“What acts as a far more effective circumstance for generating compassion and what, in fact, rouses us from our comfortable meditation seat is actually seeing or hearing others - encountering others directly, not just conceptually in our imagination.” FactsImaginationCompassionMeditationSeeingCircumstancesComfortableHearingSeats Book:The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra Source: The Gelug/Kagyu Tradition of Mahamudra
“Take another look at your life. Give thanks. Accept your circumstances. Give thanks. Count your blessings. Give thanks. Show up for each day's meditation. Be willing to give the basic tools a fair chance. They can help you find your way.” WayGivingLooksHelpingShowsChanceAcceptingMeditationWillingCircumstancesBlessingFairsToolsThanksEach DayCount Your Blessings Book:Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy Source: Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy
“We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.” JoySufferingMeditationCircumstancesSorrowBenefitsOvercomingEsteemRecognitionAdverse Author:John Calvin
“My wife and I took a sabbatical and we went from Europe to India, where we lived in an ashram for six months and did meditation and yoga vigorously, like from 5:00 in the morning until 10:00 in the night in very austere circumstances. I think then my practice became less superficial, more like the traditional definition of what meditation was: to truly find oneness.” ThinkingNightPracticeMorningMeditationWifeMonthsCircumstancesSixYogaEuropeIndiaDefinitionsMy WifeTraditionalOnenessSuperficialSix MonthsMeditation And YogaSabbatical Author:Karan Bajaj
“Everyone who has ever overcome hardship or adversity has done so in large part because he or she has chosen, consciously or unconsciously, to "let go" of their past hardship and pain by embracing, what I call, a Miracle Angle - a way of seeing their circumstances that allowed them to transform their circumstances into a spark for positive change.” WayDonePainPastMeditationSeeingCircumstancesLetting GoYogaOvercomingMiracleAdversityChosenWellnessHardshipSparksAnglePositive Change Author:Rod Stryker
“Aligning yourself with the intelligence of the universe means coming to understand your life's purpose and applying it fearlessly to life's circumstances.” MeanPurposeUniverseMeditationCircumstancesYogaWellness Author:Rod Stryker
“To meditate means to realize inwardly the imperturbability of the Essence of Mind. The reason why we are perturbed is because we allow ourselves to be carried away by the circumstances we are in. Those who are able to keep their mind unperturbed, irrespective of circumstances, have attained Inner Peace.” MindMeanReasonAbleRealizingMeditationCircumstancesEssenceInner PeaceReason WhyCarried Away Author:Huineng