Arise Quote by Dan Millman

While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of…

— Chogyam Trungpa

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

— Ramana Maharshi

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

— Arianna Huffington

The fruit of meditation is not the absence of thoughts, but the fact that thoughts cease to harm us. Once enemies, they become friends.

— Bokar Rinpoche

I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is…

— Pema Chodron

“Thoughts that you do not let go leave an imprint on your mind. That imprint is the residue. Meditation is the process of washing…

— Om Swami

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when…

— Sakyong Mipham

Thinking is the natural activity of the mind. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. Meditation is simply a process of resting the mind…

— Eric Swanson

Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source…

— Paracelsus

Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

“The principal enemy of mindfulness—or of any meditative practice—is our deeply conditioned habit of being distracted by thoughts. The problem is not thoughts themselves…

— Sam Harris