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

Speak less, listen deeply.

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

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

When we disrespect a person, we disrespect God

A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.

(Die) Überzeugung, dass es nur einen wahren grossen Meister gibt: jenen, den jeder Mensch in sich trägt. Wenn des Nachts die Stille so vollkommen ist, dass sie zu dröhnen scheint, steht er auf, entzündet eine Kerze und setzt sich ein paar Stunden lang davor. Wozu? “Um zu versuchen, ich selbst zu sein”, hat er mir...

No knife cuts as swiftly, deeply and precisely as the blade of the Beloved.

Prayer does not blind us to the world, but it transforms our vision of the world, and makes us see it, all men, and all the history of mankind, in the light of God. To pray ‘in spirit and in truth’ enables us to enter into contact with that infinite love, that inscrutable freedom which...

The only trouble is that in the spiritual life there are no tricks and no shortcuts. Those who imagine that they can discover spiritual gimmicks and put them to work for themselves usually ignore God’s will and his grace.

Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently ‘scientific’ knowledge of God, but to come to know him through the realization that our very being is penetrated with his knowledge and love for us. Our knowledge of God is paradoxically a knowledge not...

come up for a breath of air” out of the noisy clutter of the world.But don’t be afraid, there is nothing arcane or supernatural or creepy about the notion of taking a time-out. Ball players do it. Kids do it, when prompted by their parents. Heck, even your computer does it (and sometimes not when...

My brain I’ll prove the female to my soul; my soul the father: and these two beget a generation of still-breeding thoughts, and these same thoughts people this little world.

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 that love remains eternal in the heavens forever, and that is what pulls you back to remembering that love.

Where ego comes in, loving kindness departs. So wherever there is ego, there is very little space for true bliss and true happiness because true bliss and true happiness isn’t exclusive to the attachments the ego enjoys playing with, but rather a free state of mind that is part of loving kindness and its activities...

The way to Bliss is through Understanding, through Wisdom.

As you embrace Consciousness, you embrace Perfection.

Without patience, magic would be undiscovered – in rushing everything, we would never hear its whisper inside.

What can you give God but bhakti bhava? He owns it all anyway.

Fools only crib about what they do not have. They do not count their blessings.

it is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering

Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you.

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration

Love is God, and the one that believes in love, believes in God.

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others?

As long as we take thought, we will continue to matter”.

We exist to serve the Lord

The good news is that you are never alone. If you are a man, you are always with your inner feminine side. If you are a woman, you are ways with your inner masculine side. However, we are often disconnected from those inner feminine or masculine qualities. Meditation helps to establish that much needed dialog...

Ik wilde niet aan haar denken en me op de mantra concentreren: MAAA, zei ik bij het inademenen en OEEMMM bij het uitademen. MAAA… het was vast al bijna twee uur… OEEMMM. MAAA… je zou het niet zeggen, maar die lotushouding zat niet echt lekker…OEEMMM. MAAAA… als ik Jakob en Janus eens over Ticha vertelde?...

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 weight of your own thought again.

Meditation: Because some answers can only be found on the Inner net.

Have little,Need less:This is the wayTo inner peace.Surrender is a journeyFrom the outer turmoilTo the inner peace.PeaceIs in inner awakening,And this inner awakeningWe must shareWith the rest of the world.

Preach the gospel to yourself, because as you consider who you are in light of God’s perfect goodness, holiness and peace, you must soften toward others.

Sweep the broomOver sand and stone.Softly, gently,Brush away the dust.Listen to the leavesAs they sing in the tree.Peace fills the soulWhen living well.

Nothing you hear or read will be of any benefit to you unless you meditate and digest itdeeply.

Seek knowledge, getting as much of it as you can and meditate on it, then you will become ahappy possessor of wisdom.

It is good for us to have trials and troubles at times, for they often remind us that we are on probation and ought not to hope in any worldly thing. It is good for us sometimes to suffer contradiction, to be misjudged by men even though we do well and mean well. These things...

If you have been expending lots of energy mingling, counseling, or socializing, you need some down time to recover. Put it on your calendar so you can be intentional about it. And for an hour or so, go to a place by yourself. Read, relax, or do nothing. No one is there to talk to...

In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding.

This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.

Only this actual moment is life.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Seeking higher ground is not a destination, but an elevation. Wings up, eyes shut open.

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 species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth… This...

The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go – qualities that are innate within us.

Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.

Meditation takes us just as we are, with our confusion and our sanity. This complete acceptance of ourselves as we are is called maitri, or unconditional friendliness, a simple, direct relationship with the way we are.

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