Harmonizing opposites by going back to their source is the distinctive quality of the Zen attitude, the Middle Way: embracing contradictions, making… — Taisen Deshimaru Copy Share Image
“The master never counseled slavish belief. ‘Words are only shells,’ he said. ‘Win conviction of God’s presence through your own joyous contact… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
“Through practising body scan awareness meditation, we can greatly reduce the detrimental effects of stress and make our working lives pleasant and… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
Walk so that your footprints bear only the marks of peaceful joy and complete freedom. To do this you have to learn… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
To meditate with humility, consider existence. It is infinite. You are finite. You are a finite portion of infinite existence. Let this… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is nothing but a way to learn how to do a thing totally - once you have learnt, make your whole… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mindfulness, as defined by the Buddha, means awareness of incessant change, of arising and vanishing, inside of your own body, which is… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
You start meditation as an average human being who is filled with vagueness and not much purpose or definition, who is controlled… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Traveling around, it can get very stressful sometimes, and I found yoga, thank God, like a couple of years ago. I went… — Valentina Zelyaeva Copy Share Image
“Scientific discovery always arises out of meditation, not out of mind. And whenever something comes from the mind, it is not science… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The present mood in which they sat relaxed was nothing more than the relief of two people coming back to a bombed… — Rosamond Lehmann Copy Share Image
Prayer changes from entreaty to thanksgiving, and meditation on the divine truths of faith fills the heart with a sense of jubilation… — Gregory Palamas Copy Share Image
True love has nothing to do with liking someone, agreeing with him or her or being compatible. It is a love of… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
If your love leads to misery, it was from the ego. If your love leads to a beautiful benediction, a blessedness, it… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Our technological society has no longer any place in it for wisdom that seeks truth for its own sake, that seeks the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Contemplation, as it has come to be understood in the Christian tradition, is a return to the paradisiacal state of union with… — William Shannon Copy Share Image
“I don’t think Hawk or I are operating on emotional whim. It’s just the way we experience things sometimes needs to get… — Robert B. Parker Copy Share Image
“Maybe the point of life (and youth, once it was over), was to elevate yourself, through time and reflection, into something worthy… — Matthew Gallaway Copy Share Image
The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
Buddha activity doesn't mean radiating light and elevating yourself up a thousand feet in the air. That's not the point. The point… — Tenzin Palmo Copy Share Image
Retaining our capacity for reason is common sense, but definite conclusions and beliefs keep us from seeing life as it really is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The Path emphasizes that self-restraint, self-discipline, and the practice of mindfulness and meditation can help put an end to suffering.” — Michael Williams Copy Share Image
“The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Our life interferes, our mind, our thoughts. Meditating is not just a practice of asserting will and learning to control the mind,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Anything that appears and disappears cannot actually be you because it is being observed by you. By removing the attention from these… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
“The mind travels more freely on this limitless expanse, the contemplation of which elevates the soul, gives ideas of the infinite, the… — Gustave Flaubert Copy Share Image
And so we realize that human beings have to be transformed and have to enter into a higher state of awareness, through… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Meditation is the alchemy of transforming. The unconscious into the conscious. It gives you a tremendous power, Far greater than anger, greed… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
When you meditate or pray... both are forms of meditation... you give up control and find the answer and you open yourself… — Erin Gray Copy Share Image
Breathing is meditation; life is a meditation. You have to breathe in order to live, so breathing is how you get in… — Willow Smith Copy Share Image
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
It's not just self defense, it's about...self control, body discipline, and mind discipline...and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's… — Elvis Presley Copy Share Image
In my experience, psychotherapy at its best is like dual meditation - it's like a container in which you can be compassionate… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
When you go into the planes of light, all of the incorrect ways of seeing and understanding life that you pick up… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Just behind the darkness of closed eyes shines the light of God. When you behold that light in meditation, hold onto it… — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Why is it when you start to meditate you stop at a certain point? Because you're tied to the world, you have… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I get into certain yoga positions at times, when I'm working out and for exercises. I use a little of it in… — John Astin Copy Share Image
“Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have… — Dōgen Copy Share Image
“What is constant? Is the mind anything more than a conglomeration of thoughts? Where is the mind apart from thought? If there… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine… — John Woolman Copy Share Image