Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness leads to selflessness, which unfolds as mindlessness is left behind.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Mind is the absence of meditation. The moment meditation arises in you, mind is found nowhere. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.” — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
Meditation is not to get out of society, to escape from society, but to prepare for a reentery into society. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Every day work on your humility through your meditation, giving more of yourself, giving those things you don't want to give. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
To foster inner awareness, introspection, and reasoning is more efficient than meditation and prayer. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It is only in the last 800 years that the rules have come into being and conservative Zen has surfaced. It is… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the key that opens the door to all the knowledge and understanding in life—certainly to our current lives and also… — Lisa Williams Copy Share Image
Most human beings live like a bird in a cage whose door was blown away. Out of habit, too busy gold-plating the… — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of… — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
“What mindfulness does is create some space in your head so you can, as the Buddhists say, “respond” rather than simply “react.”… — Dan Harris Copy Share Image
“At the moment of enlightenment, everything is dropped—body, mind, all states, all things—everything. At that moment, there is no separate entity that… — Enza Vita Copy Share Image
Zen does not confuse spirituality with thinking about God while one is peeling potatoes. Zen spirituality is just to peel the potatoes. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself… — Eric Micha'el Leventhal Copy Share Image
“If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear. Through… — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
“The problem with the contemplative life was that there was no end to contemplation, no fixed time limit after which thought had… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“In Fully Present: The Science, Art, and Practice of Mindfulness, Susan Smalley and Diana Winston argue that, “Learning to live mindfully does… — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
Now focus on your cheeks, mouth and throat. Feel the areas and feel the cells under the skin slowing to a relaxed… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Zen abhors repetition or imitation of any kind, for it kills. For the same reason Zen never explains, but only affirms. Life… — D.T. Suzuki Copy Share Image
“Attention can be trained very naturally, with affection, just as you train a puppy. When something distracts your attention, you say “Come… — Eknath Easwaran Copy Share Image
