Copy Share Image
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part… — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
Think for a moment of the great agents and engines of our civilization, and then think what shadowy ideas they all once… — Edwin Hubbel Chapin Copy Share Image
Meditation is nothing but withdrawing all the barriers .. thoughts, emotions, sentiments .. which criteria wall between you and existence. The moment… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our… — Alphonsus Liguori Copy Share Image
Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Controlling the position of one's body and keeping a straight back are not contemplation, but can in fact become an obstacle to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The way to develop inner peace through meditation begins with the recognition that the destroyer of inner peace is not some external… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The thing about Zen is that it pushes contradictions to their ultimate limit where one has to choose between madness and innocence.… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Meditation allows us to free ourselves from burdensome habits, drop the harassing weightiness of our snakeskin, and transform our life into a… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like… — Ari Graynor Copy Share Image
Its not just about competition: it's my life, my lifestyle. So I train every day, and I feel very good, because sometimes… — Lyoto Machida Copy Share Image
“Certainly work is not always required of a man. There is such a thing as a sacred idleness, the cultivation of which… — George Mac Donald Copy Share Image
Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
“Remember, whenever you have two things, two alternatives, choose the new one, choose the harder, choose the one in which more awareness… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The point here is to make your mindfulness habit tiny and do it consistently. It's better than starting with a bang and… — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the… — Forest Whitaker Copy Share Image
“I tell my students not to be frightened; in the history of Buddhism-for 2,500 years-no one has broken or fractured a leg… — Guo Jun Copy Share Image
Contemplation is that condition of alert passivity, in which the soul lays itself open to the divine Ground within and without, the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints… — Joseph Smith, Jr Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness helps us to focus on one goal at a time. It helps us to be more relaxed, patience and compassionate towards… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“Miss Brinklow, however, was not yet to be sidetracked. "What do the lamas do?" she continued. "They devote themselves, madam, to contemplation… — James Hilton Copy Share Image
Collaboration is far more powerful than competition. Do not think that only if you are pushed to the wall, you will do… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Our hearts are the shrine; that is where God should be installed. Our good thoughts are the flowers to worship Him. Good… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“When I get out of this hospital, you and I are going to sit down and have a very long chat, Susannah,… — Meg Cabot Copy Share Image
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into the deeper part of our being. At that time, we are able… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Sometimes you need to sit lonely on the floor in a quiet room in order to hear your own voice and not… — Charlotte Eriksson Copy Share Image
During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
I can spend years studying and being in therapy and having a very analytic spiritual meditation practice, but without the emotional component,… — Moby Copy Share Image
You gain power through practicing meditation and concentration. You gain power by doing anything you like that makes you feel good. You… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The discovery of truth, by slow progressive meditation, is wisdom. - Intuition of truth, not preceded by perceptible meditation, is genius. — Johann Kaspar Lavater Copy Share Image
All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
