Famous Quotes & Sayings

Sharon Salzberg

Effort is the unconstrained willingness to persevere through difficulty.

Sharon Salzberg

Let the breath lead the way.

Sharon Salzberg

The meditation traditions I started and have continued practicing have all emphasized inclusivity: anyone can do this who is interested.

Sharon Salzberg

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is essentially training our attention so that we can be more aware— not only of our own inner workings but also of what’s happening around us in the here & now.

Sharon Salzberg

I am totally amazed at the spread of interest in meditation. When I first came back from studying in India in 1974, I would be asked in social situations what I did. When I replied, "I teach meditation" they would frequently look at me as though to say "That is weird," and sort of sidle away.

Sharon Salzberg

You cannot fail at meditation.

Pema Chodron

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

Meditation isn't really about getting rid of thoughts, it's about changing the pattern of grasping on to things, which in our everyday experience is our thoughts.

Ramakrishna

Make your meditation a continuous state of mind. A great worship is going on all the time, so nothing should be neglected or excluded from your constant meditative awareness.

Ramana Maharshi

There are no impediments to meditation. The very thought of such obstacles is the greatest impediment.

Ramana Maharshi

See what helps you to keep away all other thoughts and adopt that method for your meditation.

Ramana Maharshi

Turn your vision inward and the whole world will be full of supreme spirit.

Joseph Campbell

Money is congealed energy and releasing it releases life possibilities ... Money experienced as life energy is indeed a meditation, and letting it flow out instead of hoarding it is a mode of participation in the life of others.

Paramahansa Yogananda

To commune daily with God in deep meditation, and to carry His love and guidance with you into all your dutiful activities, is the way that leads to permanent peace and happiness.

Paramahansa Yogananda

When you meditate the glory of the Divine shines forth. You realize then that all along there was something tremendous within you and you did not know it.

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Alas! I have nor hope nor health, Nor peace within nor calm around, Nor that content surpassing wealth The sage in meditation found.

Eknath Easwaran

As meditation deepens, compulsions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior. We see clearly that choices are possible; we can say yes or we can say no. It is profoundly liberating.

John Calvin

We can experience joy in adverse circumstances by holding God's benefits in such esteem that the recognition of them and meditation upon them shall overcome all sorrow.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

If world peace is to be established, peace in the individual must be established first. Transcendental Meditation directly brings peace in the individual life.

Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

Madame de Stael

Where no interest is takes in science, literature and liberal pursuits, mere facts and insignificant criticisms necessarily become the themes of discourse; and minds, strangers alike to activity and meditation, become so limited as to render all intercourse with them at once tasteless and oppressive.

Eckhart Tolle

You can marry the Buddha, and after a few months you will find on the human form the Buddha, too, has his limitations. There may be things that the mind reacts to and irritates you about the Buddha. "Why is he sitting over there in meditation?"

Eckhart Tolle

I do not put much emphasis on periods of meditation - if you do meditation, it's fine - but the important thing is to bring the awareness into everyday life, into every little action that you do, into the varied challenges of everyday life.

John Lennon

Speaking as somebody who's been in the drug scene, it's not something you can go on and on doing, you know. It's like drink, or anything, you've got to come to terms with it. You know, like too much food, or too much anything. You've got to get out of it. You're left with yourself all the time, whatever you do--you know, meditation, drugs or anything. But you've got to get down to your own god and your own temple in your head.

Edgar Cayce

Meditation is listening to the divine within

Hugh Jackman

Meditation has changed my life

Dani Shapiro

At some point each day (well, most days) I unroll my mat and practice for an hour. I sit in meditation for a while. This can be five minutes or twenty minutes, but the daily practice - simply showing up for it - is centering.

Daphne Zuniga

If you just sit and spend time with yourself - you were born as you, just you, and that's how you're gonna die. Why do we spend the time in between trying to not be ourselves? That's what meditation is. You just sit with yourself. Through all of it. It's like John Patrick Shanley said: "Where the terror is, you must go." Where the terror is, is where you must go.

Dan Millman

Thoughts naturally arise. The point of meditation is not to banish thoughts but to make peace with them by realizing their lack of substance.

Ram Dass

In meditation we can watch the itch instead of scratching it.