Befriending Quote by Pema Chodron

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

— 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

Meditation is simply about being yourself and know about who that is.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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 is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s…

— Sharon Salzberg

“Not everyone wants to take up meditation, but most people can feel an alignment with values like mutual respect, insightful investigation, listening to one…

— Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is like the cloak of the good thief. You find a corner or somewhere where you can actually entertain your own self and…

— Alice Walker

Meditation practice is simply moving from a life of hurting myself and others to a life of not hurting myself and others.

— Joko Beck

Meditation is really quite simple. All we have to do is embrace each experience with awareness and open our hearts fully to the present…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

Meditation is the process of understanding your own mind.

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path…

— Howard Zinn

Meditation is one of the greatest arts in life - perhaps the greatest, and one cannot possibly learn it from anybody, that is the…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti