A Collection of Quotes About Meditation
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A Collection of Quotes About Meditation
In meditation, we are invited to not judge what’s going on for us, but rather to be in relationship with whatever is happening with a sense of kindness and commitment. —Sebene Selassie
Meditation is not necessarily about generating intense concentration. It can be about the exact opposite: a slow, steady gentleness that adds no intensity to what already exists. —M. Sophia Newman
What happens when we sit is none of our business. The practice is to accept whatever arises instead of trying to control our experience. What we can control is our wise effort to be present with what is. —Narayan Helen Liebenson
You have to get dirty with your emotions. Meditation allows us to feel them, live them, and taste them completely. It gives us a lot of insight into why we do the things we do and why other people do the things they do. Out of this insight, compassion is born. —Pema Chödrön
Meditating with the body as our guide, we come to feel that, perhaps for the first time in our lives, we are in the presence of a being, our own body, that is wise, loving, flawlessly reliable, and worthy of our deepest devotion. —Reggie Ray
Something as simple as meditation, if done correctly, is a ritual embodiment of the enlightened condition. It is a whole body mudra. —Adyashanti
When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness. —Jack Kornfield
Meditation is not just a rest or retreat from the turmoil of the stream or the impurity of the world. It is a way of being the stream, so that one can be at home in both the white water and the eddies. —Gary Snyder
Meditation is about paying attention in a systematic way for no reason other than to be awake. —Jon Kabat-Zinn
The quieting of our mind is a political act. The world does not really need more oil or energy or food. It needs less greed, less hatred, less ignorance…. Through meditation and inner transformation, we can learn to make our own hearts a place of peace and integrity. —Jack Kornfield
Thoughts are endless, and they rush in to fill the yawning well of awareness. But one might learn to hold that space open, with practice. It may not stay empty—but one can choose what to let in. —Jeff Greenwald
Meditation isn’t only for certain talented or already serene people. You don’t have to be an ace at sitting still; you don’t have to wait until you’re uncrazed and decaffeinated. You don’t need to study anything before you begin. You can start right now. If you can breathe, you can meditate. —Sharon Salzberg from Real Happiness
We exhale, and we let go of the old moment. It is lost to us. In so doing, we let go of the person we used to be. We inhale and breathe in the moment that is becoming. We repeat the process. This is meditation. This is renewal. —Lama Surya Das
If you want to live a life of balance, start now. Turn off the news, meditate, turn on Mozart, walk through the forest or the mountains and begin to make yourself a zone of peace. —Jack Kornfield
Mindfulness is so often misconceived and misconstrued in books and movies and the popular imagination. It is mythologized as a place where noisome thoughts have ceased and we glide into what [Elizabeth] Gilbert calls a “never-shifting, nameless and changeless perfection of my own happiness.” Good luck with that.
Mind is wild. And meditation is about journeying into that wilderness, feeling unprepared and inadequate, but gradually discovering—like getting slowly wet walking through a mist—that there is a simple joy in putting one foot in front of the other, carrying our responsibilities and cares on our back, and feeling our way uncertainly through each unavoidable moment.” —Barry Boyce
