D. H. Lawrence Quotes

I guess the biggest thing is that I committed to a spiritual center before I do anything else. And I put some daily things in my life into practice and I maintain that, to make sure that I don't drop the ball.

I pray and meditate every morning for anywhere between 15 to 50 minutes.

Meditation is the movement of love. It isn't the love of the one or of the many. It is like water that anyone can drink out of any jar.

One should hallow all that one does in one's natural life. One eats in holiness, tastes the taste of food in holiness, and the table becomes an altar. One works in holiness, and raises up the sparks which hide themselves in all tools. One walks in holiness across the fields, and the soft songs of all herbs, which they voice to God, enter into the song of our soul.

I don't miss my prayers and I don't miss my yoga. Those things are important to me.

We undertake certain spiritual exercises to achieve alignment with the creative energy of the universe.

Being the Stream Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. Meditation may take one out of the world, but it also puts one totally into it.

It is possible to offer fervent prayer even while walking in public or strolling alone or seated in your shop ... while buying or selling ... or even while cooking.

During zazen, brain and consciousness become pure. It's exactly like muddy water left to stand in a glass. Little by little, the sediment sinks to the bottom and the water becomes pure.

Prayer is so incredibly powerful. It keeps you in perfect peace.

Meditation is silence. Silence is God In His Infinity's Smile.

There are those who, attracted by grass, flowers, mountains, and waters, flow into the Buddha Way.

People who meditate and have a good spiritual practice, their immune systems are stronger. Generally, they are happier and healthier.

Prayer is - not just bowing your head a few times a day, it pervades all of life.

Since learning Transcendental Meditation from Maharishi in December 1967, it has been a valuable practice which has enabled me to go through some very stressful life experiences while remaining centered.

My meditation is not something separate from life, it is something that has to be spread all over life.

With me, meditation is the only essential religion. And everything that follows it is virtue, because it comes of its own accord. You don't have to drag it, you don't have to discipline yourself for it. I have nothing to do with vegetarianism, but I know that if you meditate you are going to grow new perceptivity, new sensitivity, and you cannot kill animals.

Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence.

Meditation is not an act, it is a quality. Meditation is not something that you do - it is something that you become.

Stillness is our most intense mode of action. It is in our moments of deep quiet that is born every idea, emotion, and drive which we eventually honor with the name of action. We reach highest in meditation, and farthest in prayer. In stillness every human being is great.

The mind is responsible for the feelings of pleasure and pain. Control of the mind is the highest Yoga.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

Yoga is the stilling of the fluctuations of the mind.

He who knows even how to prepare a smoke properly, knows also how to meditate. And he who cannot cook well cannot be a perfect sannyasin. Unless cooking is performed with a pure mind and concentration, the food is not palatable.

A simple but radical spiritual practice is to accept whatever arises in the Now, within and without.