Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol P. Christ

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Carol Moseley Braun

I think if we are actually going to accept our generation's responsibility, that's going to mean that we give our children no less retirement security than we inherited from our parents.

Carlos Mencia

Know your religion, know who you are and don't be ashamed.

Carlos Castaneda

Look at every path closely and deliberately, then ask ourselves this crucial question: Does this path have a heart? If it does, then the path is good. If it doesn't, it is of no use.

Carlos Castaneda

Only as a warrior can one withstand the path of knowledge. A warrior cannot complain or regret anything. His life is an endless challenge, and challenges cannot possibly be good or bad. Challenges are simply challenges.

Carlos Castaneda

The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves happy. The amount of work is the same.

Carlos Castaneda

The internal dialogue is what grounds people in the daily world. The world is such and such or so and so, only because we talk to ourselves about its being such and such and so and so. The passageway into the world of shamans opens up after the warrior has learned to shut off his internal dialogue

C. S. Lewis

A pleasure is full grown only when it is remembered.

C. S. Lewis

Those that hate goodness are sometimes nearer than those that know nothing at all about it and think they have it.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Edgar Cayce

Meditation is listening to the divine within

Nhat Hanh

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

Nhat Hanh

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Eva Mendes

It's tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I'm reaping them. It's a more overall kinda thing.

Henepola Gunaratana

The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.

Peter Matthiessen

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.

Chogyam Trungpa

Mindfulness is like a microscope; it is neither an offensive nor defensive weapon in relation to the germs we observe through it. The function of the microscope is just to clearly present what is there.

Eckhart Tolle

If your relationship to the present moment is not right - nothing can ever be right in the future - because when the future comes - it's the present moment.

Eckhart Tolle

Welcome to the present moment. Here. Now. The only moment there ever is.

Aristotle

Life cannot be lived, and understood, simultaneously.

Deepak Chopra

To be in touch with yourself requires great sensitivity to everything that's going on here and now.

Deepak Chopra

Every present moment will offer itself as a window onto eternity, a doorway to the infinite.

Ram Dass

The richness of a moment comes when it's both full and empty at the same time. The truth is, we live simultaneously in time and timelessness.

Ram Dass

I experience each moment like baklava: rich in this layer, and this layer, and this layer.

Dustin Moskovitz

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.