“Spirituality is about being ready. All the spiritual disciplines of your life - prayer, study, meditation or ritual, religious vows - are there so you can break through to the eternal. Spirituality is about awakening the eyes, the ears, the heart so you can see what's always happening right in front of you.” HeartEyeSpiritualSpiritualityReligiousPrayerBreakStudyMeditationFrontsReadyDisciplineEternalHappeningsEarsAwakeningRitualRealismVowBreak ThroughSpiritual Disciplines Author:Richard Rohr
“Straight away, remove yourself from the field of spiritual progression , stay away from contemplation and skillful discourse, do not do research or meditate on the divinities, and stop concentrating and reciting textbooks! Tell me, what is the absolute nature of reality which allows no room for doubt? Listen carefully! Stop holding on to this or that, inhabit your true absolute nature, and peacefully enjoy the essence of what it is to be alive!” LifeWisdomRealitySpiritualFaithEnjoyRoomsDoubtMeditationAliveAwarenessHuman NatureFieldsInspirational LifeListeningMindfulnessMusicianResearchEssenceAbsolutesCarefulAwakeningBuddhistLive LifeContemplationDivinityRemoveAllowingSpiritual WisdomDiscourseStoppingLiving My LifeEnjoy LifeTheologianHolding OnProgressionSpiritual AwakeningTextbooksConcentratingSkillfulReciting Author:Abhinavagupta
“Ah, if I could realize, if I could forget myself and devote my meditations to the freeing, the awakening and the blessedness of all living creatures everywhere I'd realize what there is, is ecstasy.” IfsRealizingForgetMeditationCreaturesAwakeningIf I CouldEcstasyLiving CreaturesBlessedness Book:The Dharma Bums Source: The Dharma Bums
“In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.” FactsEarthMeditationDangerBuddhismSpeciesAwakeningAwake Author:Nhat Hanh
“In meditation and/or intense life interfaces, our personal view is often superseded by Self's, causing our apparent reality and all of it's limitations to disappear.” SelfRealityViewsMeditationDisappearAwakeningIntenseLimitationInterfacesPersonal Views Author:James R. Swartz
“When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.” MindI CanFoundMy OwnPracticeMeditationHugeYogaDirectAwakeningI RealizedMoodYoga Practice Author:MC Yogi
“I feel there is a great spiritual awakening on the planet right now. More than any previous time, people are drawn to meditation, to mindfulness, to yoga. These have become mainstream in the West because there is a hunger.” PeopleFeelsSpiritualMeditationPlanetsRight NowMindfulnessYogaWestHungerAwakeningMainstreamSpiritual AwakeningGreat Spiritual Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos
“A quiet mind is all you need. All else will happen rightly, once your mind is quiet. As the sun on rising makes the world active, so does self-awareness affect changes in the mind. In the light of calm and steady self-awareness, inner energies wake up and work miracles without any effort on your part” WorldNeedsMindDoeSelfLightHappensEnergyEffortSunMeditationAwarenessQuietMiracleWake UpSelf AwarenessCalmActiveAwakeningRisingSteady Author:Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Sahaja Yoga has cured people from cancer, from all kinds of diseases which they call incurable. How? Just by awakening the Kundalini. Sahaja Yogis don't go to any doctor, they had become doctors without studying Medicine. They treat the basics. While science is analysis, like a tree has got some leaves and are showing the symptoms of some disease they try to treat the leaves. But if you have to treat the leaves, you cannot do any justice, you have to go to the roots and treat the sap! And that is how - that is the only way you can treat the tree.” PeopleIfsWayLoveTryingKindWisdomSpiritJusticeStudyMeditationTreeDiseaseYogaRootsDoctorsTreatsMedicineCancerAwakeningAll KindsAnalysisWellnessSymptomsBasicsSapYogiSahaja Yoga Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“In meditation, silently and serenely, all words are transcended. In Illumination, all things appear as is. Silence is the ceasing of ego-grasping. Illumination is the functioning of the wonder of wisdom. The unity of these two is awakening to Buddha Nature.” TwoSilenceWonderMeditationEgoAll ThingsUnityAwakeningSilence IsIlluminationGraspingBuddha Nature Author:Sheng-yen
“Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This has to be carefully removed by living in a state of constant identification with the supreme non-dual Self. Full Awakening is the eventual ceasing of all the mental impressions of being an ego.” Has BeensStillsSelfStatesStrongMeditationEgoRemainsConstantAwakeningSupremeImpressionAgentsRealisedIdentificationObstinate Author:Adi Shankara