3,675 Quotes About Meditation

Om is the vibrational representation of creation.

One thing about the om meditation is certain: It is a universal sound that is representative of the unity that’s needed to empathize with those around us.

Dzogchen attempts to discover “pure mind”—the absolute nature of reality.

The premise of tonglen is, at a very basic level, to breathe in suffering and breathe out joy.

You will feel when the mediation is complete. The joy and healing will remain for all time.

A mud pie is, at the end of the day, attractively packaged mud. A life spent in pursuit of comfort and leisure—of being a slave to your attachments—is, at the end of the day, attractively packaged suffering.

Praying for peace is wonderful; meditations on loving kindness and compassion are sublime; acts of generosity and healing have the power to change the world. But when all three come together in a selfless act of devotion, miracles occur.

In making a path like the Buddha, we discover our own capacities for relationship. Doing this is like feeling our way in the dark. We need a healthy appreciation for what kind of obstacles we are facing within ourselves, and we need a method for working our way around those obstacles. It is in this sense that the path is the goal - opening leads to further opening. The Buddha's meditative teachings are about finding and incorporating a method around our obstacles.

Like meditation, psychotherapy has the potential to reveal how much of our thinking is an artificial construaction designed to help us cope with an unpredictable world.