Speak less, listen deeply.

I have to admit that ever since I started to rip-up the lawns of rich people I have felt a lot calmer!

The modern mind is overstimulated and the modern body is understimulated and overfed. Meditation, exercise, and fasting restore an ancient balance.

Cut the cords of attachment. Expand the circle of love.

Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the...

Save now, so you are not dependent on your children when you are old

I can be alone without being lonely. In fact, those times of solitude are necessary respite for a beleaguered soul, set upon by the pressures of life. I need to take whatever moments I can...

To master life, control the mind. To control the mind, guard your speech.

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

Maggunitanay ta, unya binanwagan sa bituon, / Latason ta ang hataas nga patag sa kagabhion.(Let us hold hands, and guided by the stars, / Let us tread the long pathway of the night.)

It is possible to refine awareness itself so much that the emptiness of things, and the role mental construction plays, becomes a directly apprehended reality.

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from there move endlessly....

As consciousness expands, so does perception of self.

Movement is the freedom of the body; stillness, of the mind.

Meditation leads you to your spiritual information, and takes you on a journey of getting to know yourself and your creations.

We can feel the vibration that comes from the candle flame, burning it way into our innermind, no blurry images, clear as crystal, we enter into the highest consciousness, on our journey back home, we...

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

The whole present moment was a celebration; it always had been; all I needed was fresh eyes to see it.

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

Everything you ever needed to know is waiting in the space between your thoughts.

Have a namasté day today. Look into the eyes of everyone you meet and silently honor his or her soul. Say silently, ‘I honor the light within you, which is the same as the light...

Only when the seeker is lost, the truth is there. Seek, and you will miss. Seek not, and you will find. The very seeking becomes a barrier to truth, to the ultimate experience.

Fear and hate create separation, love and joy creates belongingness and wholeness.

Meditation expands our inner being. The inner being is like a small, individual river flowering towards the Ocean. In meditation, I feel how my inner being expands into an inner ocean, which is part of...

Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won’t show much but would make you ROCK in the long run.

Just eat me up if you want to.” Then that demon left too.

In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of meditation a day helps us to do this, let’s go for it!

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern...

Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’ sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words ‘Be still’. What does stillness...

Fear exists because we do not have faith.

Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

Unconditional Love is the outer expression of Inner Peace.

Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty.

If you have never found yourself, the best place to look is in your loneliness, and rock-bottom is even better.

Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.

The practice of lovingkindness can uplift us & relieve sorrow & unhappiness.

On considering these instances it is indubitably clear that sati has a crucial role to fulfill in the realm of samatha. This might be why the Cūḷavedalla Sutta speaks of satipaṭṭhāna as the “cause” of...

When your intentions are pure, so too will be your success.

We’re so used to just glancing at the environment through the eyes of the past that we’re frequently not certain if we are in fact paying attention or if we merely think that we’re paying...

Just knowing that there is no gate to pass through doesn’t mean that we are at the end of the search, not if we are still standing outside that gateless gate.

Come back” and bring it back again. With a lot of training, you can teach your mind to come running back to you when you call, just like a friendly pup.

My beloved jay, give me a name now. call out the name you give me, looking into the deepest place in your heart. Everytime you call my name, I’ll fly to you and be your...

Poetry is the way that we transcend language through language. And thus our freedom lies in the poetry of all things

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.

Philosophic meditation is an accomplishment by which I attain Being and my own self, not impartial thinking which studies a subject with indifference.

Set a daily solitude time for reflection and rethinking.

El artista es una parábola de la realidad

For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator.