Force Quote by Rajneesh

You have to learn to be very, very gentle to start with - with yourself eventually. Meditation is not something that you force. It…

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation can be like a battle with yourself, your thoughts, your body.

— Tara Stiles

Meditation requires courage. It requires the basic integrity, sincerity, respect towards your own being. At least don't deceive yourself.

— Rajneesh

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 actually a very simple exercise in resting in the natural state of your present mind, and allowing yourself to be simply and…

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

— Alan Watts

Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it…

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

Meditation develops the capacity to question your mind. Without it, you are at the mercy of every thought, every desire, every wave of emotion.

— Geneen Roth

If we are engaged in actions that cause pain and conflict to ourselves and others, it is impossible for the mind to become settled,…

— Jack Kornfield

“Meditation is not something that you can “do”; it is something that has to happen spontaneously, only when the practice has been perfected. However,”

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life.

— Tim McCarthy

Meditation is a violent act of separation from mass consciousness and direct access to power.

— Frederick Lenz