When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness” is the purest mindlessness. It is the great and perverse desire to annihilate consciousness and exist in an eternal now of… — Jack Tanner Copy Share Image
“When we reflect on the larger picture of our lives, we can compass our ‘cherished priorities’ and discover whether they align with… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
When you start witnessing something without thought, there is no obstruction for absorbing the knowledge about that thing because there is no… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is about love and loving life. When you cultivate this love, it gives you clarity and compassion for life, and your… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that... And this… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We can have skills training in mindfulness so that we are using our attention to perceive something in the present moment. This… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
By keeping the mind in the present, unless you deliberately want to contemplate the past or future, it's possible to firmly face… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Prayer and contemplation are both exercises in concentration. The normal deluge of conscious thought is restricted and the mind is brought to… — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which… — Henri Matisse Copy Share Image
The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To… — Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“Our freedom to say or write whatever we please in this country is holy to me. It is a rare privilege not… — Kurt Vonnegut Jr Copy Share Image
Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.'… — Ellen DeGeneres Copy Share Image
“Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have… — Steve Goodier Copy Share Image
When Zen masters say 'effortlessness' they are referring to the state when your enlightenment is well rooted. Now there is no need… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is always advisable to obtain a mantra from a self-realized master. Until then we may use one of the mantras of… — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Through the years, I have combined meditation, action, and the Iron into a single strength. I believe that when the body is… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
LOVE is essentially self-communicative: those who do not have it catch it from those who have it… No amount of rites, rituals,… — Meher Baba Copy Share Image
Real music will make you more and more refined. It will become more and more silent. In fact, real music will help… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
It is better to use this available energy for your observation, inner observation. Just watch everything - and it is good because… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
In the East we call this state meditation: no belief, no thought, no desire, no prejudice, no conditioning - in fact, no… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Zen is not some fancy, special art of living. Our teaching is just to live, always in reality, in its exact sense.… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness has to do with waking up and living in harmony with oneself and with the world. It is examining who we… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Meditation has made me happy, loving, and peaceful-but not every single moment of the day. I still have good times and bad,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I want people to look at themselves. I want people to go into a space for meditation. It's funny to use a… — David W. Marsden Copy Share Image
“Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“A miracle is an inner transformation that causes us to see the world so differently, in such an intimate and personal way,… — Benjamin W. Decker Copy Share Image
“What I can tell you is that yoga is about removing the muck by shining the light of awareness on it. That… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
If you receive empowerment, it's about bodhicitta. If you receive teachings, it's about bodhicitta. If you practice teachings, it's about bodhicitta. Everything… — Garchen Rinpoche Copy Share Image
A minute analysis of life at once destroys that splendor which dazzles the imagination. Whatsoever grandeur can display, or luxury enjoy, is… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The distant sea, lapping the sandy shore with measured sound; the nearer cries of the donkey-boys; the unusual scenes moving before her… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Thou shall love the Lord with thy whole heart, soul, and mind. This is the commandment of the Great God, and he… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
Buddha says: Meditation brings two things. It brings wisdom, it brings freedom. These two flowers grow out of meditation. When you become… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Do whatever you do joyfully, because discipline - the true meaning of the word - is characterized by doing something with joy.… — Olivia Ames Hoblitzelle Copy Share Image
Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given… — Richard Nelson Copy Share Image
When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
Being able to recognize which of your desires are vital to pursue and which ones are not is often less than easy.… — Rod Stryker Copy Share Image
Sometimes you have a flash of insight, but it's not strong enough to survive. Therefore in the practice of Buddhism, samadhi is… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
“The monk's ultimate goal is direct union with the Godhead. But to aim at that goal is to miss it altogether. His… — Walter M. Miller Jr Copy Share Image
