25 quotes
“Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.”
— Patanjali
“Meditation is not about becoming a different person, a new person, or even a better person. It is about training in awareness.”
— Jack Kornfield
“The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.”
— Milarepa
“If every eight year old in the world is taught meditation we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation.”
— Dalai Lama
“True meditation is not about controlling or changing anything it is about falling in love with what is”
— Jeff Foster
“People look for retreats for themselves in the country, by the coast, or in the hills. But nowhere can a person retreat more peacefully than into their own soul.”
— Marcus Aurelius
“The world is its own magic and the practice of meditation is to see that magic”
— Shunryu Suzuki
“We sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remains”
— Li Bai
“Remember, it is being aware of thoughts, not getting rid of them, that is the point.”
— Andy Puddicombe
“The act of meditation is being spacious and allowing thoughts to dissolve on their own”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.”
— Francis of Assisi
“We sit together the mountain and me until only the mountain remains.”
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
“We sit together, the mountain and me, until only the mountain remains.”
“Do not just do something, sit there.”
— Sylvia Boorstein
“The greatest meditation is a mind that lets go”
— Mooji
“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”
— Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
“Meditation is not about trying to throw yourself away and become something better. It is about befriending who you are already.”
— Chogyam Trungpa
“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device you can use it anywhere anytime unobtrusively”
— Sharon Salzberg
“The goal of meditation is not to control your thoughts, it is to stop letting them control you.”
— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche
“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way its about feeling the way you feel”
— Bhante Gunaratana
“The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present.”
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