When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

Success comes from finding your center and self.

Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don’t look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

Biking and love do not make sense without your personal experience

Elizabeth Mattis-Namgyel, when asked how to strike a better balance between family, work and self-realisation says: “You need the intention, good scheduling, and you have to be creative. If you don’t find time to practice,...

Because all actions and expressionsstem from the mind, it is vital to know themind as well as decide in what way we’ll use it. Everyone has heard of psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge...

For many of us, especially being so fortunate to live in a first-world country, the vast majority of pain we experience is due to the seriousness with which we identify with our thoughts.

When you can no longer tell the difference between being yourself and being love, you are not far from waking up.

Everything in existence undergoes constant change. The things that surround us, even our selves are temporary manifestations of Ki energy.

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

To meditate, only you must smile. Smile with face, smile with mind, and good energy will come and clean away dirty energy. Even smile in your liver.

Contemplation + action = breakthrough

Meditation is doing what you are doing – whether you are doing formal meditation or child care.

The art of sensuality encompassing the exploration and experiencing of all our senses… Those images are being born from and through living the moments of eating favorite chocolate cake with ice-cream, tranquil meditating, walking the...

I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds...

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of “being,” my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just...

We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.

There is so much we just can’t see or know right now, including precisely how our actions will ripple out.

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Deep within ourselves, we find the inner being, the inner source of love, which is our true nature. Love is the only reality, because only love works.

The soul does not condemn us. It is not the God of our fathers. Soul is the essence of existence and it is free and limitless. It gives all things the freedom to be, to...

I was tired in the evening yesterday. I felt drained by the last days outer conflicts. I felt separated from life. Suddenly I heard the wind blowing through the trees outside my open window, whispering...

If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those...

I don’t know where I’m going on this path. I don’t know what I’m doing with my life. You had to be lost, before you could be found. These are the truths. You had to...

The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness.

Sometimes I just need to be alone with what I believe in.

Meditation is for many a foreign concept, somehow distant and foreboding, seemingly impossible to participate in. But another word for meditation is simply awareness. Meditation is awareness.

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

The true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting.

The practice is simple. Whatever you’re doing, do that with total awareness.

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you’re on set, all day? That’s what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3.

Without thoughts the mind cannot exist only consciousness

There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.

You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.

Through systematic meditation one can awaken the third eye and touch the cosmic awareness. Sushumna nadi is the subtle pathway in the spinal cord which passes through the main psychic centers. The awakening of these...

Some practice Yoga, some indulge in pleasures; some live in spiritual wisdom, some live in meditation. Some are bearers of the staff.

When you eliminate the Ego’s intense desire to be correct, the clarity of the moment can come through. How simple is that?

has no guts,” doesn’t it?

Looking forward” to what you think enlightenment might be at some grand point in the future keeps you from seeing the truth of its presence right now.

But I looked out at the waves far below the bluff. They looked violent, erupting against the cliff. I watched them rising – up, up, higher, higher – then falling, crashing, swirling into chaos, passing...

He no longer grasped to a strong sense of self. To him life felt more like a dream, a cascade of cause and effect that was completely up for grabs-and he was no longer separate...

Choice is the doorway to our creative power. To unleash this power, we must begin from the state of beingness.

Smiles and kindness bring so much more than money can buy. Help and acceptance are all that is needed when you see someone cry.Open your eyes, and let everyone be free. Free to be you...

Whether one is remaining alert (mindfulness), focusing on a single thought or phrase (mantra), or mentally exploring ones inner world (visualization), all are one form of concentration or another.

Most of our healing occurs during quiet moments of rest when we are in contact with unconscious feelings and experiences. I can’t imagine life without the peaceful, insightful moments I have during meditation.

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

A cluttered mind can make the difference between a nightmare and a dream. Meditate and clear your thoughts before you sleep.

Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.

As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we realize infinity itself to be the Guru and all that we do as grace. As we...