Ability Quote by Jon Kabat-Zinn

The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Meditation is a practice that fosters mental stamina, perseverance, and the ability to openly receive.”

— Amy Leigh Mercree

“The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.”

— Pema Chödrön

A mind in the present moment is meditation.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

— Alan Watts

“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at unextraordinary times, to be of present, nothing-but-the-present, to bear…

— Peter Matthiessen

“A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Enlightenment, meditation is really a shift in perception. It's not a thing that you go and do or become, since you're already that.

— Frederick Lenz

“Practice is the process of moving conscious action into subconscious and unconscious action.”

— Ted Agon

Nowness is the essence of meditation. Whatever one does, whatever one tries to practice, is trying to see what is here and now. One…

— Chogyam Trungpa

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

— Thubten Yeshe

Meditation may also be thought of as a technique by which we diminish the force of old thought habits and develop new ones.

— Dalai Lama