Awakening Quote by James R. Swartz

Meditation is coming back to your original self, if we can use self without a sense of self. It's perfect, clear light, radiant, infinite…

— Frederick Lenz

With the practice of meditation you can move into other states of mind, sort of ungluing the glue that binds you to a particular…

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.

— Nhat Hanh

Outwardly one's life may suffer every kind of limitation, from bodily paralysis to miserable surroundings, but inwardly it is free in meditation to reach…

— Paul Brunton

The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.

— Henepola Gunaratana

Meditation is the way to individuality. It makes you a light unto yourself.

— Rajneesh

“Long before reaching this kind of stability in meditation, however, one can discover that the sense of self—the sense that there is a thinker…

— Sam Harris

“The naturalistic hypothesis that it’s the brain that constructs the sense of self, now being explored by neuroscientists and neuro-philosophers worldwide, is entirely consistent…

— Thomas W. Clark

“...afflictions arise from identifying with a false sense of self, whereas great contentment arises from seeing the true nature of things. If one believes…

— Karma Lekshe Tsomo

We could decide simply to remain absorbed in the mysterious, unformed, free-play of reality. This would be the choice of the mystic who seeks…

— Stephen Batchelor

Meditation is the ultimate selfless act, because when you meditate you are sacrificing your puny personality for the universal reality.

— Frederick Lenz

It turns out that our notions of what a 'self' is and how it might feel fulfilled have no more objective status than most…

— Maureen O'Hara