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 practice is relevant because in meditation our conceptual mind relaxes and we can feel who we are at heart. — Sakyong Mipham 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 simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others. — Joko Beck Copy Share Image
After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be! — Wes Nisker Copy Share Image
Yoga has expanded beyond asana for me. It's how I live my life and currently I'm throwing myself into a meditation practice. — Kathryn Budig Copy Share Image
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax! — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
I get energy from meditation practice and from eating healthy fresh food, only one cup of espresso in the morning, and not… — Richard Simmons Copy Share Image
“One exceptional morning, the Dalai Lama even introduced the Archbishop to his meditation practice in his private residence, and the Archbishop gave… — Dalai Lama XIV Copy Share Image
As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until… — James Finley Copy Share Image
The trick to keeping your meditation practice alive, not simply consistent but wonderful, is you need to bring a certain will or… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as… — Sylvia Boorstein Copy Share Image
It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or… — Sharon Salzberg Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
A lot of people have realized that a good spiritual practice and a good meditation practice have real benefit. It’s not just… — Moby Copy Share Image
Be mindful, which is more of a passive meditation practice. It is passive when you are active. Then there is active meditation,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
“If people think they can “do” meditation, then they become frustrated every time they don’t achieve the state. In the same way… — Gudjon Bergmann Copy Share Image
“Particularly when it comes to chaos magic, building your own optimal metaphysics becomes more challenging when you have to shoehorn it into… — Gordon White Copy Share Image
Meditation practice begins by sitting down and assuming your seat cross-legged on the ground. You begin to feel that by simply being… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
“Most people are meditating on what they like, or don’t like. Most people are meditating on how to be happy, how to… — Bodhisattva Shree Swami Premodaya Copy Share Image
“In meditation practice, we neither hold the mind very tightly nor let it go completely. If we try to control the mind,… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
You are a Buddha, and so is everyone else. I didn't make that up. It was the Buddha himself who said so.… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Practicing meditation is just like breathing. While working we breathe, while sleeping we breathe, while sitting down we breathe... Why do we… — Ajahn Chah Copy Share Image
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… — Eva Mendes Copy Share Image
You can go through hundreds of lifetimes in one, and it all starts with daily meditation practice. — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured. — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
“Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
The expectations you bring to meditation practice are often the greatest obstacles you will encounter. — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. — Alan Watts Copy Share Image
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as… — Chogyam Trungpa Copy Share Image
One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the… — Elizabeth Lesser Copy Share Image
Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace. — Swami Muktananda Copy Share Image
“Meditation is a practice that fosters mental stamina, perseverance, and the ability to openly receive.” — Amy Leigh Mercree Copy Share Image
We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment ‘practice’ or ‘meditation practice.’ — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the… — Peace Pilgrim Copy Share Image
“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
“In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.” — Pema Chödrön Copy Share Image
Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that… — Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche Copy Share Image