Ideals Quote by Pema Chodron

Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed…

— Jeff Kober

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

— Stephen Levine

Meditation is really a non-doing. It is the only human endeavor I know of being where you already are.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Meditation is simply a strange surgical method that cuts you away from all that is not yours and saves only that which is your…

— Rajneesh

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are.

— Pema Chodron

Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly…

— Chogyam Trungpa

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

You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking…

— Chogyam Trungpa

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

— Rajneesh

However you try to define meditation, it’s not that.

— Swami Brahmananda

Meditation is the way the mind is. That's why in Zen they call it the natural state, which means you don't have to go…

— Frederick Lenz