A well known Los Angeles newspaper referred to a small group of gentlemen who live up on a mountain and practice Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I am a bit of a health nut. I really like to mix it up a lot. I do a lot of… — Jessica McNamee Copy Share Image
Initially the student, in some traditions, is given a mantra, a particular word of power to focus on. While thoughts are cascading… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“living a Zen lifestyle is just something that helps you to experience your life in real-time while helping to keep your feet… — Alexis G. Roldan Copy Share Image
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life… — Helene Cixous Copy Share Image
For the first few years, it's most beneficial to meditate on the heart chakra. The heart chakra, called the anahata chakra in… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Zen is the way of complete self-realization; a living human being who follows the way of Zen can attain satori and then… — Zenkei Shibayama Copy Share Image
The development of our minds and our destination in future lives is in our hands. No one else can help us. It… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I'm naturally a graceful human being. So meditation helps me stay grounded. When we're silent for a moment, it helps us to… — Giancarlo Esposito Copy Share Image
An astonishing book. In compelling language, both homely and elegant, Young Men and Fire miraculously combines a fascinating primer on fires and… — Timothy Foote Copy Share Image
“He kept coming back to the silence. It was so big. And surprising. Even when a donkey brayed somewhere in the same… — Matt Padwick Copy Share Image
In the beginning this is bound to happen. You have been sitting on the lid that covers your repressions, and you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Most sacraments are acts of breathtaking simplicity: a simple prayer, a sip of wine and a piece of bread, a single breath… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
“When you ignore your belly, you become homeless. You spend your life trying to erase your own existence. Apologizing for yourself. Feeling… — Geneen Roth Copy Share Image
When the mind is relaxed, no longer making an effort, when it is quiet for just a few seconds, then the problem… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Basically, if the mind stays in the present, it's impossible to worry. Upon careful consideration, it becomes clear that human beings are… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The battle is always between those who desire to be happy in the world and those who desire to be free -… — Edward Weiss Copy Share Image
* Recognize that God is with you. * Acknowledge God knows what He's doing. * Search for God's will: the path He… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
That was at the Michigan Womyn's Music Festival in about 1989. There were 6,000 women there, and they were out in a… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
I go to the Himalayas after every film. I go alone. I go to the interiors, to the villages. Being there itself… — Rajinikanth Copy Share Image
By the time the Egyptian civilization had begun to flourish, the earth's aura had already become so dense it was impossible to… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect… — Tara Brach Copy Share Image
The present moment is the only aperture through which the soul can pass out of time into eternity, through which grace can… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
On one level, life is effervescent and active. On another level, it is absolutely still. The inner stillness nourishes the outer activity. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
There is no need to believe or disbelieve your thoughts - just don't enter anything. They don't distract you - you get… — Mooji Copy Share Image
The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves, is to remain ignorant by not having… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to… — Hannah More Copy Share Image
I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life. .… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right… — Yogaswami Copy Share Image
In True Meditation, we're in the body as a means to transcend it. It is paradoxical that the greatest doorway to the… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
The mind remembers only certain things. The body remembers everything. The information it carries goes back to the beginning of existence. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
You might be anything. You might be having any organization, you might be having any position in life, you might be any… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
When you're desireless you are happy because you are never disappointed, you are never nervous. So to be desireless doesn't mean that… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Shedule it as you… — Roy Davis Copy Share Image
I have done various yoga and meditation courses and Kriya yoga as well. This has enabled me to get rid of my… — Tanushree Dutta Copy Share Image
It is everyone's right to achieve this state of ones evolution and everything necessary is already inbuilt. But as I respect your… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
You can continue your practice, you can exercise kindness, you can practice meditation whether you're in a prison or a millionaire's house,… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
“In meditation practice, we build the energy of awareness until it grows powerful enough to see entirely different levels of reality.” — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
I went on a meditation retreat. In 10 or so days, I spent about a hundred hours meditating, observing 'noble silence' the… — Quentin S. Crisp Copy Share Image
The more you establish quiet time and mediation as part of your daily discipline, the more you go through the rotation into… — Stuart Wilde Copy Share Image
