3,675 Quotes About Meditation

We are animals descended from five billion years of wanting, striving, and seeking. And life just doesn’t cooperate. So we suffer. And so the solution to that problem is to upgrade our minds, in a distinctly ‘unnatural’ way, so that the mind clings less and lets go more.

At the last stages of the journey, there’s no journey at all.

In order to do anything about the suffering of the world we must have the strength to face it without turning away.

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

Every single moment is expressive of the truth of our lives when we know how to look.

Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.

Meditation is a cyclical process that defies analysis, but demands acceptance.

Through meditation we come to know that we are dying & being reborn in every moment.

Whenever the Christian idea of meditation is taken seriously, there are those who assume it is synonymous with the concept of meditation centered in Eastern religions. In reality, the two ideas stand worlds apart. Eastern meditation is an attempt to empty the mind; Christian meditation is an attempt to fill the mind. The two ideas are quite different.