Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.

Breathe and Be RebornInto the LightnessOf your Heart and Inner Truths.Speak...in the Silence of Dreams,Knowing the wordsBring the peace into your Soul.Radiant the Love that is your True Selfand Again...Be Reborn.

Most of our healing occurs during quiet moments of rest when we are in contact with unconscious feelings and experiences. I can't imagine life without the peaceful, insightful moments I have during meditation.

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 of ourselves.

Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it not escaping; living through it not escaping; being through it not escaping Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life

Just a little relaxation just a little looking inwards and the doors of immense potentialities open up You are no more a beggar Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe Just conquer yourself

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 are.

You must learn to tell worry from thought and thought from prayer. Sometimes a light will go from your life, and a thought becomes a prayer til you are strong enough to stand under the weight of your own thought again.

It can feel as if the entire body has dropped away or has become transparent as if its substance were in some way erased It can feel as if there is nothing but breath flowing freely across all the boundaries of the body

Life's only law is change. Everything is continuously changing, evolving and developing. Hindus say that it takes 840 million lives to become a human being, which emphasises the precious gift of being a human being.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times to be of the present nothing-but-in-the-present to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life

Concentration is… a relaxed mental state, where the stream of consciousness flows in a single direction, either focusing on a phrase or mental picture, or alternately, a state in which the mind is alert and aware.

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.

As I explore the wilderness of my own body, I see that I am made of blood and bones, sunlight and water, pesticide residues and redwood humus, the fears and dreams of generations of ancestors, particles of exploded stars.

An interval of meditation serious and grateful was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment