I tell my students not to be frightened; in the history of…

“Enlightenment through spirituality versus sexuality is a chicken-and-egg situation. But I’m not bothered about what comes first—as long as I have both the chicken…

— Merlin Franco

Movement helps keep me centered. I am a disaster, for instance, at sitting meditation, but I'm pretty decent at walking meditation.

— Pam Houston

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

— Pema Chodron

“We don't have to be harsh with ourselves when we think, sitting here, that our meditation or our oryoki or the way we are…

— Pema Chödrön

I think for me to do a traditional sitting meditation I would really have to spend a couple weeks working at it. The only…

— Brett Dennen

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves.

— Pema Chodron

If every day you practice walking and sitting meditation and generate the energy of mindfulness and concentration and peace, you are a cell in…

— Nhat Hanh

Nirvikalpa Samadhi means you are sitting in meditation and you go beyond the planes of light to nirvana. Then you come back and here…

— Frederick Lenz

“In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.”

— Pema Chödrön

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather…

— Chogyam Trungpa

The inner cry is a very good way to meditate. As you're sitting there in meditation, just cry inwardly to God, to that source,…

— Frederick Lenz

The happiest moments are when we sit down and we feel the presence of our brothers and sisters, lay and monastic, who are practicing…

— Anonymous

While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. We can become the…

— Pema Chodron

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this…

— Jack Kornfield

When sitting in meditation, say, "That's not my business!" with every thought that comes by.

— Ajahn Chah