“When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
I and my bosom must debate awhile, and then I would no other company. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
With the years passing I feel the need to know more about meditation, kriya yoga and chanting. — Mukul Dev Copy Share Image
Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice. — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
“It is not our contemplation of life. Rather, it is the living out of our lives so that we have something to… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
“Meditation is better than counseling. It keeps me sane in this crazy world.” — Brandt Legg Copy Share Image
“Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.” — Allan Lokos Copy Share Image
From the point of view of meditation, there is nothing that is not God. When we meditate, we are participating in a… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“surgery can help to remove a damaged organ but only meditation and quiet time can remove emotions like anger and fear to… — Teresa Spelman Copy Share Image
The contemplation of truth and beauty is the proper object for which we were created, which calls forth the most intense desires… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
There are two primary ways of studying Zen. Either an individual will enter into a Zen monastery and study with a Zen… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation gives you back one or two sleep cycles every time you do it. Do it every day and it goes quite… — Jon Hopkins Copy Share Image
“We only know Him in so far as we are known by Him, and our contemplation of Him is a participation in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Meditation and prayer have withstood the test of time. They work today as perfectly as they did for those who first practised… — Michael Beckwith Copy Share Image
The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought… — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
“The average person wastes his life. He has a great deal of energy but he wastes it. The life of an average… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
The whole idea of mindfulness is all about having a second-level monitoring of your thoughts and being able to recognize them as… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
One of the things that has changed my life—and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality—is meditating.… — Sheryl Crow Copy Share Image
I think anything that you can use to connect is fine. For some people it's meditation. For some people it's yoga. For… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
Moved by their selfish desires, people seek after fame and glory. But when they have acquired it, they are already stricken in… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
And therefore you who think so basely of the Gospel and the professors of it, because at present their peace and comfort… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
The Divine rejoices in your being happy. God, or the Creation, is so happy when you are happy. When you dance, sing,… — Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Copy Share Image
Mindfulness is Buddha's word for meditation. By mindfulness he means: you should always remain alert, watchful. You should always remain present. Not… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Some people get attached to their practice. They get good at it, but even becoming a good meditator can become a hindrance. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
Seek in reading and thou shalt find in meditation; knock in prayer and it shall be opened in contemplation. — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth. — George Horne Copy Share Image
At the end of meditation period we always bow and we touch our head to the floor and say "Buddha's name be… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
My meditation is a method of being aware - of whatever you are doing, thinking, feeling. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Through meditation, you can calm the mind and develop what is important to you. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi Copy Share Image
Every step taken in mindfulness brings us one step closer to healing ourselves and the planet. — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Spirituality does not lie in meditating on the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body. — Amit Ray Copy Share Image
“Contemplation, rather than action; that seemed to be my lot in life, and I was ashamed of it even as I craved… — Melanie Benjamin Copy Share Image
Crying to God for five minutes is equal to one hour of meditation. — Mata Amritanandamayi Copy Share Image
Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour. — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
"Comfort" is no test of truth; on the contrary, truth is often far from being "comfortable". — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Why are you knocking at every door ? Go, knock at the door of your own heart. — Rumi Copy Share Image