Experience Quote by Gretchen Bleiler

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

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

— Ramana Maharshi

Mind only thinks, meditation lives.

— Rajneesh

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

— Jaggi Vasudev

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

— Geneen Roth

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

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

— Arianna Huffington

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

People think meditation is a huge undertaking. Don't think of it like that.

— Deepak Chopra

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

— Evelyn Underhill

Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

— Eknath Easwaran

If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti