“There is nothing passive about mindfulness. One might even say that it expresses a specific kind of passion—a passion for discerning what… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
“Creativity is not any accumulated knowledge, coming from past to the present. The stage of creation is a spontaneous flash of intelligence,… — Gian Kumar Copy Share Image
“Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“It's very helpful to realize that being here, sitting in meditation, doing simple everyday things like working, walking outside, talking with people,… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
This all-pervading power is the power of divine love. It thinks. It organizes. It plans. It loves. It is the one which… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
At the heart of every human being or soul there is a spiritual energy, pure, of peace, love, truth and happiness without… — DRBKSatyanarayan Copy Share Image
“The heart has all the answers. Try it now. Put your hands upon your heart. Ask a question that you already know… — Kate McGahan Copy Share Image
“Christ was an ordinary man who upon the attainment of absolute divinity or Nirvana or Samadhi became a better version of himself.… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
The total amount of suffering per year in the natural world is beyond all decent contemplation. During the minute that it takes… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of… — India.Arie Copy Share Image
We think that we have to do so many things and it's unfortunate, entire modern society is besotted with the do-ables, we… — Maya Tiwari Copy Share Image
One does not contemplate it like a picture. The idea of contemplation disappears completely. Simply take note that it's a bottle rack,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely… — Jabari Asim Copy Share Image
Self-Enquiry is not asking you to believe or to trust - it is putting a mirror in front of you and asking… — Mooji Copy Share Image
“The key to inner freedom, bliss, and self-realization is learning to hear and understand the language of the heart. To do this,… — Katherine Parker Copy Share Image
My ethics, my sense of morality, my work ethic, my sense of compassion for suffering humanity, all of that comes directly out… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
“Martin Hart: Can I ask you something? You're a Christian, yeah? Rustin Cohle: No. Martin Hart: Well, whadaya got the cross for,… — Nic Pizzolatto Copy Share Image
We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the… — Longchenpa Copy Share Image
“The Patañjali yoga system is called aṣṭāṅga-yoga. Sometimes impersonalists pollute the Patañjali yoga system because they are monists. Patañjali describes that the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think, were I just a little rougher made, I would go altogether to the woods—to my work entirely, and solitude,… — Mary Oliver Copy Share Image
“It’s not that the negative thoughts and feelings don’t arise, but when you meditate regularly, they are allowed to just be there… — Louise Watson Copy Share Image
Meditation is your awakening. The moment you awake, sleep disappears and with it all the dreams, all the projections, all expectations, all… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Just go into the room, sit in the centre of the room, open the doors and windows, and see who comes to… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
There is a word in Old English which belongs wholly to that civilization - "dustsceawung," meaning contemplation of dust. It is a… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
The zazen I speak of is not learning meditation. It is simply the Dharma gate of repose and bliss, the practice-realization of… — Dogen Copy Share Image
When you have learned, through discipline, to simplify your life, and so practiced the mindfulness of meditation, and through it loosened the… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Invisible Beasts is a strange and beautiful meditation on love and seeing, a hybrid of fantasy and field guide, novel and essay,… — Anthony Doerr Copy Share Image
“Science experiments have found that people who practice meditation release significantly lower doses of cortisol, known as the stress hormone. This is… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“Nurses came to his house to work with Morrie's withering legs.. bending them back and forth as if pumping water from a… — Mitch Albom Copy Share Image
So silently, peacefully, without hurry, without any tension, without any anguish, move into yourself instantly. It is urgent. Unless meditation becomes urgent… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control. This is meditation. Anything else is actually a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“We know Existence, because we are existence. We know Truth, because we are truth. We know Life, because we are life itself.… — Robert Cosmar Copy Share Image
There is a common misunderstanding that during meditation the mind should never engage in processing thoughts. It is okay in meditation for… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
Contemplation: I read a lot of books on philosophy and religion, and try to keep always growing in that part of my… — Kimbra Copy Share Image
For that, one has to drop all the masks, one has to risk many things, particularly respectability. That is a bribe by… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Man in his madness doesn't realize that God has made him from amoeba to this stage for some purpose. There is a… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“The process of applying Mindfulness Burnout Prevention (MBP) in the workplace or any environment has a much more far-reaching effect than simply… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
Contemplation is life itself, fully awake, fully active, and fully aware that it is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I should like to be the landscape which I am contemplating, I should like this sky, this quiet water to think themselves… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
