If you’re searching for something out in the world to bring you happiness, wealth or love, then you are in for a tough journey. The key to success is never out there, but rather within....

Encouraging words are good medicine for the soul.

By meditating, we´re learning to disengage ourselves from habitual clinging and disperse the defilements and obscurations that hinder our capacity to serve others, such as illusory feelings of scarcity and fears of deprivation. We gradually...

Theoretically, I wanted to meditate, but I found actually doing it extraordinarily difficult. As a therapist, I knew that we all want progress, but we resist change. I was a vivid example of this maxim....

Spirituality is a way of life. it is not just doing meditation.

It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life.

We long for permanence but everything in the known universe is transient. That’s a fact but one we fight.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

Service is greater than meditation.

Nobody ever reaches to God, God comes to you when you are open and receptive, when you are ready.

Through becoming aware of how the inner man and woman relates and communicates inside ourselves, it creates a joy and satisfaction in the three life areas that they influence: our meditation and inner growth, our...

Working with people from awareness means to be available. It means to respond with the truth in the moment. It means to respond to the moment in a way that creates a fragrance of love.

I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don’t arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation is one way to get there through practice.

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

If the object of meditation were something concrete, something solid and graspable – an image or a statue or a dot on the floor or a candle – it would be much more of a...

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.

Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.

Serve your parents if you expect your children to serve you when you are old

The Beloved is Always There, Actively Seeking You.

Solitude is such a potential thing. We hear voices in solitude, we never hear in the hurry and turmoil of life; we receive counsels and comforts, we get under no other condition . . .

We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence; a total immersion.

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

The term satipaṭṭhāna can be explained as a compound of sati, “mindfulness” or “awareness”, and upaṭṭhāna, with the u of the latter term dropped by vowel elision. The Pāli term upaṭṭhāna literally means “placing near”,...

Up there in that room, as I see it, is the reading and the thinking-through, a theory of rivers, of trees moving, of falling light. Here on the river, as I lurch against a freshening...

Using the combined, integrated force of the mind and body is more efficient than using one without the other. Since the body can only exist in the present, that’s where the mind should be too...

that” is. You know without a doubt that there is something reading these words right now and awareness is precisely what that is.

Thoughts don’t become things; thoughts ARE things.

Happiness is something we create ourselves. To our eyes, the sun appears to rise in the east every day to create a brilliant morning for the earth. The sun, however, does not create the morning...

Skill in concentrating and steadying the mind is the basis for all types of meditation.

He captures memories because if he forgets them, it’s as though they didn’t happen.

Breathing involves a continual oscillation between exhaling and inhaling, offering ourselves to the world at one moment and drawing the world into ourselves at the next…

Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause – and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you...

Take the time to slow down, relax, meditate, and contemplate the wonders within. You will discover an inner calm and balance that previously eluded you.

Your real self may be hiding somewhere, look for it within, when you find yourself, you can freely be what you want to be.

The teaching of the sexual tantras all come down to one point. Although desire, of whatever shape or form, seeks completion, there is another kind of union than the one we imagine. In this union,...

Against The Stream is more than just another book about meditation. It is a manifesto and field guide for the front lines of the revolution. It is the culmination of almost two decades of meditative...

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.

The most important thing that is happening in the world right now is the emerging of the new man.Since the monkeys, man has remained the same, but a great revolution is on it’s way. When...

Life’s only law is change. Everything is continuously changing, evolving and developing. Hindus say that it takes 840 million lives to become a human being, which emphasises the precious gift of being a human being.

Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness.

The universe is something like a powerful radar system that is set up from all sides to record every action and every event that may take place anywhere, even of the least intensity or momentum....

In the practice of exchanging self & other, paradoxes abound.

This meditation is called nontheistic, which doesn’t have anything to do with believing in God or not believing in God, but means that nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to...

*Breathing in, I know this is my in-breath.Breathing out, I know this is my out-breath.*It’s very simple, but very effective. When we bring our attention to our in-breath and our out-breath, we stop thinking of...

Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens

Meditation is the glue that holds our mind, body, and spirit together

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

Be contented with the things of the world. Develop greed for God.