Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Edgar Cayce

Meditation is listening to the divine within

Nhat Hanh

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

Nhat Hanh

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Eva Mendes

It's tapping into something so deep that when I reap the rewards, I do not even know I'm reaping them. It's a more overall kinda thing.

Ringo Starr

At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.

Pema Chodron

Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

Paul McCartney

It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.

Walter Bagehot

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Petrarch

From thought to thought, from mountain peak to mountain. Love leads me on; for I can never still My trouble on the world's well beaten ways.

Mike Zafirovski

We have a very tall mountain to climb.

Shannon Burns

We don't have mountains and aquariums and polished wood flooring,

Lindsay Lewis

I was relieved. We're all like 5-4, 5-5, so they're like mountains to us.

David Mitchell

...A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty...

Bryn Terfel

For the mountains shall depart

Alain Robert

All these buildings are like mountains I would like to climb, but I am forbidden.

Alan Alda

In 2003, I almost died of an intestinal blockage when I was on a mountain in Chile, filming a segment for 'Scientific American Frontiers.'

Al McGuire

There's no one who's dropped on top of the mountain. You've got to work your way to the top.