3,675 Quotes About Meditation

Mindfulness practice helps create space between our actual experiences and the reflexive stories we tend to tell about them.

Loving kindness practice helps us move out of the terrain of our default narratives if they tend to be based on fear or disconnection. We become authors of brand-new stories about love.

The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.

Until we begin to question our basic assumptions about ourselves and view them as fluid, not fixed, it’s easy to repeat established patterns and, out of habit, reenact old stories that limit our ability to live and love ourselves with an open heart.

Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.

Identifying the source of our personal narratives helps us to release its negative aspects and re-frame it in ways that promote wholeness.

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

Taking in another’s criticism, even when it’s offered out of love, requires courage.