First step Quote by Dr BK Satyanarayan

In each meditation session, we gather knowledge about the mind through observation, questioning, and testing. We do this over and over, until we gradually…

— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche

“In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.”

— Pema Chödrön

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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

— Thubten Yeshe

Meditation teaches us to focus and to pay clear attention to our experiences and responses as they arise, and to observe them without judging…

— Sharon Salzberg

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

The first stage of meditation is simply to ignore thought; to become conscious that there is something beyond thought.

— Frederick Lenz

Pondering, which means to weigh mentally, to deliberate, to meditate, can achieve the opening of the spiritual eyes of one's understanding.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

This is the process of mental analysis, sifting through the selves, sifting through your thoughts, practicing mindfulness, learning to control thought.

— Frederick Lenz

At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties.

— Frederick Lenz

For years we practice meditation, like any art, and we get better at it each day. In the beginning it's just enough for us…

— Frederick Lenz

With mindfulness, we are learning to observe in a new way, with balance and a powerful disidentification.

— Jack Kornfield