Quotes on Meditation Practice

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

So, in meditation practice, the best way to get somewhere is to let go of trying to get anywhere at all.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.

If every 8 year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation

Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.

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

What's encouraging about meditation is that, even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.

Mindfulness helps us get better at seeing the difference between what’s happening and the stories we tell ourselves about what’s happening, stories that get in the way of direct experience. Often such stories treat a fleeting state of mind as if it were our entire and permanent self.