Natural Meditation Quotes

“Don’t use your mind to try and figure things out. What is it that watches your mind? Be there—now.”
― Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice

“A friend of mine who’s dieting has a Post-it on her refrigerator door on which she’s written, “Nothing tastes as good as thin feels.” You may discover that none of your drivel tastes as good as vacancy feels.”
― Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice

“If there’s a solution to the problem, what’s the point of worrying? If there’s no solution to the problem, what’s the point of worrying”
― Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice

“We Westerners grew up having our most poignant feelings invoked by the I-IV-V chord progression that runs from Bach to pop.”
― Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice

“Do not seek truth; merely cease to cherish opinions.”
― Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice

“Just to have ordinary, garden-variety human consciousness is unspeakably extraordinary. We are the luckiest of mud. No need to consider further: we’d be perfectly justified to stop right here with tears of wonder and gratitude pouring down our cheeks.”
― Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice

“Every time we have the opportunity to sit down and practice, . . . take three seconds only. Three seconds. . . . Look up and say, “Thank God.” . . . Because you’re so grateful, you’re so glad, that instead of doing something else you’re about to start practicing, which you have to take as a gift from God, because you don’t have the necessity to be breaking stones in the mine, or driving a truck from Oklahoma to Key West, or something like that. You’re sitting down with your beloved instrument—practicing!”
― Dean Sluyter, Natural Meditation: A Guide to Effortless Meditative Practice