How to do meditation, many people ask. Don't do anything, just go into thoughtless awareness. Try to go to the thoughtless awareness.… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
It's like an exercise: going inwards i.e. connecting with the self, then upwards towards the Supreme and then outwards (in the field… — Dr BK Satyanarayan Copy Share Image
“The awareness that we stand in the presence of the Living God is one of the most important realizations we can install… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Concentration is not thinking of one thing. On the contrary, it is excluding all thoughts, since all thoughts obstruct the sense of… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
“Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
At its core, meditation is about touching the spiritual essence that exists within us all. Our spiritual essence is not something that… — Aaron Hoopes Copy Share Image
“Our answer must consist, not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping.… — Sheng-yen Copy Share Image
Any judgment is past oriented, and existence is always herenow, life is always herenow. All judgments are coming from your past experiences,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“To live in the world of creation—to get into it and stay in it—to frequent it and haunt it—to think intently and… — Henry James Copy Share Image
“Prem means love, yoga means union - love union. And that is the goal, the target, for you. Start making as many… — Osho Copy Share Image
The ordinary man is living a very abnormal life, because his values are upside down. Money is more important than meditation; logic… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“When the mind, for want of being sufficiently reduced by recollection at our first engaging in devotion, has contracted certain bad habits… — Brother Lawrence Copy Share Image
The power of quiet is great. It generates the same feelings in everything one encounters. It vibrates with the cosmic rhythm of… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
Karate is not a game. It is not a sport. It is not even a system of self-defense. Karate is half physical… — Mas Oyama Copy Share Image
Another error is an impatience of doubt and haste to assertion without due and mature suspension of judgment. For the two ways… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
If you've ever tried meditation and didn't stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the… — Victoria Moran Copy Share Image
Stop all physical activity and sit naturally at ease. Remain silent and let sound be like an echo. Do not think about… — Tilopa Copy Share Image
“We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The soul does not condemn us. It is not the God of our fathers. Soul is the essence of existence and it… — Robert Cosmar Copy Share Image
Put your energies into creativity. Forget about anger as a problem, ignore it. Channelise your energy towards more creativity. Pour yourself into… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Be still. it takes no effort to be still; it is utterly simple. When your mind is still, you have no name,… — Gangaji Copy Share Image
“The ground of not causing harm is mindfulness, a sense of clear seeing with respect and compassion for what it is we… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“The New Man means to develop all the three dimensions of being, all the three doors to God: the head, the dimension… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
And through meditation comes wisdom - not through studying books, not through scriptures. Through scriptures one can become knowledgeable but no wise.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One of the effects of religions getting together is that they borrow from one another. An example is the growing number of… — Ninian Smart Copy Share Image
At one point I learned transcendental meditation. This was 30-something years ago. It took me back to the way that I naturally… — Alice Walker Copy Share Image
“Gary Sherman has written a truly insightful and helpful book that will positively change the lives of its readers. Although many books… — Russell Delman Copy Share Image
I have sort of a Zen body philosophy, I'm sort of like: we're one weight one day, we're one weight another day,… — Lena Dunham Copy Share Image
“I sit in meditation…and soon all sounds, and all one sees and feels, take on imminence, an immanence, as if the Universe… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
I have been teaching you all the methods of meditation. You can choose any method that suits you. There are only one… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
All your experiences, all your meditations, all your prayer, all that you do, is self-centred. It is strengthening the self, adding momentum,… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Korea's first Zen Master-poet wrote simple yet elegant poetry of the world he inhabited, both physically and spiritually, and of daily insights-a… — Sam Hamill Copy Share Image
Try vegetarianism and you will be surprised: meditation becomes far easier. Love becomes more subtle, loses its grossness - becomes more sensitive… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest creative thinkers of all time, strongly recommended the habit of meditation in the dark. He… — Wilferd Peterson Copy Share Image
You say that you are too busy to meditate. Do you have time to breathe? Meditation is your breath. Why do you… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
The point of the overall meditative path is to have Wakefulness (or Consciousness as Such) transcend and include all state-realms, so it… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
