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Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hang, Stepping into Freedom: An Introduction to Buddhist Monastic Training
It is only through meditation that we can get lasting peace, divine peace. If we meditate soulfully in the morning and receive peace for only one minute, that one minute of peace will permeate our whole day.
Sri Chinmoy, The Wisdom of Sri Chinmoy
If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation
The problem with introspection is that it has no end.
Philip K. Dick
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.
Thich Nhat Hanh
When somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can’t be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences.
Alan Wilson Watts, Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation
Meditation is simply the practice of stopping and looking deeply. You do not need to sit to meditate. Anytime you are looking deeply—whether you are walking, chopping vegetables, brushing your teeth, or going to the bathroom—you can be meditating.
Thich Nhat Hanh, How to Sit
Look at a tree, how calm, lovely and beautiful she is. She is always meditating for the love of the sun.
Debasish Mridha
There are four parts to each breath cycle – the inhale, the exhale, and the spaces in between.
Leo Lourdes, A World of Yoga: 700 Asanas for Mindfulness and Well-Being
Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life
Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.
Matthieu Ricard
To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.
J. Krishnamurti
Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.
Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
Kurt Vonnegut, Palm Sunday: An Autobiographical Collage
Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms
In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal—quite the opposite.
Pema Chödrön, The Pocket Pema Chodron
Meditation is cleaning up clutter in the backyard of our mind, triggering a shift in our thinking, and reshaping a drained logic in our mental network, giving voice to fresh concepts and new emotions.
Erik Pevernagie
Life is a dance. Mindfulness is witnessing that dance.
Amit Ray, Mindfulness Living in the Moment – Living in the Breath
Meditation is a way of being, not a technique. Meditation is not about trying to get anywhere else. It is about allowing yourself to be exactly where you are and as you are, and the world to be exactly as it is in this moment, as well.
Jon Kabat-Zinn, Arriving at Your Own Door: 108 Lessons in Mindfulness
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Voltaire
Meditation is an alert state of mind, the opposite of sluggishness; meditation is wisdom. You should remain aware every moment of your daily life, fully conscious of what you are doing and why and how you are doing it.
Thubten Yeshe, Becoming Your Own Therapist
Open the window of your mind. Allow the fresh air, new lights and new truths to enter.
Amit Ray, Walking the Path of Compassion
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous.
Jane Austen, Persuasion
Without suffering, there’s no happiness. So we shouldn’t discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.
Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering
We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love.
Paul O’Brien
The act of meditation is being spacious.
Sogyal Rinpoche
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.
Sharon Salzberg, Real Happiness: The Power of Meditation
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
Hélène Cixous, “Coming to Writing” and Other Essays
When you enter a place of stillness, you awaken the divinity within you.
Peggy Sealfon, Escape From Anxiety–Supercharge Your Life with Powerful Strategies from A to Z
The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth.
Alan Wilson Watts
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. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.
Sylvia Boorstein, Don’t Just Do Something, Sit There: A Mindfulness Retreat with Sylvia Boorstein
