Quotes by Meditation Teachers - Page 3

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.
Sharon Salzberg
Peace can be found within, no matter the external circumstances.
Allan Lokos
Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we’re hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.
Sharon Salzberg
Patience is the direct antithesis of anger.
Allan Lokos
Meditation may be done in silence & stillness, by using voice & sound, or by engaging the body in movement. All forms emphasize the training of attention.
Sharon Salzberg
From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The notion of loving oneself has gotten an undeservedly bad rap, which goes something like this: self-love is narcissistic, selfish, self-indulgent, the supreme delusion of a runaway ego looking out for “number one.” In fact, just the opposite is true.
Sharon Salzberg
Remember, everyone you meet is really trying to do the best they can. No one woke up today and intentionally decided to be mean, difficult, or unreasonable - including you.
John Bruna
The light is all around, but to find it, we need to look inside our hearts. We can go through life and search in all the wrong places. But one day we’ll look within and we’ll find the entire universe.
Dorit Brauer
Forgiveness is a personal process that doesn’t depend on us having direct contact with the people who have hurt us.
Sharon Salzberg
Without the ability to be present we are missing much of what the adventure has to offer.
Allan Lokos
Taking responsibility for oneself is by definition an act of kindness.
Sharon Salzberg
The erruption of feelings & emotions that follows a near-death exerience, or any event that causes us to stop & look deeply at the reality of our lives, is ripe with the potential for insight & clarity.
Allan Lokos
True freedom is the ability to respond consciously, in the most beneficial way, to whatever life throws at you.
John Bruna
When we practice metta, we open continuously to the truth of our actual experience, changing our relationship to life.
Sharon Salzberg
Real forgiveness in close relationships is never easy. It can’t be rushed or engineered.
Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity.
Sharon Salzberg
Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment
Sharon Salzberg
Loving others is the greatest gift we can give ourselves. Altruism that rewards one's self.
Allan Lokos
We are all in this together. Our happiness inextricably is tied to that of all beings.
Allan Lokos
We learn from conflicts only when we are willing to do so.
Sharon Salzberg
You cannot control the results, only your actions.
Allan Lokos
Forgiveness can be bittersweet. It contains the sweetness of the release of a story that has caused us pain, but also the poignant reminder that even our dearest relationships change over the course of a lifetime.
Sharon Salzberg
The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we expand outward into the world.
Sally Kempton
Vulnerability in the face of constant change is what we share, whatever our present condition.
Sharon Salzberg
Ultimately, we forgive others in order to free ourselves.
Sharon Salzberg
In more ways than any of us can name, love is wrapped up with the idea of expectation.
Sharon Salzberg
What makes awe such a powerful call to love is that it’s disruptive. It sneaks up on us. It doesn’t ask our permission to wow us; it just does. Awe can arise from a single glance, a sound, a gesture.
Sharon Salzberg
Our path, our sense of spirituality demands great earnestness, dedication, sincerity & continuity.
Sharon Salzberg
One practical way to do this is to look at other people and ask yourself if you are really seeing them of just your thought about them. Sometimes our thoughts act like dream glasses. When we have them on, we see dream children, dream husband, dream wife, dream ob, dream colleagues, dream partners, dream friends. We can live in a dream present for a dream future...But if we take off the glasses, maybe, just maybe, we might see a little more accurately what is actually here.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Hatred does not help us alleviate our pain even in the slightest.
Sharon Salzberg
The GURU is Inside.
davidji
Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value.
Sharon Salzberg
Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of loving kindness and self-compassion, we can learn to love our flawed and imperfect selves. And in those moments of vulnerability, we open our hearts to connect with each other, as well. We are not perfect, but we are enough.
Sharon Salzberg
Our actions speak for us & they speak loudly.
Allan Lokos
Living in a story of a limited self—to any degree—is not love.
Sharon Salzberg
Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly
Sally Kempton
When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person.
Sharon Salzberg
Remind yourself that your mental & emotional health are important.
Allan Lokos
Mindfulness helps us to set boundaries by revealing what makes us unhappy & what brings us peace.
Sharon Salzberg
The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness. Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
The doors that open and close in our lives are not nearly as important as the person we are when we open them.
John Bruna
Loving kindness is the practice of offering to oneself and others wishes to be happy, peaceful, healthy, strong
Sharon Salzberg
By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness.
Sharon Salzberg
We are all too often told by someone that we are too old, too young, too different, too much the same, and those comments can be devastating.
Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing—or more complicated—than it is today.
Sharon Salzberg
By grounding yourself in mindfulness early in the morning, you are reminding yourself that things are always changing, that good and bad things come and go, and that it is possible to embody a perspective of of constancy, wisdom, and inner peace as you face any conditions that present themselves.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Don't believe everything you think. Thoughts are just that - thoughts.
Allan Lokos
One doesn't have to be religious to lead a moral life or attain wisdom.
Allan Lokos
There’s no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others.
Sharon Salzberg
We must accept the reality that the causes of impatience travel a two-way street.
Allan Lokos
When we feel conflicted about a particular decision or action, our bodies often hold the answer—if we take the time to stop and tune in.
Sharon Salzberg
In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow sense of arising from the brain, but also to the whole range of consciousness, vast & unimpeded.
Sharon Salzberg
It's the new best way to start your day - Ram Lev on Facebook Live TOMORROW, Thursday, March 16th, at 7:30am EST."If I am not the body that was born and dies, and I am not the mind that always changes, then who am I? The One who is aware of the body, aware of the mind, and aware of the questions.
Leonard Perlmutter
There is no conflict between loving others deeply and living mindfully.
Sharon Salzberg
When we forgive others, we give ourselves permission to let go of our own suffering.
John Bruna
Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.
Sharon Salzberg
The journey to loving ourselves doesn’t mean we like everything.
Sharon Salzberg
The most important step in developing skillful speech is to think before speaking.
Allan Lokos