“Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Life without zazen is like winding your clock without setting it. It runs perfectly well, but it dosen't tell time. — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
The full ashtanga system practiced with devotion leads to freedom within one's heart. — K. Pattabhi Jois Copy Share Image
I'm pretty freelance. A freelance meditator. I float from one thing to the other. — Alex Ebert Copy Share Image
Our ultimate dharma is self-realization. Thoughts and actions that support our spiritual evolution are real dharma. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the extremely difficult art of leaving the past and the future alone.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In an age of bombs guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace with thought and action.” — Aberjhani Copy Share Image
In zazen, one is one's present self, what one was, and what one will be, all at once. — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking.… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The spirit is something to be enjoyed. It is not a harsh discipline. And I think people should take some time everyday… — Shirley MacLaine Copy Share Image
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and… — Benjamin Disraeli Copy Share Image
The body of a human being is a temple of God. But this temple has to be enlightened and has to be… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
Zen is the only religion in the world that teaches sudden enlightenment. It says that enlightenment takes no time, it can happen… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A person who undertakes the study of Zen and learns concentration and meditation is like a gymnast. You become a gymnast of… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer,… — Steve Zahn Copy Share Image
People get embarrassed about admitting they feel low but you can't help the way you feel. Which is why exercise, taking vitamins… — Shirley Ballas Copy Share Image
I understood how a man who has nothing left in this world may still know bliss, be it only for a brief… — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
If you meditate, meditation is so beautiful, who bothers about the result? And if you bother about the result, meditation is not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
“The naturalistic hypothesis that it’s the brain that constructs the sense of self, now being explored by neuroscientists and neuro-philosophers worldwide, is… — Thomas W. Clark Copy Share Image
Avoid all refined speculations; confine yourself to simple reflections, and recur to them frequently. Those who pass too rapidly from one truth… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
There are many different techniques and forms of meditation. The common element among these techniques is that the person takes time out… — Tim McCarthy Copy Share Image
My whole effort here is to keep you as non-serious as possible, for the simple reason that meditation, all kinds of meditation,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation begins with a call that awakes us out of the coma of self-preoccupation. We are called, we are chosen. Meditation is… — John Main Copy Share Image
“The narrow edge between comfort and discomfort is to a yogi what a grain of sand is to an oyster.” — Darren Main Copy Share Image
Meditation helps you to learn about character and mind. It relieves you of the tension you have gone through. — Bob Christo Copy Share Image
Meditation is when we go beyond incarnation, beyond all cycles, to immortality, to something that is not transient. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Is there a meditation that is not the ego trying to become? Is meditation conscious if every effort implies time? — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
Meditation is neither of the body nor of the mind, but belongs to the third within you—your being. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
A free man thinks of nothing less than of death; and his wisdom is a meditation not on death but on life. — Baruch Spinoza Copy Share Image
