Bases Quote by Jack Kornfield Download Open image “Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.” — Jack Kornfield ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bases Meditation Mind Psychology Skills Type
The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Meditation helps concentration of the mind. Then the mind is free from thoughts and is in the meditated form. — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Meditation is focused attention and the more we practise focusing our brains the more connections we build up. — Philippa Perry Copy Share Image
Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body. — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
“All forms of meditation strengthen & direct our attention through the cultivation of three key skills: concentration, mindfulness & compassion or lovingkindness.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
In meditation you first get sense control. And yoga will help you with the body and when the mind is steady, concentration will come… — Sathya Sai Baba Copy Share Image
Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
Meditation calms the mind, and when the mind is in a state of restful awareness, the body relaxes too. — Deepak Chopra Copy Share Image
Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight. — Ajahn Brahm Copy Share Image
“Meditation utilises concentration in its highest form. Concentration” — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and… — Matthieu Ricard Copy Share Image
“When we let go of our battles and open our heart to things as they are, then we come to rest in the present… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
In opening we can see how many times we have mistaken small identities and fearful beliefs for our true nature and how limiting this… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Wherever you are is the perfect place to awaken. This moment is the exact place to practice compassion and loving awareness. You have all… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Acceptance does not mean inaction. We may need to respond, strongly at times...From a peaceful center we can respond instead of react. Unconscious reactions… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To live in this precious animal body on this earth is as great a part of spiritual life as anything else. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
We do not have to improve ourselves; we just have to let go of what blocks our heart. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To open deeply, as genuine spiritual life requires, we need tremendous courage and strength, a kind of warrior spirit. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
For most of us, generosity is a quality that must be developed. We have to respect that it will grow gradually; otherwise our spirituality… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
What is truly a part of our spiritual path is that which brings us alive. If gardening brings us alive, that is part of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
“Working with these distractions, steadying the canoe, letting the waves pass by, and coming back again and again in a quiet and collected way,… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Self-respect and a clear conscience are powerful components of integrity and are the basis for enriching your relationships with others. — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
If my campaign is not in the debate, we will not be talking about how we really fix this problem of endless and expanding… — Jill Stein Copy Share Image
I don't want to go into space because of war. I think we would if it was triggered. If China said they want to… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The United States cannot and should not discriminate on the basis of religion. The free exercise of religion is at the very heart of… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
According to the best research, less than 3% of Americans have written goals, and less than 1% review and rewrite their goals on a daily basis. — Brian Tracy Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
I'm in a business where there's complete anarchy. You can't control it - you can only react to it. The control that people traditionally… — Martin Sorrell Copy Share Image
This tendency to avoid problems and the emotional suffering inherent in them is the primary basis of all human mental illness — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
There are dangers in consensus: it could be an attempt to satisfy people holding no particular views about anything. ... No great party can… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
There's no way to have a peace agreement unless the mediator or negotiator looks at both sides from an equal basis. — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Coercion is the basis of every law in the universe,--human or divine. A law is not law without coercion behind it. — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
Each Act of Parliament intended to address harassment and discrimination has faced objections on the basis of 'you'll never be able to prove...' and… — Tim Field Copy Share Image
