“Many look at the blessings in their lives—money, talent, love, abundance, and so on—and say, “I must be one of the chosen… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Meditation is not something you do once and you are done with. It is something that is like breathing, like blood circulating.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Eliot's understanding of poetic epistemology is a version of Bradley's theory, outlined in our second chapter, that knowing involves immediate, relational, and… — Jewel Spears Brooker Copy Share Image
“I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles,… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
A line runs from the meditations of the heart to the words of the mouth. The meditations are not clear to us… — Richard Mitchell Copy Share Image
“The Zen Monk Kyō Has Changed His Name to Mujū Dōryū. I Wrote This Verse to Celebrate The Great Prospects That Lie… — Baisao Copy Share Image
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“feel like if I can’t have a “good” quiet time—one with prayer, meditation, Bible reading, and a devotional reading—then why bother? So… — Kathi Lipp Copy Share Image
“When one of the emperors of China asked Bodhidharma (the Zen master who brought Zen from India to China) what enlightenment was,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“Even though some of you may experience some peace when you sit in meditation, don’t be in a hurry to congratulate yourselves.… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“This is why most people do not stick with a contemplative discipline for very long; we have heard all sorts of talk… — Martin Laird Copy Share Image
You sort of have that meditation, that happy place I go to in my brain. The happy place may be an island… — John Collins Copy Share Image
“In this book, you’ll naturally look for common habits and recommendations, and you should. Here are a few patterns, some odder than… — Timothy Ferriss Copy Share Image
“What value is there to reading one, three, or more chapters of Scripture only to find that after you’ve finished, you can’t… — Donald S. Whitney Copy Share Image
“The hilarious irony is that Buddhists - who deny the existence of the self - are the most self-obsessed people you can… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
Science is now documenting that it's not the objects of meditation that are important, it's the process of paying attention to them… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Witnessing can be called the seed and enlightenment can be called the flowers. But begin from witnessing, and then it starts growing.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We've just done a five-day retreat at the Chopra centre and people who went to the meditation retreat saw their anti-ageing enzyme… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Living in the present moment or commonly know as Mindfulness is being aware and conscious of your surroundings. From awareness, we evolve… — Suresh Devnani Copy Share Image
How, then, shall a Christian bear fruit? By efforts and struggles to obtain that which is freely given; by meditations on watchfulness,… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
“Seeing a problem clearly does not prevent you from taking action, he explained. Acceptance is not passivity. Sometimes we are justifiably displeased.… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Within your mind, there are hardly any lines at all. All its contents flow into each other, sensations becoming thoughts, feelings, desires,… — Rick Hanson Copy Share Image
“Meditation should be on the same list as brushing your teeth, sleeping and eating. Meditation is an addition to your routine, not… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation does not imply only the development of single-pointed concentration, sitting in some corner doing nothing. Meditation is an alert state of… — Thubten Yeshe Copy Share Image
Thoughts can create such a barrier that even if you are standing before a beautiful flower, you will not be able to… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“We must approach our meditation realizing that 'grace,' 'mercy,' and 'faith' are not permanent inalienable possessions which we gain by our efforts… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I actually started meditating more when I moved to New York, which has helped me a lot. The energy is so much… — Kissey Copy Share Image
Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“When we practice a yoga posture designed to challenge our balance, the use of a gazing point or drishti is a most… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“Every single iceberg filled me with feelings of sadness and wonder. Not thoughts of sadness and wonder, mind you, because thoughts require… — Maria Semple Copy Share Image
“This listening is the art of meditation, in the learning of which we come to a place of transition where truth leaves… — Joel S. Goldsmith Copy Share Image
“7. Calmness of Mind. The Yogi breathing above mentioned is fit rather for physical exercise than for mental balance, and it will… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
“Learning to meditate helped too. When the Beatles visited India in 1968 to study Transcendental Meditation at the ashram of Maharishi Mahesh… — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“By meditating, we´re learning to disengage ourselves from habitual clinging and disperse the defilements and obscurations that hinder our capacity to serve… — Lama Surya Das Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is a state wherein one is totally aware in any situation and so always able to respond appropriately. Yet one is… — Philip Kapleau Copy Share Image
Mediation and reconciliation work is about a profound quest for justice and social transformation. But at the same time, they are about… — Hizkias Assefa Copy Share Image
“Learning to leave his mind in meditation could be compared to snorkelling, which is breathing with his face under water. Which is… — Matt Padwick Copy Share Image
“The last glow of sundown dims away. Stars appear in the east. Night encloses us. The ocean seems to enlarge. When you’re… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“..., its unity, unfolding through all the panels, would have given the illusion of an endless whole, of water without a horizon… — Claude Roger-Marx Copy Share Image
