Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
If something controls you in a way that puzzles you, think of it as a mystery. Mysteries are best approached by closing… — Bernie Siegel Copy Share Image
“The beautiful thing about meditation is that it allows you to access that cool guy or girl inside of you that's waiting… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to do this for some time,… — Mooji Copy Share Image
Millions of people have tried meditation and dropped out of it because they took it very seriously. Religion has been thought to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In meditation, once you are gone in, you are gone in. Then, even when you resurrect you are a totally different person.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just as we believe by faith that the greatest happiness of the next life consists simply in the contemplation of this divine… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I put my children first, but I always keep my obligations or my commitments. You really have to do some internal work… — Rachel Roy Copy Share Image
Silence and stillness are not states and therefore cannot be produced or created. Silence is the non-state in which all states arise… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And… — Vivek Murthy Copy Share Image
“The human brain is incredible in its capacity to heal and rewire itself. The human brain can be shaped and trained to… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
“I saw that the most important thing I had to do was to give myself to the reading of the word of… — George Mueller Copy Share Image
“The distinction between acquisition and discovery may seem like hairsplitting, but it is important to see that . . . the contemplative… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
“But, like all indulgences that are valued not just for their product but for their process, the sento will never entirely disappear.… — Barry Eisler Copy Share Image
“When we sit in meditation, we are closer than usual to the world as it is. By simply bringing body, breath, and… — Andrew Furst Copy Share Image
Climbing is the lazy man's way to enlightenment. It forces you to pay attention, because if you don't, you won't succeed, which… — Duncan Ferguson Copy Share Image
“Spirituality is not just about sitting in a room encountering a mystical god in meditation or about seeing God in a sunset.… — Diana Butler Bass Copy Share Image
“A Chinese Zen master[FN#230] tells us that the method of instruction adopted by Zen may aptly be compared with that of an… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
Take a minute. Pause. Stop doing, and simply be...This moment. Think, here, now. This moment will never occur again. This moment is… — A D Kruk Copy Share Image
“Nothing could be more alien to contemplation than the cogito ergo sum of Descartes. “I think, therefore I am.” This is the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“1. Do all meditation work with open eyes, with the Buddhic smile. 2. Keep attention inside on the No-thought state and refrain… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“In order to benefit yogis and yoginis who are applying themselves diligently in the preliminary practices and guru yoga, like rivers of… — Nida Chenagtsang Copy Share Image
Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Synaptic downscaling during the meditation leads to a reduced energy demand of the brain. Meditation can provide synaptic re-normalization. Meditation represents a… — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
When you are practicing zazen, do not try to stop your thinking. Let it stop by itself. If something comes into your… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
Delacroix, Wagner, Baudelaire - all great theorists, bent on dominating other minds by sensuous means. Their one dream was to create the… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
For what St. Augustine said is true, that one can sing nothing worthy of God save what one has received from Him.… — William Romaine Copy Share Image
Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research… — Abhinavagupta Copy Share Image
“Just as faith teaches us that the sovereign felicity of the other life consists in the contemplation of the divine majesty alone,… — René Descartes Copy Share Image
Meditation is enjoying oneself, just sitting silently doing nothing: happy, joyous without any reason, because all reasons come from outside. You meet… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“The force of a visualization (which is a chain of intended and purposeful thoughts) can help you tap into the right energy… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is being aware of yourself, others, and your surroundings in the moment. When consciously and kindly focusing awareness on life as… — Sue Thoele Copy Share Image
“If we harm someone else, we’re inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I think that Jean Houston has broken through to a new understanding of the sense and uses of inward-turned contemplation-a n understanding… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“The role of meditation in making the mind calm and balanced is more important than any other technique or method. Therefore you… — Pratap C. Singhal Copy Share Image
If Zen is approached with the usual mental attitude, it will seem quite incomprehensible. Our average Western intellectuality would consider its paradoxical… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
“On a physical level, water is often called the universal solvent because of its ability to dissolve almost anything at the molecular… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“[On scientist Carl Friedrich Gauss] [Carl Friedrich] Gauss told his friend Rudolf Wagner, a professor of biology at Gottingen University, that he… — Gerhard Falk Copy Share Image
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