Meditation Practice Quotes

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Meditation practice is a way of making friends with ourselves. Whether we are worthy or unworthy, that's not the point. It's developing a friendly attitude to ourselves, accepting the hidden neurosis coming through.

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are.

To observe and watch one's own mind is something really interesting. The untrained mind will run and follow its old habit patterns. Because it has not been trained and taught, it will get lost in all kinds of stories and issues. Therefore we have to train our mind. The meditation practice in Buddhism is all about training one's own mind.

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit is to stop seeking something more or better or different, and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.

Your duty is to Be, and not to be this or that.

Mind is everything. What we think, we become.

Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

They wanted to preserve and protect the mystical knowledge gained from their meditation practices and pass it on to future civilizations they clairvoyantly saw were going to be born after the destruction of Atlantis

It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.

Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

There is only one meditation - the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts.

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

Meditation is listening to the divine within

If you have time to breathe you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.

Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.