The closer we are to God, the richer we are

Pray as if you possess no will. Work as if everything depends on you.

You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.

There are no mistakes in Zentangle, so there is no need for an eraser. If you do not like the look of a stroke you have made, it then becomes only an opportunity to create...

It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated...

The singing Sun the signing moon the singing stars and the singing galaxies are the direct expression of the divine word AUM.

Jesus lived a life of deep meditation. If thoughts and words were physical objects, meditation would be the act of holding, examining, taking apart, tasting, smelling, listening to, and savoring in order to study and...

That narrow stretch of sand knows nothing in the world better than it does the white waves that whip it , caress it , collapse on to it . The white foam knows nothing better...

Way of flowers.” Through these Ways or Do forms, the Japanese have sought to realize the Way of living itself. They have approached the universal through the particular.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

You don’t have to go on a quest to “find” silence-it’s a matter of uncovering it right where you are. Think about it: if all external and internal sounds were eliminated, only silence would remain....

Belief is made up of the same non-substance of which we ourselves are composed. The test of any belief system, then, is the degree to which this same light is permitted to shine through.

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

Everyone in your culture knows this. Man was born to turn the world into paradise, but tragically he was born flawed. And so his paradise has always been spoiled by stupidty, greed, destructiveness, and shortsightedness.

Imagine a time before you had ever had chocolate. Going to lectures about chocolate would have been interesting. Reading about chocolate might have increased your appetite. But only tasting chocolate would have really made you...

Consistent happiness is an art – An art that involves taking and maintaining control of which thoughts you give attention to and which thoughts you disregard

Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have...

When you approach something to photograph it, first be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence. Then don’t leave until you have captured its essence.

Reality is non-directional, layered, and potential- all things at once and non-real in the sense that real is an unknown, so “real” is undefined and can not be experienced. Only your experience can be experienced,...

Bird leaves the land to enjoy the freedom; man leaves his thoughts to enjoy the silence. Meditation is man’s flying to the land of silence.

Contemplating the goodness within ourselves is a classical meditation, done to bring light, joy, and rapture to the mind. In contemporary times this practice might be considered rather embarrassing, because so often the emphasis is...

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

There is a place where there is freedom of fear and doubt, and that is within.

Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.

The human heart operates from two premises: “I Am Responsible” and “Only Love Works.

Silence is the invisible door to God. Silence is the inner door to become one with God.

The world we live in might not be free from pain, but you have the ability to create for yourself a world free from struggle.

Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.

We’re here to get to know and study ourselves. The path, the way to do that, our main vehicle, is going to be meditation, and some sense of general wakefulness.

Universe responds to the person who meditates daily.

Sadhana means the practice to closest to the GOD (Baba) and a Shivir means an environment in which the sadhakas get the opportunity and guidance to do sadhana in a perfect manner……………. i think.

Don’t wait for the right conditions. All you need for your growth is available to you in this moment

Do not expect too much from the world. We are here to give not to take.

The mountain has left me feeling renewed, more content and positive than I’ve been for weeks, as if something has been given back after a long absence, as if my eyes have opened once again....

Hence the aim of meditation, in the context of Christian faith, is not to arrive at an objective and apparently ‘scientific’ knowledge of God, but to come to know him through the realization that our...

The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.

El hombre que cabalga sobre los cuernos de un dilema termina con el culo pinchado.

When you know the knower within, you don’t need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don’t need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to...

The immense distance between God and humanity is the indispensable backdrop to a Christian idea of revelation. To reduce God to the level of human thought and human imagination, so that we can comprehend God,...

My friends think I’m outgoing, but I don’t travel as much outside as I do from the inside.

Noise is often a product of inner emptiness

Emotional baggage,” which is carried over from the past, colors our perceptions. Likewise, past conclusions and beliefs, based on reasoning that may or may not have been accurate, also tint our perception of reality. Retaining...

It’s only the ego that wants to surrender the ego; the real meaning of surrender does not involve anything external. It means to surrender to your true nature.

The author indicts “our culture’s rush toward efficiency, speed, quantification, and distraction” and counters with the value of “the time and attention required to find the best words and images and then hold them together...

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

Unless you are silent, you will notknow your urgent heart, how it beatsbetween the thin skin of yes and no.

Another aspect inviting contemplation is the fact that the affective tone of any feeling depends on the type of contact that has caused its arising. Once this conditioned nature of feelings is fully apprehended, detachment...

Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.

Daily meditation promotes self confidence, peace of mind and strong faith in God.

After a time, he felt a deeper rhythm, the rhythm of the stone and water, not the rhythm of his words and heartbeat. He breathed into this deeper rhythm, let it teach him a new...