Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to...

Be aware of yourself without thinking or looking in the mirror

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.)

Meditation, especially for people who don’t know very much about it and think it’s this very hippy dippy thing, can really be powerful, terrifying even, as it lifts the rug up on your subconscious and...

Live in the present, or die in your past; it’s your choice.

Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.

Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.

We all have issues & we have usually come by them honestly.

The advantages of developing absorption concentration are not only that it provides a stable and receptive state of mind for the practice of insight meditation. The experience of absorption is one of intense pleasure and...

Always go with your passions. Never ask yourself if it’s realistic or not.

All creations are one with the universe. Look at the world around you. Can you effectively separate yourself from everything else? After seriously pondering this, most of us rapidly conclude that we cannot. To even...

Being enlightened ironically means realizing that there is no separate entity that can be enlightened or unenlightened.

He (Lincoln) was accustomed to hearing words, many of them boring, but he was not accustomed to group silence.

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a...

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

I tell my students not to be frightened; in the history of Buddhism-for 2,500 years-no one has broken or fractured a leg because of sitting in meditation.

Let your imagination takes you where you want to be.

just throw away all thoughts ofimaginary things,and stand firm in that which you are.

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.

Whether you’ve never meditated before or you’ve been doing it religiously for years, it is always good to evaluate (or re-evaluate) your practice. Although I’ve been meditating and teaching it for years, I still enjoy...

In the solitude of meditation, when your conscious mind becomes quiet, your subconscious reveals herself.

The simple act of being completely attentive & present to another person is an act of love, and it fosters unshakeable well-being.

Without awareness there is no freedom. Awareness is vital for any possibility of free choice.

REPENT:FOR THE KINGDOM OF GODIS AT HANDThe whole message of John the Baptist and Jesus Christ are: Repent: For the Kingdom of God is at hand.But this message has been terrible misunderstood by the priests...

Sex is the alpha and enlightenment is the omega. Sex is the first step of the spiritual journey, and enlightenment is the last step of the spiritual journey.

Spontaneity in the therapeutic work arises when the therapist can allow creative and authentic impulses to arise from moment to moment from the inner being, from the meditative quality within, from the inner emptiness, from...

The most important therapeutic capacity is the ability to be present with an open heart and to be grounded in our inner being,in our essence and authentic self, in the meditative quality within, through which...

Devote the mind to confusion and we know only too well, if we´re honest, that it will become a dark master of confusion, adept in its addictions, subtle and perversely supple in its slaveries. Devote...

IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all...

The mind will always take on an order conforming to that upon which it concentrates.

You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life, and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the...

Everything is possible through complete devotion to the Lord.

We are all poor in the face of God’s majesty. Not all of us realise it.

When you deeply love someone from that space that is beyond attachment to certain projections or desires, when you love someone just deeply, totally, completely, without any games that the mind or emotions play, then...

He may really have been enjoying an embryonic composition of his own stimulated by mere hints in the book.

Through TV people turn their family living rooms into meditative dens of death and violence worship.

I suggest that if you were able to focus your attention at will, you could actually choose the universe you appear to inhabit.

When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast and so devastating that you have no option but to merge with it....

To forgive does not mean to forget.