Quotes about Meditation

Make the practice pleasant, that is what I beg you to do.

True happiness isn't found in success, money, fame, or power. True happiness should be found in the here and the now. With that kind of insight you can truly relax.

You have to train yourself, to learn how to go home to the present moment, to the here and now.

Now I see that if one doesn't know how to die, one can hardly know how to live - because death is a part of life.

Everything is in your own heart.

Contemplating a beautiful sunrise, you're not distracted by thinking about the past or the future. The more concentrated you become, the more you see the beauty all around you. So concentration is a source of happiness.

Whenever a painful feeling or emotion arises, we should be able to be present with it, not fight it, but recognize it.

Knowledge is the first obstacle of the mind that a meditator should be able to remove. We should not be too sure of anything.

Meditation consists of generating three kinds of energy: mindfulness, concentration, and insight. These three energies give us power to nourish happiness and take care of our suffering. Suffering may be there. But with the energy of mindfulness, concentration, and insight, we can embrace and take care of that suffering and nourish happiness at the same time.

We need a small space where we can take care of our nervous system and restore our tranquility and peace.

The energy of mindfulness has the element of friendship and loving kindness in it.

We should treat our anxiety, our pain, our hatred and passion gently, respect-fully, not resisting it, but living with it, making peace with it, penetrating into its nature by meditation on interdependence.