Love is the process of melting into the other

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

Wisdom is a true activity of compassion. And so, meditation is the act of loving kindness. It is the activity where loving kindness is applied on all levels.

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

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.

The more we genuinely care about others the greater our own happiness & inner peace.

Some perceive God in the heart by the intellect through meditation; others by the yoga of knowledge; and others by the yoga of work. Some, however, do not understand Brahman, but having heard from others,...

But people of the deepest understanding look within, distracted by nothing. Since a clear mind is the Buddha, they attain the understanding of a Buddha without using the mind.

Relaxing the shoulders is vital for relaxation in general. However, owing to the effects of gravity, relaxation is problematic unless we let the shoulders remain in their natural place. Let the shoulders drop, or settle...

In enlightenment, the seer and the seen disappear. Or, more accurately, are seen through as illusions. In reality, they were never there, apart from being concept and misunderstanding.

True wisdom is being able to say ‘it is what it is’ with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

When I was in Darkness,I could find my Fullness

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody “I love you”, when you are considering your children, when you...

Meditace je opravdu jediná lidská činnost, ve které se nesnažíte dostat někam jinam, ale prostě si dovolíte zůstat tam, kde jste, a takoví, jací jste. Je to hořká medicína, která se špatně polyká, když se...

Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.

Mind can be your best friend or worst enemy.

If you keep on saying a single thing to yourself, you are likely to attract it to yourself, dreaming it always, then in a twinkle of an eye, it comes to you.

Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence.

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

We use mindfulness to observe the way we cling to pleasant experiences & push away unpleasant ones.

Whenever we decide to create a greater degree of change in our lives we need to start doing things differently. Any external change only reflects the inner transformation. Hence whenever we decide to change our...

God is the soul of the universe.

Society destroys your individuality, your soul.

When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.

yes” to life.

Above all, be at ease, be as natural and spacious as possible. Slip quietly out of the noose of your habitual anxious self, release all grasping, and relax into your true nature. Think of your...

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.

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....