Habits Quote by Sam Harris

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

— Ramana Maharshi

Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.

— Arianna Huffington

“Mindfulness is very simple. It means you become intentionally aware of the present moment while paying close attention to your feelings, thoughts, and sensations…

— S.J. Scott

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when…

— Sakyong Mipham

“Mindfulness helps you shine the spotlight on negative thoughts that run rampant - and unchallenged - in your mind for years.”

— Carmel Sheridan

“When you bring mindful mindful awareness to your thoughts, you train your mind to settle, and, with time and practice, realize you don't have…

— Carmel Sheridan

I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have little involvement…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

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

Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.

— Dan Millman

“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

While you're meditating, all kinds of thoughts arise... You don't find your thoughts threatening or particularly helpful. They just become the general gossip of…

— Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation is not contemplation because it is not thinking at all - consistent, inconsistent, crazy, sane. It is not thinking at all; it is…

— Rajneesh