The key to maintaining your inspiration in the day-to-day work of meditation practice is to approach it as play—a happy opportunity to… — Thanissaro Bhikkhu Copy Share Image
There are monasteries in Japan where they teach Zen with rules, more rules than you can imagine, and you might feel comfortable… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Just your laughter will be enough to prevent the war. Your celebration, your dance, will be enough to prevent the war. Your… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you back one or two sleep cycles every time you do it. Do it every day and it goes quite… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Zen practice is about not getting high on anything and in so doing getting high on absolutely everything. We then find that… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
For me, wellbehaved books with neat plots and worked-out endings seem somewhat quaint in the face of the largely incoherent reality of… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The mind we have when we practice zazen is the great mind: we don't try to see anything; we stop conceptual thinking;… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The points or tips of the chakras, where they connect to the main power current, are called the roots or the hearts… — Barbara Brennan Copy Share Image
“Something can be moving in one direction, smoothly, swiftly, something like a ball, or, oh, say, A LIFE, and then a bat… — Nick Lake Copy Share Image
“In fact, being mindful during tasks that you usually may find boring or even unpleasant can transform those tasks into something more… — Shea Matthew Fisher Copy Share Image
Who is unhappy with little, won't be with much; who doesn't appreciate the small won't be able to take care of the… — Laozi Copy Share Image
People who do not see their choices do not believe they have choices. They tend to respond automatically, blindly influenced by their… — Gil Fronsdal Copy Share Image
“One of the best—and most easily available—ways we can become healthier and happier is through mindfulness and meditation. Every element of well-being… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“surgery can help to remove a damaged organ but only meditation and quiet time can remove emotions like anger and fear to… — Teresa Spelman Copy Share Image
The wise man will be as happy as circumstances permit, and if he finds the contemplation of the universe painful beyond a… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything—not about winning or losing—but about ceasing to struggle and… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in… — Carla Hall Copy Share Image
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one needs to know that you've shut the world out and are meditating as you stroll down the street. Twenty minutes… — Sarah Ban Breathnach Copy Share Image
“While there is nothing wrong with practicing martial arts, meditating, reading and studying, or even eating pie, excess in any of these… — Bohdi Sanders Copy Share Image
Sometimes the most important thing in a whole day is the rest we take between two deep breaths, or the turning inwards… — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
The high priests and priestesses taught the children the secret meditation techniques, along with methods and ways of living that would increase… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
“We only know Him in so far as we are known by Him, and our contemplation of Him is a participation in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the… — Sinclair Lewis Copy Share Image
“It is as if in creating us God asked a question, and in awakening us to contemplation He answered the question, so… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Stealth Meditation If you start to feel overwhelmed, take a quick, centering moment—as short as following three breaths—to connect with a deeper… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you… — George Harrison Copy Share Image
The Dalai Lama would say that meditation is something that can help everyone. But he's aware that it can be misused or… — Pico Iyer Copy Share Image
It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Rather than jumping from one shallow happiness to another shallow happiness and wasting your life, it is better to use sadness as… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the key that opens the door to all the knowledge and understanding in life—certainly to our current lives and also… — Lisa Williams Copy Share Image
Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
“What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, “respond” rather than simply “react.”… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“At the moment of enlightenment, everything is dropped—body, mind, all states, all things—everything. At that moment, there is no separate entity that… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
