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What will carry us into living freedom is not the holding of attention so much as the holding of appreciation. — Adyashanti

What is meditation? When you empty yourself and let the universe come in you. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

The moment you function in the world without being concerned about what is happening to life around you, you are a Criminal. — Jaggi Vasudev

So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates. — Allan Lokos

Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing. — Helene Cixous

Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts. — Eknath Easwaran

The period of meditation is a time when we go back to the source. We go back to what we were before we were born. — Frederick Lenz

Don't try to be someone. Be yourself. This is what mediation should teach you. — Frederick Lenz

Being in touch with oneself is the meaning of meditation, to be aware of what is going on in your body, in your feelings, in your mind. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation is not about getting out of ourselves or achieving something better. It is about getting in touch with what you already are. — Pema Chodron

What we need is peace of mind. We can gain that only through the control of our mind. — Mata Amritanandamayi

What a miracle, that all we have to do to be beautifully loving creatures is just relax and allow. — Jay Michaelson

Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality. — Richard Gere

PlayStation 3 is another form of meditation. Come on, when you're on set, all day? That's what I do in my trailer, I just play PlayStation 3. — Steve Zahn

My live show is almost like a meditation. An emotional apex - that's what I want it to feel like. — Gallant

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there. — Jack Kornfield

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters. — Sharon Salzberg

That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself. — Daphne Zuniga

Through meditation, you can calm the mind and develop what is important to you. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

Mindfulness is the capacity to shine the light of awareness onto what's going on here and now. Mindfulness is the heart of meditation practice. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation is doing what you are doing - whether you are doing formal meditation or child care. — Norman Fischer

What makes us happy is to have a spiritual experience ... that experience of ecstasy in the deepest meditation; that's happiness. — Frederick Lenz

What harrowing is after sowing, the same is meditation after hearing
it hides the word. — Matthew Henry

To create something and not to be attached to what you have created is a spiritual process. — Jaggi Vasudev

What is really happening in meditation is that we are developing the ability to think when we want to, and to not think when we don't want to. — Sakyong Mipham

To be alone and to be drunk with your own aloneness is what meditation is all about. Be in the world, but don't be of it. — Rajneesh

So what is a good meditator? A good meditator meditates. — Allan Lokos

This is the central principle of meditation: we become what we meditate on. — Eknath Easwaran

Meditation is not what you do in the morning, that's practice. Meditation is the daily result of that practice. — Harbhajan Singh Yogi

A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice. — Jon Kabat-Zinn

If you know how to keep yourself pleasant within, irrespective of what is happening around you, Ultimate Liberation cannot be denied to you. — Jaggi Vasudev

Mindfulness meditation should be more than just watching what you are doing. What you really need to watch is your motivation. — Thubten Zopa Rinpoche

Whether you're keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it's the same thing. What's important is you're having a relationship with your mind. — Natalie Goldberg

Seek what you know as the highest. It does not matter whether it is going to happen or not - living with a vision itself is a very elevating process. — Jaggi Vasudev

What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own? — John Searles

What is the meaning of life? It is too great a phenomenon to fit into any meaning. — Jaggi Vasudev

Doing a show is very similar to what meditation is supposed to be: being there and being present in that space and time. — Gift Of Gab

Transcendental meditation is something that can be defined as a means to do what one wants to do in a better way, a right way, for maximum results. — Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

I think [Transcendental Meditation] is what people need. They don't need high minded talk, they need results. — Paul McCartney

You are not what you seem to be. You are one of God's endless dreams in search of wakefulness. Meditation is wakefulness. — Frederick Lenz

The emphasis in tantra is not what you find yourself doing, it's on meditation. — Frederick Lenz

What should we "do" with the mind in meditation? Nothing. Just leave it, simply, as it is. — Sogyal Rinpoche

What is meditation? Meditation is our conscious awareness of something vast and infinite within us. Meditation grants us Peace, Light and Bliss. — Sri Chinmoy

Pain is what gives rise to meditation — Haruki Murakami

Meditation is not about what's happening, it is about how we're relating to what's happening. — Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are. — Matthieu Ricard

On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,
And I begin to meditate about problems I make up. — Alberto Caeiro

Meditation is to the soul what the mirror is to the body. — Newton Gatambia

To understand what is right meditation there must be an awareness of the operation of one's own consciousness, and then there is complete attention. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about. — Osho

Kindness is really at the core of what it means to be and feel alive. — Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world. — Thich Nhat Hanh

Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight. — L.M. Browning

A man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing. — Pico Iyer

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Real happiness is something most people never know. What we experience in deep meditation, that ecstasy is beyond what human beings call happiness — Frederick Lenz

We need to meditate on what is peaceful. Once we have 'filled up' in this way, we once again have an abundance of love to send out into the world. — Jean Shinoda Bolen

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best - solve problems. — Bryant McGill

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up. — Alan Watts

Remember what people used to say about meditation? Now everyone is doing it. — Shirley Maclaine

We are what we think about and meditate on. Look around people! America is a buffet of violence; a total immersion. — Bryant McGill

Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition. — Sharon Salzberg