Meditation Cushion Quotes

#1. In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

Jack Kornfield

#2. In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

Jack Kornfield

#3. When we take the one seat on our meditation cushion we become our own monastery. We create the compassionate space that allows for the arising of all things: sorrows, loneliness, shame, desire, regret, frustration, happiness.

Jack Kornfield

#4. Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.

Jay Michaelson

#5. There are people whom we've never met in person yet feel closer to than those we brush up against in real life.

Richard Paul Evans

#6. A good listener: a physical presence that is warm, alert, intelligent - more important than any words.

Susan Sontag

#7. Why make this call and not just say what you wanted?
His eyes. His blue eyes. His blue imperfect eyes.

Joan Didion

#8. Character depends on characters. Few people are character. Other's should try to opt one but they don't, they lose.

Vikram Roy

#9. Anyone can kill a planet from orbit," Holden replied. "You don't even need bombs. Just push anvils out the airlock. That thing out there could kill ... Shit. Anything.

James S.A. Corey

#10. The last thing I needed was for a horde of Justin Bieber fans to take over my Twitter feed with death threats.

R.S. Grey

#11. Put some make-up on me and I look not unlike a china doll. Put me in a puffy pink dress and I look delicate, dainty, petite. Dammit.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#12. CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.

Carlos Slim

#13. To discover your personal promise land is to seek God earnestly

Sunday Adelaja