“Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“If you live well, you will be shocked and surprised to see how, at the end of your life, it all turns… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
You can't throw your ego away, but you can use its innate desire to experience that which is beyond itself to give… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Children, even if we lose a million dollars, we can recover it. If we lose one second, we cannot get it back.… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Silent our body is a sacred temple, A place to connect with other people. Can't we just stay any younger? Really, we… — Ana Claudia Antunes Copy Share Image
“Relaxation exercises, breathing techniques, meditations, guided imagery techniques, and visualizations are simply the tools used to experience yoga nidra. A” — Julie T. Lusk Copy Share Image
I think a lot of contemplation happens in bathtubs. It does for me. Nothing like a hot bath to ease the tension… — Sarah McLachlan Copy Share Image
“One of the most difficult things to remember is to remember to remember. We forget that we live in a body with… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. More than this nature cannot do.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Silence must be comprehended as not solely the absence of sound. It is the natural environment for serenity and contemplation. Life without… — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
If you decide to go on a Buddhist path, you have to be careful if you start mixing a lot of different… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
You have to learn humility. First of all you have to be humble people. Unless and until you have a large heart… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“The essence of meditation practice in Dzogchen is encapsulated by these four points: ▪ When one past thought has ceased and a… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The universe is wired with the electricity of God, & each of us is a lamp. It doesn't matter the size or… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
It’s perfectly natural for me to sit down and talk about meditating and spiritual practice with my friends. But then I realize,… — Moby Copy Share Image
The truth which can be actualized after Self Realization is that you are not this body, this mind, this conditioning from the… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“When the mindfulness of a samurai swordsman fails, he loses his life. When we lose mindfulness in daily life, something similar happens.… — Upasaka Culadasa Copy Share Image
Zen is not “attained” by mirror-wiping mediation, but by “self-forgetfulness in the existential 'present' of life here and now.” We do not… — Bruce Lee Copy Share Image
Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
With yoga, not only your body should become flexible - your mind and emotions, and above all your consciousness should become flexible. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
Once you jump in the ocean of love there's nothing to be done, just to be enjoyed, every wave of it, every… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Beyond speech and mind, Into the river of ever-effulgent Light My heart dives. Today thousands of doors, closed for millennia, Are opened… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I meditate in the morning and before I go to sleep. These are usually the main times because, before I go to… — Adam Yauch Copy Share Image
There is a large difference between spacing out in the lower occult astral planes, weird, junky, fuzzy energy, and meditation. Meditation is… — Frederick Lenz 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
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
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
“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
“The Appreciation Meditation is the first step towards allowing and encouraging your inner nature to come to the surface of your mind.” — Gyalwa Dokhampa Copy Share Image
I've been practicing modalities of Eastern philosophy since about 1972. What I've learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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
The experience of getting my Kriya, which is the meditation process that I do, was very powerful for me - though, as… — Mariel Hemingway Copy Share Image
“Master the ability to quieten your mind, and your thoughts, and understand your emotions. Meditate, cultivate mindfulness and awareness, be in the… — Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley 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
