Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is.
Meditation is listening to the divine within
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.
You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Do not even listen, simply wait, be quiet, still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet.
Meditation creates more time than it takes.
The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day
Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.
Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.
Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.
One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.
As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.
Simply notice that you're aware. At any given moment, you can choose to follow the chain of thoughts, emotions, and sensations that reinforce a perception of yourself as vulnerable and limited, or to remember that your true nature is pure, unconditioned, and incapable of being harmed.
It's helpful to remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing with whatever arises, without picking and choosing.
The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun when they are concentrated they illumine.
We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do.
If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.
Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.
It is never too late to turn on the light. Your ability to break an unhealthy habit or turn off an old tape doesn't depend on how long it has been running; a shift in perspective doesn't depend on how long you've held on to the old view. When you flip the switch in that attic, it doesn't matter whether its been dark for ten minutes, ten years or ten decades. The light still illuminates the room and banishes the murkiness, letting you see the things you couldn't see before. Its never too late to take a moment to look.
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we've been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.
The you that goes in one side of the meditation experience is not the same you that comes out the other side.
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