Meditation Quote by Benjamin Riggs

Meditation is not an escape from life... but preparation for really being in life.

— Nhat Hanh

Meditation is not an escape. Meditation is the acceptance of life in its totality, with a view to transforming it for the highest manifestation…

— Sri Chinmoy

“We have millions of ways to lose this precious time—we turn on the TV, or pick up the telephone, or start the car and…

— Thich Nhat Hanh

In meditation, we are going back into the light. All our pain will be taken away, our frustration.

— Frederick Lenz

“In other words, you could endlessly try to have suffering cease by dealing with outer circumstances—and that’s usually what all of us do. It…

— Pema Chödrön

“One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just…

— Pema Chödrön

Use all your suffering for meditation, and soon you will come to know that the suffering disappears because the energy starts moving inwards. It…

— Rajneesh

What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a…

— Hermann Hesse

“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better.”

— Pema Chödrön

The getting lost and recovering - that is the meditation.

— Dan Harris

“Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself. And, when one begins to understand oneself, not only the…

— Kalidas Joshi

Buddhism teaches us not to try to run away from suffering. You have to confront suffering. You have to look deeply into the nature…

— Nhat Hanh