[W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. – Sivananda Saraswati
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging. – Yeshe Dorje
Ive always believed in peoples capacity for goodness. I still believe that people are good. What Im not so trusting about anymore is their relationship to their own goodness. – Anne Hathaway
Down the road, Ill probably have a kid or two or three. And there will probably be political events or spiritual things to comment on, and humor. – Alanis Morissette
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos. – Edward O. Wilson