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...

The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.

[I]t is not hasty reading–but serious meditating upon holy and heavenly truths, that make them prove sweet and profitable to the soul. It is not the bee’s touching of the flower, which gathers honey–but her...

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.

Thoughts appear and disappear, just like waves on the ocean. Be like the ocean of love, releasing every thought to the shore as soon as they appear.

In an age of bombsguzzling blood, skylarks merge peacewith thought and action.

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.

Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.

Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.

Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion.

Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because...

Happiness is activity of soul.

While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization...

The difference between magic and meditation methods is the difference between drugs and diet—medicines will do swiftly what diet can only effect slowly, and in critical cases there is no time to wait for the...

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

Our task and challenge as human beings is to appreciate, in the same instant, both the infinite significance and absolute insignificance of life.

Affect Change; Change without action remains an idea; Changing my actions manifests the idea.

I’m like a praying mantis, except not so devout. And I make love like a monk in meditation, which can often be confused with being asleep.

The moments of peace in between the mental practices are meditation.

The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)

There are those hearts, reader, that never mend again once they are broken. Or if they do mend, they heal themselves in a crooked and lopsided way, as if sewn together by a careless craftsman....

The crack in your heart allows light in. ~ GOOD FORTUNE page 238

An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas...

Meditation is not to be on the surface of a thing or underneath it or above it, but it is to be in everywhere and to be in nowhere!

Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.

Metta is the ability to embrace all parts of ourselves, as well as all parts of the world. Practicing metta illuminates our inner integrity because it relieves us of the need to deny different aspects...

To eliminate the inner turmoil we must focus our attention inward and act with loving kindness to ourselves—and each other.

I can be stressed, or tired, and I can go into a meditation and it all just flows off of me. I’ll come out of it refreshed and centered and that’s how I’ll feel and...

The human heart is a healer, which heals both others and ourselves.

When we are, love is not.When we are not, love is.

The Warrior of the Light meditates.

It’s a rare gift to be appreciated by even one person. In life, the majority may not ever notice you. Know You’re still relevant. You’re always great. There will always be countless varieties of energies...

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are.

The person who suffers most in this world is the person who has many wrong perceptions, and most of our perceptions are erroneous.

Every day, whatever you do, you trade a day of your life for it.

The secret of true happiness lies within unwavering devotion to God

Know the one who wants nothing to be the wealthiest

I breathe in the soft, saturated exhalations of cedar trees and salmonberry bushes, fireweed and wood fern, marsh hawks and meadow voles, marten and harbor seal and blacktail deer. I breathe in the same particles...

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...

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

I enjoy load shedding in Nepal, when it allows me to witness the dancing of fireflies in the next field, and at the same time to hear children playing a chanting clapping game because there...

Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.

Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.

Devotion is a spiritual act of egoless surrender. When the Self blinds the spirit too tightly, then devotion expands the blinding by lifting us beyond ourselves. We get the powerful lesson that the Self survives...

when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can’t be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while,...

immovable mind.

thought up” entities in your world appear. Out of all these imagined entities, you have simply made the mistake of thinking that one of them is you.

When you need an idea about how to do anything, get quiet and relaxed and think about what it is you need to know. Then the flow of ideas will come. Be patient and let...

Full minds create chaos.