Meditation Instruction Quotes

#1. This is a standard meditation instruction that you can embody in the entirety of your life: do not act out and do not repress. See what happens if you don't do either of those things.

Pema Chodron

#2. Compassion can be put into practice if one recognizes the fact that every human being is a member of humanity and the human family regardless of differences in religion, culture, color and creed. Deep down there is no difference.

Dalai Lama

#3. But in this meditation technique, we are with the out-breath; there's no particular instruction about what to do until the next out-breath.

Pema Chodron

#4. I'm a rat. I used to believe in the Golden Rule but now question it. It's too easy to be snarky at those who are snarky toward me. I like how it feels - the yellow cheese giving way between pointed teeth. My tail begins to twitch.

Chila Woychik

#5. By most accounts, Aristide is the most popular figure in Haiti.

Noam Chomsky

#6. If we are not our brother's keeper, at least let us not be his executioner.

Marlon Brando

#7. I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.

Alexis Korner

#8. Language was not given to man: he seized it.

Louis Aragon

#9. The freedom to criticize judges and other public officials is necessary to a vibrant democracy.

Sandra Day O'Connor

#10. So I'm in that half-hour business where the most money is, so that eventually I feel like the people that put on the Dupont show, like maybe my artistic effort is going to be a little different.

Jackie Cooper

#11. Life is but a breath,
man is only dust;
today he is here,
tomorrow he is no more.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#12. I've been blessed. God's looked out for me, so, I'm happy.

Sean Taylor

#13. Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction on following the breath, no one can teach you about the experience. It comes through practice and patience.

Debra Moffitt

#14. If love were a product, the queue at the faulty goods desk would stretch right round the universe and back. It doesn't work properly. The seams come apart and it's full of powdered glass.

Charlie Brooker

#15. Every far-sighted capitalist today must call on his fellows: capitalists of all countries, unite !

Anonymous