“Go within every day and find the inner strengthso that the world will not blow your candle out.”— Katherine Dunham
“Know that the true dharma emerges of itself [during the practice of zazen], clearing away hindrances and distractions.”— D?gen
“Hold the thoughts, know the thoughts and you realize the thoughts have slowed showing breaks and gaps, be the witness to them and you shall be meditating”— Maitreya Rudrabhayananda
“Lizzie said that if you imagined you were standing on the moon, looking down on the earth, you wouldn’t be able to see the itty-bitty people racing around worrying you wouldn’t see the barn falling in or the cow stuck in the pond; you wouldn’t see the mean Granger kids squirting mustard on your white dress. You would see the most beautiful blue oceans and green lands, and the whole earth would look like a giant blue-and-green marble floating in the sky. Your worries would seem so small, maybe invisible.”— Sharon Creech
“Sadhana means the practice to closest to the GOD (Baba) and a Shivir means an environment in which the sadhakas get the opportunity and guidance to do sadhana in a perfect manner……………. i think.”— shailendra kumar Lal
“To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come to you and clean away dirty energy.”— Elizabeth Gilbert
“Only those who have the great capacity of genuine trust can enter this realm [the realm of the buddhas]. Those who have no trust are unable to accept it, however much they hear it.”— D?gen
“Jesus lived a life of deep meditation. If thoughts and words were physical objects, meditation would be the act of holding, examining, taking apart, tasting, smelling, listening to, and savoring in order to study and become one.”— amy litzelman
“By meditating, we´re learning to disengage ourselves from habitual clinging and disperse the defilements and obscurations that hinder our capacity to serve others, such as illusory feelings of scarcity and fears of deprivation. We gradually learn to be more conscious and make better choices. We develop simplicity instead of comlexity, open-mindedness instead of narrow-mindedness, flexibility rather than rigidity. We feel ourselves to be more available to others and to give more generously of ourselves.”— Lama Surya Das
“A person is a great process, a bridge from animal to Soul. But we do not know about it”— Anatoliy Obraztsov
“Logic is a net to catch a „fish“ with. And the Truth is like water that can not be caught with net”— Anatoliy Obraztsov
“… If there are twenty identical doors in the corridor and you need somebody to enter one of them, what would you do? That’s right, put „No entry“ sign on the right door. Visit is guaranteed”— Anatoliy Obraztsov
“Any point of view reflects some side of truth and must not claim that it is complete”— Anatoliy Obraztsov
“It doesn’t matter how long you’re here for, or what accomplishments you have, it matters what you do with that time and the type of person that you are.”— Joel T. McGrath
“Unless you are silent, you will notknow your urgent heart, how it beatsbetween the thin skin of yes and no.”— Drew Myron
“The world’s an incessant transformation, and to meditateis awareness, with noclinging to,no working on, the mind.It is a floating; ever-moving; ‘marvellous emptiness’.Only absorption in such a practice will release usfrom the accidents, and appetites,of life.And upon this leaf one shall cross overthe stormy sea,among the dragon-like waves.”— Robert Gray
“We die unconsciously, we are born unconsciously and we live unconsciously as well”— Anatoliy Obraztsov
“Why are we such tortured human beings, with tears in our eyes and false laughter on our lips? If you could walk alone among those hills or in the woods or along the long, white, bleached sands, in that solitude you would know what meditation is. The ecstasy of solitude comes when you are not frightened to be alone no longer belonging to the world or attached to anything. Then, like that dawn that came up this morning, it comes silently, and makes a golden path in the very stillness, which was at the beginning, which is now, and which will be always there.”— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“[I]t is not hasty reading–but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey–but her abiding for a time upon the flower, which draws out the sweet. It is not he who reads most–but he who meditates most, who will prove the choicest, sweetest, wisest and strongest Christian.”— Thomas Brooks
“I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.”— Tara Brach
“Stepping out of the busyness, stopping our endless pursuit of getting somewhere else, is perhaps the most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit.”— Tara Brach
“Those who wish to sit, shut their eyes,and meditate to know if the world’s true or lies,may do so. It’s their choice. But I meanwhilewith hungry eyes that can’t be satisfiedshall take a look at the world in broad daylight.”— Rabindranath Tagore
“Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.”— Drew Myron