3,675 Quotes About Meditation

Forcing Your body into a yoga pose is like brushing your teeth with a wire brush. You may get rid of the plaque but gingivitis will be the least of your concerns.

Resolutions, like all spiritual virtues, can be misused by the ego when mindfulness is absent. There are few things that will keep you in the bondage of habit like a grand resolution. It is like an empty box wrapped in the best ofintentions, yet lacking anything of substance.

Hell is indeed a fiery pit—but it’s not found in death, but rather in your stomachwhen you fail to speak your truth, live with integrity, or allow compassion to guide you.

There is a need somewhere in this world that only your dharma, fully expressed, can fulfill. The reason there is such overwhelming need in this world is because an overwhelming number of people have yet to find and express their dharma.

Yoga happens in the last 1% of a pose.

Life is hard but it never loses its grace. If you aren't hard enough you cannot live but if you're not tender you don't deserve to be alive.

Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.

There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.

Vipassana meditation is not an intellectual journey but an experiential awakening.