3,675 Quotes About Meditation

Buddha first taught metta meditation as an antidote: as a way of surmounting terrible fear when it arises.

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

While I meditate on the gulf towards which I travelled, and reflect on my youthful disobedience, for these things I weep, mine eye runneth down with water.

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

To relinquish the futile effort to control change is one of the strengthening forces of true detachment & thus true love.

We are all in this together. Our happiness inextricably is tied to that of all beings.

Stillness offers an experience of being and a recognition that being . . . my essence . . . is a part of all Being, all Essence.

Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.