Accepting reality Quote by Pema Chodron

Everything in the world is conducted by gradual process. This seems to be the great principle of harmony in the universe.

— William Godwin

“We have to make a consideration: emotional states are deeply influenced by external events, and here lies the problem. Since the external events are…

— Andrea Dandolo

Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

I have seen that there are a number of people who benefit from doing loving kindness meditation, either prior to or along with mindfulness…

— Sharon Salzberg

The basic root of happiness lies in our minds; outer circumstances are nothing more than adverse or favourable.

— Matthieu Ricard

When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Of all footprints, that of the elephant is supreme. Similarly, of all mindfulness meditations, that on death is supreme.

— Gautama Buddha

We have only now, only this single eternal moment opening and unfolding before us, day and night.

— Jack Kornfield

If you want to experience the unalloyed ecstasy of life, you can accomplish this through the twin Buddhist practices of meditation and mindfulness.

— Frederick Lenz

The whole secret of existence is to have no fear.

— Gautama Buddha

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

— Sivananda

Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

It feels good. Kinda like when you have to shut your computer down, just sometimes when it goes crazy, you just shut it down…

— Ellen DeGeneres

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation.

— Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

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

— Alan Watts