3,675 Quotes About Meditation

Meditation is for many a foreign concept, somehow distant and foreboding, seemingly impossible to participate in. But another word for meditation is simply awareness. Meditation is awareness.

Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect, what’s the use, of wisdom or knowledge? Understanding. When you understand mind, you’re not at its mercy. When you don’t understand, you’re lost in the midst of it.

There are several different kinds of painful feelings that we might experience, and learning to distinguish and relate to these feelings of discomfort or pain is an important part of meditation practice, because it is one of the very first things that we open to as our practice develops.

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one; that is to say it is an internal process, and not external.

Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.

Let quietness instruct you.

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.