“Buddhist monks have known for centuries that meditation can change the mind. Now we are inspired by His Holiness to examine with our technology the precise brain changes that occur with practice... The unique collaboration on meditation is just beginning.” MindBrainKnownPracticeTechnologyMeditationCenturyUniqueInspiredBuddhistHolinessCollaborationPreciseMonkBuddhist Monk Author:Richard Davidson
“On the left is the realist tradition of the 19th century, with its impulse to social description, radical criticism and meditation on things as they are... culminating in Courbet at his mightiest (The Studio, The Funeral at Ornans and a portrait of a trout that has more death in it than Rubens could get in a whole Crucifixion).” WholeLeftSocialMeditationCenturyTraditionCriticismStudiosRadicalImpulseDescriptionFuneralPortraits19th CenturyRealistCrucifixionTroutRubens Author:Gustave Courbet
“Some people harbor the idea or belief that all teachers should teach for free. Obviously these people have never been teachers, particularly in the twentieth century. Teaching meditation is a very expensive hobby.” PeopleShouldIdeasBeliefTeachTeacherMeditationTeachingCenturyBuddhismExpensiveHobbiesTwentieth CenturyHarborsRama Author:Frederick Lenz
“Meditation should be the foremost technology of the 21st century; the technology of reprogramming the non-spatial universal computer.” ShouldTechnologyMeditationCenturyComputerUniversal21st CenturySpatial Author:Kedar Joshi
“Don't be surprised if in the 21st century lectures on meditation appear in university catalogues for physics.” IfsMeditationCenturyUniversityPhysics21st CenturyLecturesCatalogues Author:Gary Zukav
“After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.” WayLifeEyeUniverseUnderstandingSleepAnswersMorningMillionsSunMeditationCenturyColorPlanetsInspirational LifeGratitudeHundredWake UpSpendingNobleDecadesGet UpBotherEnlightenedInsightfulSparklingInspirational ChristmasSumptuousSense PerceptionUnderstanding The Universe Author:Richard Dawkins
“Meditation upon death does not teach one how to die; it does not make the departure more easy, but ease is not what I seek. Beloved boy, so willful and brooding, your sacrifice will have enriched not my life but my death. ... Centuries as yet unborn within the dark womb of time would pass by thousands over that tomb without restoring life to him, but likewise without adding to his death, and without changing the fact that he had been.” DoeFactsDiesEasyDarkBoysTeachMeditationSacrificeCenturyEaseBelovedWombTombsUnbornDepartureRestoringBrooding Author:Marguerite Yourcenar