With mindfulness there is more to unlearn than there is to learn.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

The Art of Living is to be yourself. It is to be true to yourself. The Art of Living is learning to live with love, awareness and truth. Meditation is the way to learn The...

Our basic relationship to sex mirrors our whole relationship to life.

Presence is about how every action can arise from the quality, which we call awareness – the presence of our inner being, the presence of our soul. It is a large difference between working with...

The act of meditation is being spacious.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.

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.

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.

Spiritual Practice involves being constantly aware

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.

Can you imagine how incredibly quiet it was everywhere, when the gentlemen from this world” — he made a vague circular gesture towards the battalions of meditating Asians behind him — “were hatching and proclaiming...

It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it is within. Go there, within.

Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.

Micro meditations should be performed with very little activity. These practices should not be associated with any goal, concept or belief.

We need never be bound by the limitations of our previous or current thinking, nor are we ever locked into being the person we used to be, or think we are.

Humankind has accumulated generation upon generation of knowledge, the culmination of which is the vast and useful technological array we see everywhere in modern society. Despite this great accumulation of knowledge and technology, we still...

I have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.

But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I...

The awareness that seeks to know is the very object of its own seeking.

I am your hope, your guide – your soul.

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

If you are a Buddhist, inspire yourself by thinking of the bodhisattva. If you are a Christian, think of the Christ, who came not to be served by others but to serve them in joy,...

All other creatures look down toward the earth, but man was given a face so that might turn his eyes toward the stars and his gaze upon the sky.

Meditation makes us happier!

Blessed are those that know the path out of their carnal flesh, for they shall attain intuition.

Meditation is mind’s vacation!

It is the mind’s job to protect and take care of you, to solve your problems and make sure you’re safe. So, if you feel a surge of emotional upset, it moves into action, trying...

With the practice of meditation we can develop this ability to more fully love ourselves and to more consistently love others.

Three Lines That Hit the Key Points.

Only if we live consciously, we can die consciously.

When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.

I remember sitting and meditating beside a slow flowing river in India, and I got the feeling that this river could teach me all the secrets of the mystery of life. If we learn to...

If you’ve ever tried meditation and didn’t stay with it, I recommend you try it again. Some time has passed. In the interim, you may have developed the discipline of mind or the patience you...

Only with the closing of the eyes are we truly free.

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence — silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

No matter how busy we may believe we are, we have the wonderful opportunity presently of investing time with loved ones. For those are the great investments we will be glad we made, when time...

The Awakened One sees the observer and the observed as one. The unawakened one sees the observer and the observed as different.

We exist to serve the Lord

Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life,” murmured Niko. “They bring new food for shore creatures, and take ships out to sea. They are the ocean’s pulse, and our own heartbeat.

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

Rome is not outside me, but inside me.. Her feverish sweetness, her tragic countryside, her own beauty and harmony, all these are mine, for my thought and my work.

Your total intelligence knows how to accomplish astounding feats. You just need a clear objective. Get clear. You will surprise yourself!

AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

The space between between breaths is measured in moments. But the space between Truths..? Lifetimes.