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In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.

In sitting meditation, we train in mindfulness and unconditional friendliness: in being steadfast with our bodies, our emotions, our thoughts.
– Pema Chdrn

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  1. Sitting meditation gives us a way to move closer to our thoughts and emotions and to get in touch with our bodies. – Pema Chdrn
  2. Sitting meditation begins with good posture. – Pema Chdrn
  3. While we are sitting in meditation, we are simply exploring humanity and all of creation in the form of ourselves. – Pema Chdrn
  4. Meditation practice is not about later, when you get it all together and you’re this person you really respect. – Pema Chdrn
  5. Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation. – Pema Chdrn
  6. IN practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal-”quite the opposite. – Pema Chdrn
  7. Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. – Pema Chdrn
  8. It’s helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing. – Pema Chdrn
  9. The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go – qualities that are innate within us. – Pema Chdrn
  10. One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are. – Pema Chdrn
  11. The path of meditation and the path of our lives altogether ha to do with curiosity, inquisitiveness. – Pema Chdrn
  12. The study of modern mindfulness meditation and emotional intelligence is deeply rooted in the ancient Vipassana meditation techniques. – Amit Ray
  13. Abandon hope. – Pema Chdrn
  14. Pointing directly at your own heart, you find Buddha. – Pema Chdrn
  15. There isn’t any hell or heaven except for how we relate to our world. Hell is just resistance to life. – Pema Chdrn
  16. Words themselves are neutral. It’s the charge we add to them that matters – Pema Chdrn
  17. Many religions have meditations on death to let it penetrate our thick skulls that life doesn’t last forever. – Pema Chdrn
  18. The first noble truth says simply that it’s part of being human to feel discomfort. – Pema Chdrn
  19. there’s more to liberation than trying to avoid discomfort, more to lasting happiness than pursuing temporary pleasures, temporary relief. – Pema Chdrn
  20. Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed. – Pema Chdrn
  21. If we learn to open our hearts, anyone, including the people who drive us crazy, can be our teacher. – Pema Chdrn
  22. PATIENCE is the antidote to anger, a way to learn to love and care for whatever we meet on the path. – Pema Chdrn
  23. Our emotions stem from our thoughts, redirect your thoughts to redirect your emotions. – Sam Owen
  24. Do we use thoughts as a medium to convey our emotions, or use our emotions to convey thoughts! – Ramana Pemmaraju
  25. Mindfulness is the agent of our freedom. Through mindfulness we arrive at faith we grow in wisdom & we attain equanimity. – Sharon Salzberg
  26. Mindfulness is a quiet mind, an aware mind. Mindfulness itself is not about -˜arriving,’ but about being. – Jean Moreau
  27. Integration arises from intimacy with our emotions and our bodies, as well as with our thoughts. – Sharon Salzberg
  28. If you train a dog it will follow you but if you train yourself you will be Great. – Mike Desert
  29. If a railroad is bent, the train shall turn over; if a man’s character is bent, he shall turn over just like that train. – Mehmet Murat ildan
  30. The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before. – GK Chesterton
  31. You are sitting! Want to be there? You can’t reach there by not going there! Sitting is the enemy of your dreams! – Mehmet Murat ildan
  32. It’s not the writing part that’s hard. What’s hard is sitting down to write.What keeps us from sitting down is Resistance. – Steven Pressfield
  33. The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness. – Frank Delaney
  34. In person, Mr. Desmond mixes low-key friendliness and on-message discipline. – Jennifer Schuessler
  35. The measure of wisdom is in simplicity, humility, and in friendliness. – Debasish Mridha MD
  36. Because of the insolence of all the white race he was afraid to lose his dignity in friendliness. – Carson McCullers
  37. She was drowning-”in friendliness, in community-”and she was starting to think she didn’t want to get pulled out. – Tricia Goyer
  38. I HAVE NOTHING TO GIVE OR RECEIVE EXCEPT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE.NOTHING COMES IN AND NOTHING GOES OUT EXCEPT UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. – Catherine Carrigan
  39. Meditation is about mindfulness and learning to strip away the illusion, revealing your authentic self and connectedness to everything and everyone. – Nanette Mathews
  40. Meditation and mindfulness are tools for working with the mind, but where they have led me is to a blossoming of the heart… – Narissa Doumani

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