Cultivating Quote by Dalai Lama

Meditation is the way we realize the nature of the mind.

— Thubten Yeshe

Mind is madness. Only when you go beyond the mind, there will be meditation.

— Jaggi Vasudev

I do not perceive even one other thing, O monks, that when undeveloped and uncultivated entails such great suffering as the mind. The mind…

— Gautama Buddha

“Mindfulness is the difficult art of simply replacing thinking with experiencing.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

— Ramana Maharshi

Meditation is bringing the mind home.

— Sogyal Rinpoche

“Meditation is generally an alternation between the feeling of bliss and the witnessing of a thought having a problem with the having of thoughts.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that's been missing.

— Russell Simmons

Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the…

— Ramana Maharshi

Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing…

— Frederick Lenz

All too often people come to meditation in the hope of extraordinary results, like visions, lights, or some supernatural miracle. When no such thing…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.

— Rajneesh