3,675 Quotes About Meditation

While the primary function of formal Buddhist meditation is to create the possibility of the experience of "being," my work as a therapist has shown me that the demands of intimate life can be just as useful as meditation in moving people toward this capacity. Just as in formal meditation, intimate relationships teach us that the more we relate to each other as objects, the greater our disappointment. The trick, as in meditation, is to use this disappointment to change the way we relate.

Among the values of meditation is that it carries consciousness down to a deeper level, thus letting man live from his centre, not his surface alone. The result is that the physical sense-reactions do not dominate his outlook wholly, as they do an animal's. Mind begins to rule them. This leads more and more to self-control, self-knowledge, and self-pacification.

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect.

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy when you reach the destination.

Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.

Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.