Meditation Quote by Pema Chödrön

Meditating has taught me to sit with my thoughts, my feelings, and just observe them.

— Elizabeth Vargas

“Sitting meditation begins with good posture.”

— Pema Chödrön

In the beginning, when you are meditating, just ignore thought. Shine it on. Then after you are comfortable sitting there, try selectively eliminating negative…

— Frederick Lenz

“In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.”

— Pema Chödrön

“In meditation, placing our attention on the breathing takes the mind from daydreaming, worrying, thinking, and fantasizing. It gives our mind something healthy to…

— Sakyong Mipham

“meditations as here offered, and when we think we have”

— Andrew Murray

Our thoughts will swim around and talk to us while we're sitting there, make fun of us, ignore us. But if you pay attention,…

— Frederick Lenz

Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies.

— Pema Chodron

Meditation is a microcosm, a model, a mirror. The skills we practice when we sit are transferable to the rest of our lives.

— Sharon Salzberg

“We practice so that each moment of our life becomes real life. And, therefore, when we meditate, we sit for sitting; we don't sit…

— Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Meditation is generally an alternation between the feeling of bliss and the witnessing of a thought having a problem with the having of thoughts.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Meditation is a balancing act between attention and relaxation.”

— B. Alan Wallace