“Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the lake and clouds pass across the sky, but they soon disappear without altering the natural stillness.” MindNaturalClearMeditationImagineSkyEmptyCalmCloudsSurfaceDisappearLakesStillnessImagine ThatRipple Author:Kathleen McDonald
“Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go and do anything to meditate.” WayMindMeanStatesNaturalMeditationIntroduction Author:Frederick Lenz
“Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind, a balance is constantly maintained between the impressions from outward objects and the inward operations of the intellect:--for if there be an overbalance in the contemplative faculty, man thereby becomes the creature of mere meditation, and loses his natural power of action.” IfsThinkingMenMindActionProcessLosesNaturalAnimalMeditationObjectsBalanceHealthyCreaturesMereIntellectImpressionOperationsProportionFacultyInwardDistinguishedBrutesContemplative Book:Lectures Upon Shakspeare Source: Lectures Upon Shakspeare
“I've always understood that meditation had to be part of - or was part of the natural path and so I've always sort of dabbled in it.” NaturalPathMeditationUnderstood Author:Anne Lamott
“I was just a kid when I started doing this,yoga, meditation, natural foods, acupuncture - things like were seen as practically voodoo. And today you can go into any hospital and they'll have massage, and Chinese medicine, and therapy, and a prayer room.” KidsTodayNaturalPrayerRoomsMeditationYogaMedicineChineseTherapyHospitalsMassageVoodooYoga MeditationAcupunctureChinese Medicine Author:Elizabeth Lesser
“When a soul has advanced so far on the spiritual road as to be lost to all the natural methods of communing with God; when it seeks Him no longer by meditation, images, impressions, nor by any other created ways, or representations of sense, but only by rising above them all, in the joyful communion with Him by faith and love, then it may be said to have found God of a truth, because it has truly lost itself as to all that is not God, and also as to its own self.” WayMaySaidSoulSelfSpiritualFoundLostNaturalMeditationTruth IsAnd LoveMethodImpressionRisingJoyfulRepresentationCommunionRise AboveFaith And Love Author:John of the Cross
“Meditation is not something restricted to times of formal seated meditation; it is most fundamentally an attitude of being-a resting in and as being. Once you get the feel of it, you will be able to tune into it more and more often during your daily life. Eventually, in the state of liberation, meditation will simply become your natural condition.” FeelsStatesAbleNaturalAttitudeMeditationConditionsLiberationTunesDaily LifeFormal Author:Adyashanti
“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.” LifeInspirationalHelpingChangeNaturalHealingWorryMeditationCapacityEmbrace Author:Nhat Hanh
“Profound meditation in solitude and silence frequently exalts the mind above its natural tone, fires the imagination, produces the most refined and sublime conceptions. The soul then tastes the purest and most refined delight, and almost loses the idea of existence in the intellectual pleasure it receives. The mind on every motion darts through space into eternity; and raised, in its free enjoyment of its powers by its own enthusiasm, strengthens itself in the habitude of contemplating the noblest subjects, and of adopting the most heroic pursuits.” MindIdeasSoulLosesImaginationNaturalSpacePleasureExistenceSilenceFireMeditationSubjectsProduceTasteSolitudeIntellectualEternityProfoundRaisedDelightPursuitEnthusiasmToneEnjoymentConceptionHeroicContemplatingSublimeRefinedAdoptingDarts Author:Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann
“When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity--which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices--what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds. We break the illusion that we think our own thoughts, which is not always the case. Some ideas just arrive in our heads.” ThinkingMindIdeasHappensNaturalBreakPracticeCasesMeditationAwarenessIdentityPositionIllusionWitnessMysticalTranscendent Author:James Redfield
“Meditation is actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be simply and clearly present to whatever thoughts, sensations, or emotions occur.” MindStatesNaturalSimpleEmotionMeditationExerciseSensationsAllowing Author:Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
“Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.” MindStatesLostNaturalMeditationUnnatural Author:Rajneesh
“Sleep and meditation are key. Natural sleep for 8 hours will help remove toxins from the body, help consolidate memory, create order from chaos. Sleep activates good hormones that are associated with rejuvenation and slowing down the ageing process.” HelpingBodyOrderProcessHoursNaturalMemoriesSleepMeditationKeysChaosRemoveSlow DownAgeingHormonesSlowingActivateToxinsRejuvenation Author:Deepak Chopra
