Meditation Quotes

"There is no enlightenment outside of daily life." "To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to care for the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to care for the things happening around you." "Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future." "Sleep is the best meditation" "Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure" "People think, 'I don't have time to meditate.' That's like saying, 'I don't have time to take my medication.'" "We have to live our life as a Buddha fully. Each human being has a Buddha nature. Buddhist monks practice in order to be a fully awakened human being." "The mind is like a river. The water flows endlessly from one form to another." "Your true home is in the here and the now." "Mindfulness helps you go home to the present. And every time you go there and recognize a condition of happiness that you have, happiness comes. " "But I'll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and get very quiet, you'll come to understand that you're connected with everything." "The more you meditate on philosophy, the more you realize there is yet more to discover" "To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders to." "To sit in solitude to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence there lies the value of wilderness" "Do not hurrying your actions. Be fully present. Slow down and enjoy each step." "The most important practice is the practice of the present moment." "The real meditation practice is how we live our lives from moment to moment to moment." "Healing comes out of the practice itself, when we are able to be with ourselves." "Mindfulness is not about getting anywhere else." "Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at its core is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else."