“Shin-shin-toitsu-do includes a wide variety of stretching exercises, breathing methods, forms of seated meditation and moving meditation, massage-like healing arts, techniques of… — H.E. Davey Copy Share Image
You must continue to go back to the beginning, to the foundation, and question the foundation. Even once you‘ve reached Samadhi you… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
Meditation opens the mind to the greatest mystery that takes place daily and hourly; it widens the heart so that it may… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Meditation is like going to the bottom of the sea, where everything is calm and tranquil. On the surface of the sea… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“The incredible benefits of practising and applying mindfulness and self-compassion in the workplace are being increasingly recognised by human resource professionals as… — Christopher Dines Copy Share Image
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices… — Jean Arp Copy Share Image
Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
“I should have learned mindfulness, and it’s too late now because it’s no good learning it when you’re already in crisis: you… — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Contemplation, on the contrary, is the experiential grasp of reality as subjective, not so much “mine” (which would signify “belonging to the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The navel region is the centre of the vital. It is from here that the movements of the vital rise upward. Above… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all;… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Mind can only desire, and each desire is going to be frustrated. Instead of bringing more meditation, it will bring you more… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce.… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Although the repetition of a word or phrase is a preparatory practice and is itself not meditation, choosing a word or phrase… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
Krishna says meditate and you'll see the various ephemeral worlds, the various ephemeral beings, all of them going through the same thing;… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Gentleness can be developed with simple thoughts. First, appreciate who you are and make friends with yourself. Look at what you can… — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
“Yoga practice is the most natural thing in the world. The body was designed to move in dynamic ways, and the lungs… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
For dignity of character, consciousness is needed, not conscience and that's the function of meditation. Meditation does not give you any character… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Go deep into meditation. And by meditation I mean awareness, watchfulness, witnessing. It is only through meditation that the inner light begins.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“If the object of meditation were something concrete, something solid and graspable - an image or a statue or a dot on… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
How extraordinary it is to be here at all. Awareness of death can jolt us awake to the sensuality of existence. Breath… — Stephen Batchelor Copy Share Image
“Give yourself an hour a day, half for exercise and half for meditation. If you give meditation a good college try and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation is making research into yourself, and into the subtler fields of activity. Day after day we culture our minds with the… — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi Copy Share Image
I see a Reiki healer from time to time. She sits on my bed, and I lie in her lap. She puts… — Hari Nef Copy Share Image
You cannot see clearly, because you are so full of expectations, hopes,desires. Your eyes are covered with many layers of dust: you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“After my first experience via yoga, I became incredibly focused on experiencing that sense of stillness again. The stillness that reminded me… — Russell Simmons Copy Share Image
Happiness, whether consisting in pleasure or virtue, or both, is more often found with those who are highly cultivated in their minds… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“At times, life presents us with challenging conditions, and trying to navigate them can be utterly overwhelming. Since our most powerful asset… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing,… — Clarissa Pinkola Estés Copy Share Image
Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was… — Flume Copy Share Image
I could say I believe in every drop of rain that . . . Well, I believe life is a Zen koan,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
Men We Reaped is a fiercely felt meditation on the value of life that at once reminds us of its infinite worth… — Peter Ho Davies Copy Share Image
“Experts touted confrontational "encounter," gestalt therapy, bioenergetics, "sensitivity training," meditation, massage, breathing, drugs, and even easy recreational sex. Any or all would… — James T. Patterson Copy Share Image
“There is a remarkable picture called 'Contemplation.' It shows a forest in winter and on a roadway through the forest, in absolute… — Fyodor Dostoyevsky Copy Share Image
When we sit in meditation and hear a sound, we think, 'Oh, that sound's bothering me.' If we see it like this,… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
“Thoughts that you do not let go leave an imprint on your mind. That imprint is the residue. Meditation is the process… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
“If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and… — Tobe Hanson Copy Share Image
“Just like two pieces of wood can be rubbed together to produce fire and the same fire later consumes them both, intellect… — Om Swami Copy Share Image
Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by… — Donna Farhi Copy Share Image
