3,675 Quotes About Meditation

When a gardener plants seeds they wait for them to grow, in the knowledge that they will ripen in their own time; so with our practice, we take a relaxed step back and allow it to mature naturally, in its own time. Appreciating this helps us to have a relaxed approach to our training, and means we are making a significant investment in the mental health of our future self. We will come to experience all the beneficial effects of our practice.

The Buddha told his disciple Ananda to see impermanence, to see death with every breath. We must know death; we must die in order to live. What does that mean? To die is to come to the end of our doubts, all our questions, and just be here with the present reality. You can never die tomorrow; you must die now. Can you do it? If you can do it, you will know the peace of no more questions.

There is no entertainment better than the process of understanding yourself

Let go of something to gain everything; let go of fraction to gain the whole.

If you have done something foolish, swallow the bad feeling and close the circle. If you carry around the guilt, it will push you down a spiral path.

You can meditate even while chopping carrots: The metal of knife has come from Earth, carrots have come from Earth, body is nothing but refined Earth. It's all a dance of Earth and you are the eternal watcher, the soul.

Who is in the center of control? Is it my devotion to that which is grater than me, encouraging me to be? Or is it I, myself, that has an agenda here that is looking not to be? That is the question.

There is no mental cure like meditation.

There is no mental cure like meditation on pure thoughts.