Laura Esquivel Quotes

Definitely, I think it's much more acceptable, the idea of meditation or yoga. The idea of God trying to contact the soul within ourselves. Back in the 60s it was a bit like, you know , the hippies or the philosophers were the only people.

Meditation makes you innocent, it makes you childlike. In that state, miracles are possible. That state is pure magic.

Changing is not just changing the things outside of us. First of all we need the right view that transcends all notions including of being and non-being, creator and creature, mind and spirit. That kind of insight is crucial for transformation and healing.

You use the body as a medium to bring the mind back to the brain. Perfect married between body and mind. Then, you can knock the door to the spirit.

I'm like a hippie. At the end of the day, that's what my voice caters to.

I'm into yoga, I meditate all the time, I'm vegetarian.

My parents were hippies. They met at an ashram, where they were studying how to be enlightened.

Rajneeshism is creating a Noah's Ark of consciousness, remaining centered exactly in the middle of the cyclone. You can only escape within, and that's what I teach. I do not teach worship of God or any other ritual but only a scientific way of coming to your innermost core.

I'm very much a hippie from Northern California.

Yoga means union. Union means the boundaries of the individual self-dissolve, and you experience existence as yourself.

Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.

I don't believe in a new-age movement; I'm not a hippy.

I found meditation. It was more out of pure desperation: I just started to wake up at 5 and sit for one hour, and suddenly, day after day, piece by piece, I could really feel I was coming back into me.

Except witnessing, I don't teach anything else. So just witness your mind and the meditation will be happening. And once you have got in tune with your being, you know the way, you know the how. Then it does not matter where you are. Alone or in the crowd, in the silences of the forest or in the noises of a marketplace, it is all the same. You can simply close your eyes and disappear inwards.

I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.

Meditation is the progressive quieting of our mind, until we reach the source of thought, which in wisdom traditions are the realm of our soul and spirit. In this domain of awareness there is infinite creativity, synchronicity, the power of intention, and freedom from limitations.

The one who can dissolve her mind will suddenly discover the Tao at her feet.

Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.

Yoga will always be transformationa l, even when it stops being cool.

The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.

Every teacher of Transcendental Meditation is a hero.

I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.

A hippie is someone who looks like Tarzan, walks like Jane and smells like Cheetah.

You can't make a date with enlightenment.

I'm just kind of a hippie. Age is not that relevant to the music.