Accepting Quote by Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice…

— Pema Chodron

The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security.…

— Chogyam Trungpa

“Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one…

— Sharon Salzberg

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

— Pema Chodron

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

— Rajneesh

Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

— Nhat Hanh

Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better person. It…

— Pema Chodron

The practice of meditation is a way of continuing one's confusion, chaos, aggression, and passion—but working with it, seeing it from the enlightened point…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone…

— Rajneesh

Meditation is to get out of your psychosis and to get out of your neurosis; it is simply to slip out of them.

— Rajneesh

“If we try to practice meditation without the foundation of goodwill to ourselves and others, it is like trying to row across a river…

— Joseph Goldstein