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

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.

Mary Pipher

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Peter Matthiessen

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

Pema Chodron

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

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.

Winona Ryder

Googling yourself is maybe one of the worst things you can do. I did it once, and someone had to talk me off a ledge.

Fred Brooks

The Waterfall Model is wrong and harmful; we must outgrow it.

Rabindranath Tagore

I touch God in my songas the hill touched the far-away seawith its waterfall.

Patrick Ness

There's hope at the bottom of the biggest waterfall." ~pg 426