The Rig Veda defines yoga as a union or "yoking" of the material and spiritual worlds, and it doesn't describe any physical… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
When you have grown accustomed to sitting and meditating, try to stop your thoughts. That's the bottom line in meditative practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation simply means entering into states of mind which are happiness, profound happiness, simple happiness, beautiful happiness, complicated, uncomplicated - There are… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
There's no risk in doing a lousy meditation or not meditating at all. There's no risk in being convenient and comfortable. There's… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to… — Lorraine Toussaint Copy Share Image
“Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there… — Shah Asad Rizvi Copy Share Image
I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it.… — Brett Dennen Copy Share Image
I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The Divine rejoices in your being happy. God, or the Creation, is so happy when you are happy. When you dance, sing,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
“It had been a morning of vivid images: the man-made streams, the rats in the butchers’ shops, the stacks of new-minted silver… — Ken Follett Copy Share Image
“This is like beginning to read a book. When we start, we will often be interrupted by many distractions around us. But… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is not an experience at all, because the experiencer is lost. The "I", the ego is lost. Enlightenment is more like… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
If the contemplation, even of inanimate beauty, is so delightful; if it ravishes the senses, even when the fair form is foreign… — David Hume Copy Share Image
All meditation must begin with arousing deep compassion. Whatever one does must emerge from an attitude of love and benefitting others. — Milarepa Copy Share Image
Meditation is not emptiness. That is a way of trying to talk about something that is impossible to put into words. It… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a quality that's always there. It's an illusion that there's a meditation and post-meditation period, which I always find amusing,… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The inner experience of meditation can be had without any kind of forced discipline. The outer trappings - how one sits, breathes,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
An instructor once told me that when there's resistence in your body, it's only because of the resistence in your mind. It's… — Lisa Bonet Copy Share Image
Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Aum is the most powerful of all mantras. It is good to chant Aum seven or more times before and after each… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I need the spiritual revival that comes from spending quiet time alone with Jesus in prayer and in thoughtful meditation on His… — Anne Graham Lotz Copy Share Image
Real meditation is not done by us. It is done by our Inner Pilot, the Supreme, who is constantly meditating in and… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The individual exists only in your imagination. It is just an illusion. When the Atma is one without a second, when the… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
The power chakra is the navel center. The center of balance is the heart chakra; it's the center of our being. The… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
At the end of the day I take a hot shower, even if it's been a very long day. It's my meditation… — Shira Haas Copy Share Image
That is one of the problems with the Western mind hurry. People want everything immediately. They think in terms of instant coffee,… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
The directions for meditation that Sri Krishna gives are very exacting. He tells Arjuna exactly how to get past all the things… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
When you meditate, you are shifting your state of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Whatever you focus on during meditation, you psychically travel to and touch. In meditation, when you think of somebody, you actually go… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Doing Kashaya[anger, pride, deceit and greed] means to stumble. If artadhyan (adverse meditation) and raudradhyan (wrathful meditation) occurs, it is called stumbling.” — Dada Bhagwan Copy Share Image
“Everyone has their own stuff. And it's imperative to recognize that it will bubble up more as mindfulness is developed. It's like… — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Whenever I sit with a bowl of soup before me, listening to the murmur that penetrates like the distant song of an… — Junichiro Tanizaki Copy Share Image
Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
You must constantly check that you are meditating properly, and not become, what Clint Eastwood refers to as, "a legend in your… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image