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
“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
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
“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
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
“Why do we call yoga a practice? The yoga poses of life—the grief, the fear, the uncertainty—rarely offer us the option of… — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Zen is the very principle of existence. Whether there is anyone who teaches it or not, whether there is anyone who learns… — OSHO Copy Share Image
“In meditation practice, we neither hold the mind very tightly nor let it go completely. If we try to control the mind,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
This is the way of meditation: encountering the present in all its tremendous beauty, just being in the present. Inside, the mind… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our… — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
Whether we meditate individually or collectively, there is one thing we absolutely must do: we have to meditate consciously. Making an unconscious… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
I don't get anywhere meditating," she said. "I see people sitting there with their eyes closed, a smile on their lips or… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“Too often, people approach meditation as though they were taking medicine—it tastes bad, but they grin and bear it because it’s supposed… — John Yates Copy Share Image
“What the Net seems to be doing is chipping away my capacity for concentration and contemplation. Whether I’m online or not, my… — Nicholas G. Carr Copy Share Image
Dear brothers and sisters...The Lord is calling me to "climb the mountain", to devote myself even more to prayer and meditation. But… — Pope Benedict XVI Copy Share Image
I wake up early enough every morning to have some alone time. I have an app called Simply Being that's made for… — Kevin Griffin Copy Share Image
What distinguishes - in both senses of that word - contemplation is rather this: it is a knowing which is inspired by… — Josef Pieper Copy Share Image
After meditating for some years, I began to see the patterns of my own behavior. As you quiet your mind, you begin… — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality. You must be prepared to go into deep meditation… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
And the miracle is: if you can go into your suffering as a meditation, watching, to the deepest roots of it, just… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
I think the greatest gift we can give our children is the experience of deep quiet. If we don’t help our children… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Evil-doers who denounce the wise resemble a person who spits against the sky; the spittle will never reach the sky, but comes… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I have a lot of friends who have hula-hoops, it's like a mixture of dance and athletics and exercise, meditation. It's a… — Sufjan Stevens 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
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 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
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
“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
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
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
“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
“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
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
