We must especially learn the art of directing mindfulness into the closed areas of our life. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To remain caught up in ideas and words about Zen is, as the old masters say, to stink of Zen. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
“If the flame of knowledge burns out then human contemplation is incarcerated by superstitions and nonsense.” — Shaykh Muhammad Karam Shah al-Azhari Copy Share Image
“To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.” — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
If a man who enjoys a lesser happiness beholds a greater one, let him leave aside the lesser to gain the greater. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Everything that can be created has already been done in creation. As human beings, we can only imitate, not create as such. — Jaggi Vasudev Copy Share Image
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace. — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
As far as miracles are concerned, I'm not aware that I perform miracles. After many years and lifetimes of meditation, I am… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Our life is whatever we are encountering right now, and our practice is shikantaza, which is literally 'just sitting.' More broadly it… — Kosho Uchiyama Copy Share Image
There are thousands of lesser chakras. Chakras are doorways to other worlds. When you focus on them, you step into something else. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“One may practice zazen for twenty, thirty, even fifty years, and go through failures and frustrations, but every defeat and time of… — Katsuki Sekida Copy Share Image
Pranayam is the right science of breathing where deep, regulated and rhythmic breathing is done along with mental purification. Its practice plays… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
I would play a long tone on my accordion, or I'd sing one, and I would note how it felt - what… — Pauline Oliveros Copy Share Image
If you allow people, places and things, to pass through your mind during meditation, you will pull in all those other auras… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They… — Kristian Bush Copy Share Image
Behind all creation is silence. Silence is the essential condition, the vital ingredient for all creation and all that is created. It… — Dr BK Satyanarayan Copy Share Image
“Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that… — J.I. Packer Copy Share Image
“There are an incalculable—even infinite—number of situations in which we can practice forgiveness. Expecting it to be a singular action—motivated by the… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
What things there are to write, if one could only write them! My mind is full of gleaming thought; gay moods and… — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
“Becoming aware of our inner man and woman means to discover the roots and creative potential of both the male and female… — Swami Dhyan Giten Copy Share Image
“The disciplines of physical exercise, meditation and study aren't terribly esoteric. The means to attain a capability far beyond that of the… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach… — Sri Chinmoy Copy Share Image
When you understand that everything happening in the world mirrors something that's happening in yourself, then you can work on the self… — Charles Eisenstein Copy Share Image