To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“During the summer I meditated outside in nature. Listening to the wind with the ears are like listening to mere noise, but… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“The world's an incessant transformation, and to meditate is awareness, with no clinging to, no working on, the mind. It is a… — Robert Gray Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the alchemist of the soul. It transforms disappointment into acceptance; betrayal into forgiveness; scarcity into abundance; loneliness into self acceptance;… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Milton Katselas said, "Who are you to look down your nose at Anna Magnani and Maureen Stapleton? Who do you think you… — Beth Grant Copy Share Image
As in any machine, all the wires must be connected to the mains through one main wire. In the same way, you… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
“The salvation of man is through love and in love. I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“If you cannot recollect yourself continuously, do so once a day at least, in the morning or in the evening. In the… — Thomas à Kempis Copy Share Image
“He showed me a sketch he'd drawn once during meditation. It was an androgynous human figure, standing up, hands clasped in prayer.… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
What meditation does is allow you to actually survive these emotions as opposed to compartmentalizing and having them come up and make… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
Be quick to do good. If you are slow, The mind, delighting in mischief, Will catch you. Turn away from mischief. Again… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“When you eat food you never say, "Let it be inner." When you are thirsty and you drink water, you never say,… — Osho Copy Share Image
“The nap also has a deserved reputation for its spiritual benefits. The founders of the great world religions were dedicated nappers, and… — Oliver Benjamin Copy Share Image
“Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre,… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
“Terrible things could have happened to any one of us. We never will know what might have happened to us when we… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
If you want to observe anger in its entirety, you will have to observe it alone, in the privacy of your room.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The person who is free of sexuality, whose sexuality has become a transformed phenomenon, is also free of money, is also free… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“The Pāli term for "feeling" is vedanā , derived from the verb vedeti , which means both "to feel" and "to know".… — Anālayo Copy Share Image
Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which… — Paul Brunton Copy Share Image
Mind is elusive, you cannot hold it in your hand. You cannot force it into a test-tube. The only way to know… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
One of the basic things we should avoid is to criticize others. Better to criticize yourself. Criticize yourself, criticize your brothers and… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
We in America should see that no man is ever given, no matter how gradually or how noble and excellent the man,… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
By meditation we try to slow down the mechanism of projections. If the mechanism is slowed down and even for a single… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Sit still with me in the shade of these green trees, which have no weightier thought than the withering of their leaves… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“deathAloneness has been my constant companion in life. I lost early the people that I loved: first when my young and unmarried… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Within each being exists the voice of wisdom: a quiet and unassuming voice that longs to guide us out of darkness, to… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Now, stopping thought is only the beginning. As Brahmananda, who was a disciple of Sri Ramakrishna, once remarked: The inner life begins… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“The windmill doesn’t try to control the wind or demand that it blow in another direction. It simply surrenders to the wind,… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
There is no one way to salvation, whatever the manner in which a man may proceed. All forms and variations are governed… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
“There’s two ways to go in this life. You can try to rise above it, overpower it, with meditation, exercise, and purity.… — Robert Black Copy Share Image
“Apathy is the bushel basket under which the ego hides its fear of being powerless. It is easier to become apathetic when… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
With so many forty- and fifty something mums and dads in Converse stalking the streets, I can see why there's a slew… — Rachel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The greatest teacher in healing is nature itself. To be out in the nature is like being surrounded and embraced by love.… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“I thought that as I had failed in the contemplation of true existence, I ought to be careful that I did not… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The art of meditation may be exercised at all hours, and in all places, and men of genius, in their walks, at… — Isaac D'Israeli Copy Share Image
“Zen is a present state of mind where one honors the task they are partaking of, even if the task is sitting… — Jasun Ether Copy Share Image
