Ability Quote by Sakyong Mipham

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

Thinking is the natural activity of the mind. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. Meditation is simply a process of resting the mind…

— Eric Swanson

Meditation is not a matter of trying to stop thinking or make your mind go blank but rather to realize when your attention is…

— Sharon Salzberg

Meditation gives you two things: equanimity and creativity. And it does that by taking one from their conscious mind, where there's all that noise…

— Ray Dalio

Meditation is a process in which we're essentially, at first, breathing out. We're exhaling existence, taking it out of the mind, and the mind…

— Frederick Lenz

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

— Ramana Maharshi

“Thoughts that you do not let go leave an imprint on your mind. That imprint is the residue. Meditation is the process of washing…

— Om Swami

Meditation is a practice of detaching and then stopping ourselves from thinking; our thoughts are interruptions in the flow of awareness. Consciousness, in its…

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or 'mind traffic' that gets in the way of just whatever is between you…

— Trudie Styler

“We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves…

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

— Eckhart Tolle

The main factor in meditation is to keep the mind active in its own pursuit without taking in external impressions or thinking of other…

— Ramana Maharshi