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21 Inspiring and Transformative Quotes on Meditation

August 07, 2023 by Nicole Koch in Quotes

Meditation is an essential part of inner development. Sharing with you 21 quotes on meditation. In the unfoldment of inner processes, meditation is a central way of recognizing about tendencies of the mind and how to be in a compassionate and open space regardless of what arises in experience. Learn more about the upcoming Online Meditation Group.

“The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment.”
— Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Meditation is simply getting to know your mind.”
— Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche
“The act of meditation is being spacious.”
— Sogyal Rinpoche
“No matter how long the room has been dark, an hour or a million years, the moment the lamp of awareness is lit the entire room becomes luminous. You are that luminosity. You are that clear light.”
— Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche
“Meditation is offering your genuine presence to yourself in every moment.”
— Thich Nhat Hanh
“Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way – with awareness, balance, and love.”
— Sharon Salzberg
“I discovered the secret of the sea in meditation upon a dewdrop.”
— Khalil Gibran
“The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness.”
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.”
— Allan Watts
“Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one’s own self.”
— Osho
“There is no such thing as an ideal state of meditation. Awareness allows us to relate to our mental processes and to see the fundamental expression of mind as it is, including our thoughts.”
— Chögyam Trungpa
“Meditation is letting go of control, letting go of guiding our experience in any way whatsoever. The foundation of True Meditation is that we are letting go of control. In the end it’s all very simple. Either we give ourselves to Silence or we don’t.”
— Adyashanti
“Meditation is just being delighted in your own presence; meditation is a delight in your own being.”
— Osho
“Meditation is a means to discover all the glories of the ocean of mind.”
— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“The only true meditation is the constant impersonal witnessing of all that takes place in one’s life as mere movements in the universal consciousness.”
— Ramesh Balsekar
“Meditation transcends effort, practice, aims, goals and the duality of liberation and non-liberation.”
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
“Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong but just to watch it and move with it.”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being. ”
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
“Meditation is all about coming alive, right now! In meditation, we invite our attention to come out of the drama and complexity of our lives, out of the already-lived past and the uncertain future, and to return to this precious moment, the only moment there is. It’s about being in contact with life as it happens...”
— Jeff Foster
“When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.”
— Jack Kornfield
“The flowering of love is meditation. ”
— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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