“Meditation is a practice that fosters mental stamina, perseverance, and the ability to openly receive.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace. — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
All that we are is the result of what we have thought; what we think we become. — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
“In meditation practice, we build the energy of awareness until it grows powerful enough to see entirely different levels of reality.” — Joseph Goldstein Copy Share Image
“The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.” — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth;… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Basically when I'm walking I'm not consciously writing or intending anything. In the manner I have learned from meditation practice, I let… — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
“Taoists do not look upon meditation as 'practice,' except in the sense that a doctor 'practices' medicine. They have no design to… — Alan W. Watts Copy Share Image
“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of present, nothing-but-the-present,… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
There are many good forms of meditation practice. A good meditation practice is any one that develops awareness or mindfulness of our… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
To understand the totality of this extraordinary thing called life, one must obviously not be too definite about these things. One cannot… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
There are many different aspects to a formal meditation practice. But the real meditation practice is how you interface with life from… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make… — John Welwood Copy Share Image
They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Sometimes people will think, I need to have pre-sanctioned spiritual joy. Getting joy from my contemplative meditation practice or getting joy from… — Moby Copy Share Image
Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground… — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
“One of the beautiful things about Buddhism is that it does not worship Buddha as a god or deity, but instead celebrates… — Lodro Rinzler Copy Share Image
I spent so much of my life reading about spirituality and reading about neuroscience and trying different meditation practices. It's a really… — Moby Copy Share Image
When we let go of wanting something else to happen in this moment, we are taking a profound step toward being able… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns.… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
Sleep is critical to me... at least eight or nine hours a night. I start to slow down my body and my… — Jane Fonda Copy Share Image
For me, meditation is a practice to get rid of useless junk cluttering my mind and useless ticks inhabiting my body. — Tara Stiles Copy Share Image
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness. — Sivananda Copy Share Image
If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You… — Ajahn Amaro Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart. — Sakyong Mipham Copy Share Image
The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side. — Henepola Gunaratana Copy Share Image
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. — Stephen Levine Copy Share Image
“Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto what’s going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of… — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into the eternal present. — H. E Davey Copy Share Image
The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment. — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
“A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.” — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing. — Pema Chodron Copy Share Image
The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime. — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The key to creating a home meditation practice is to create a space where the busyness stops.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
I've always said that lovingkindness and compassion are inevitably woven throughout meditation practice even if the words are never used or implied,… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
