Compassion Quote by Sharon Salzberg

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

Just as I sit down to meditate, all the vilest subjects in the world come up. The whole thing is nauseating. Why should the…

— Swami Vivekananda

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.

— Ramana Maharshi

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

— Rajneesh

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is…

— Pema Chodron

At the beginning of a meditation session your thoughts will be relatively earthbound. You will think about yourself, your world, problems, difficulties and anxieties.

— Frederick Lenz

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

— Evelyn Underhill

“Always remember, child" her first teacher had impressed on her, "that to think bad thoughts is really the easiest thing in the world. If…

— james clavell

Meditation, in the beginning, is just replacement thinking. Instead of having the usual negative things that wander around in your mind, you are replacing…

— Frederick Lenz

“All thoughts—good thoughts, bad thoughts, lovely thoughts, evil thoughts—occur within something. All thoughts arise and disappear into a vast space. If you watch your…

— Adyashanti

“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

If you are feeling good , it is because you are thinking good thoughts .

— Rhonda Byrne