At the beginning of meditation training thoughts will arrive one on top of another, uninterrupted, like a steep mountain waterfall. Gradually, as… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“It was still quiet at the bar, early afternoon, before the happy-hour crowd arrived with their after-work bonhomie, and even as the… — William Lashner Copy Share Image
Machine thinking is the opposite of mindfulness. If we're really engaged in mindfulness when walking along the path to the village, then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion,… — Leonard Bernstein Copy Share Image
When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
“The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting… — J. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The "Bhagavad Gita" is actually a very good text for yoga - the yoga of love, the yoga of action or karma,… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“Next, I went in the shower to lather every inch of my body and stayed for so long inside, I walked away… — Karl Kristian Flores Copy Share Image
“Resolutions, like all spiritual virtues, can be misused by the ego when mindfulness is absent. There are few things that will keep… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Meditation is a teaching which offers you the possibility of breaking free of this egoic state of consciousness and coming into a… — Adyashanti Copy Share Image
“Be the dolphin! Have you ever noticed people go fishing every single day and they come home with all kinds of fish… — Adam Moskowitz Copy Share Image
I spend a few minutes in meditation and prayer each morning. I find that this really helps me to start the day… — Jim Henson Copy Share Image
“Even this…even in my meditation I am preconditioned to feel or experience something predetermined. If we could all just allow ourselves to… — Ana Rangel & Gerry O'malley Copy Share Image
I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I… — Mike Love Copy Share Image
“Spontaneity in the therapeutic work arises when the therapist can allow creative and authentic impulses to arise from moment to moment from… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“Once you have mathematical certainty there is nothing left to do or to understand. There will be nothing left but to bottle… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Twenty minutes in the morning, 20 in the evening. Transcendental Meditation teachers have taught everyone in my company who wanted to learn… — Oprah Winfrey Copy Share Image
“No art takes places without inspiration. Every artist also needs effective knowledge of his or her tools (e.g., does a certain brush… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“[L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“By the second day, the song lyrics had faded, but in their place came darker irritations. Gradually, I started to become aware… — Oliver Burkeman Copy Share Image
An act of meditation is actually an act of faith--of faith in your spirit, in your own potential. Faith is the basis… — Martine Batchelor Copy Share Image
Even Zen finally has to be transcended. Finally you have to become so meditative that you don⬢t need to meditate any more… — OSHO Copy Share Image
I'm a great supporter of transcendental meditation. I've been using it for almost 40 years now - and I think it's a… — Clint Eastwood Copy Share Image
Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic. A great transformation… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“But work is life only when done in mindfulness. otherwise, one becomes life the person "who lives as though dead." We need… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are… — Richard Rohr Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness: Taking a balanced approach to negative emotions so that feelings are neither suppressed nor exaggerated. We cannot ignore our pain and… — Brené Brown Copy Share Image
Breathing is important in the practice of meditation because it is the faculty in us that is simultaneously voluntary and involuntary. You… — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Prayer doesn’t work. Perhaps it makes the believer feel better (in the same way that meditation or deep thought would), but prayer… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“Worldly life increases with artadhyan (mournful contemplation that hurts the self) and raudradhyan (wrathful contemplation hurting the self and others), and worldly… — Dada Bhagwan 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
“The mind is the only level at which any lasting change can occur—it is the soil in which we plant our hopes… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
“three simple meditations that can set you on the path of healing: Meditation on the breath. Sit quietly with your eyes closed.… — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
“What is Zen? Zen means doing anything perfectly, making mistakes perfectly, being defeated perfectly, hesitating perfectly, doing anything perfectly or imperfectly, perfectly.… — Reginald Horace Blyth Copy Share Image
There is only one basic desire that motivates the spiritual seeker-to make the experience of God, of divine bliss and joy, the… — Douglas Bloch Copy Share Image
Meditation means removing all your prejudices, putting all your conclusions aside, seeing without any hindrance, seeing without any curtains, seeing clearly without… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Loads of people talk about meditation and what it can do for your anxiety and I just really struggle to do traditional… — Stacey Solomon Copy Share Image
“Lao Tzu, Chuang Tzu, Bodhidharma, Sosan – they are the Masters of this law of reverse effect. And this is the difference… — Osho Copy Share Image
“Realizing that meditation is about defocusing, I saw that the next step was to simply choose to defocus the mind from the… — Richard L. Haight Copy Share Image
![“[L]ive life as if each moment was important, as if each moment counted and could be worked with, even if it was a moment of pain, sadness, despair, or fear. This "work" involves above all the regular, disciplined practice of moment-to-moment awareness or mindfulness, the complete "owning" of each…” quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13c/jon-kabat-zinn-1327_awareness_l-ive-life-as-if-each-moment-was-importa_882658.jpg)