“By observing natural scientific discoveries through a perception deepened by meditation, we can develop a new awareness of reality. This awareness could become the bedrock of a spirituality that is not based on the dogmas of a given religion, but on insights into a higher and deeper meaning. I am referring to the ability to recognize, to read, and to understand the firsthand revelations.” RealitySpiritualityGivenNaturalAbilityMeditationAwarenessHigherPerceptionDiscoveryDeeperInsightRevelationsDogmaObservingReferringScientific DiscoveryBedrockDeeper Meaning Author:Albert Hofmann
“When you practice Dynamic Meditation for the first time this will be difficult, because we have suppressed the body so much that a suppressed pattern of life has become natural to us. It is not natural! Look at a child: he plays with his body in quite a different way. If he is crying, he is crying intensely. The cry of a child is a beautiful thing to hear, but the cry of an adult is ugly. Even in anger a child is beautiful; he has a total intensity. But when an adult is angry he is ugly; he is not total. And any type of intensity is beautiful.” IfsWayFirstsLooksChildrenDifferentPlayBodyBeautifulDifficultNaturalPracticeMeditationCryTypeAdultsFirst TimeAngerAngryPatternsUglyDifferent WaysIntensityBeautiful ThingsNatural Look Author:Rajneesh
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” LifeInspirationalDoeMotivationalEarthFallNatureNaturalMeditationApproachAttractionProductivityLaw Of AttractionAccomplishedTaoismTaoHasteMother NatureMeditatingEarth DayNature And EnvironmentNature BeautyNatural ThingsHurryingEarth And NatureGreen EarthTao Te ChingInspirational NatureSpiritual NatureNature ConservationNature And BeautyTake Your TimeBest NatureThe Wild NatureNature's BeautyBeauty Of The EarthBeing NaturalInspirational EarthTao WisdomRushing InAccomplishing Great ThingsGod's BeautySpiritual Beauty Author:Laozi
“In the unspoilt state of innocent childhood, practically every human being has a natural and direct feeling for the existence of God Almighty. But as time passes, this faith may be deflected and people start believing in other powers - political, economic or social.” PeopleLoveBelieveHumansMayStatesFeelingsWisdomPoliticalSpiritSocialNaturalHuman BeingsExistenceMeditationEconomicChildhoodYogaDirectInnocentWellnessAlmightyTime PassesExistence Of God Author:Nirmala Srivastava
“Since pure awareness of nowness is real Enlightenment, in openness and contentment I found the Truth in my heart. By simply relaxing in this uncontrived, open, and natural state, we obtain the quality of effortless freedom of whatever arises.” HeartRealStatesFoundNaturalQualityMeditationAwarenessMy HeartPureEnlightenmentAriseContentmentOpennessEffortless Author:Jigdral Yeshe Dorje
“The Buddha said that all conscious beings possess an enlightened nature. Because of that, we have this natural purity, peacefulness and power. We can rest the mind naturally because we are already in possession of these qualities. If one can rest the mind naturally, that's the best meditation.” IfsMindSaidNaturalQualityMeditationConsciousPossessionPurityEnlightenedPeacefulness Author:Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
“The basic nature of all conscious beings is 'self-existing wakefulness'. Self-existing meaning spontaneous or without effort and wakefulness meaning natural awareness. To ignore our basic nature, is to wander in fear and confusion, to directly realise our essential nature is to be Enlightened.” SelfSpiritualFearNatureNaturalEffortMeditationAwarenessEssentialsEnlightenmentConsciousConfusionWanderBuddhistEnlightenedRealisingSpiritual WisdomSpontaneousEnlightening Author:Tulku Urgyen Rinpoche
“We should cast aside all childish games that fetter and exhaust body, speech and mind. Stretching out in inconceivable nonaction, in the unstructured matrix, the actuality of emptiness, where the natural perfection of reality lies, we should gaze at the uncontrived sameness of every experience, all conditioning and ambition resolved with finality.” ShouldMindBodyRealityLyingGamesNaturalMeditationSpeechAmbitionPerfectionCastsEmptinessConditioningStretchingSamenessActualityFettersFinality Author:Longchenpa
“God dwells in you, as you, and you don't have to 'do' anything to be God-realized or Self-realized, it is already your true and natural state. Just drop all seeking, turn your attention inward, and sacrifice your ego mind to the One Self radiating in the Heart of your very being. For this to be your own presently lived experience, Self-Inquiry Meditation is a direct and immediate way.” WayMindHeartSelfStatesTurnsNaturalAttentionMeditationSacrificeEgoDirectSeekingInwardInquiry Author:Ramana Maharshi
“Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.” MindNaturalMeditationOceanInfiniteWaveKarmaHelplessBeatenExhaustedFuryNeuroticRelentlessSamsara Author:Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche