“Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
“Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” – James Allen
“The best meditation is effortless. The best meditation is a gentle awareness.” – Maxime Lagacé
“Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” – Voltaire
“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
“Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.” – Aristotle
“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.” – Sharon Salzberg
“Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.” – Deepak Chopra
“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” – Voltaire
“Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.” – Ramana Maharshi
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. – Stephen Levine
Generally we waste our lives, distracted from our true selves, in endless activity. Meditation is the way to bring us back to ourselves, where we can really experience and taste our full being. – Sogyal Rinpoche
One hour’s meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer. – Muhammad
“Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.” – Toni Collette
“Meditation isn’t necessarily this magical experience where we don’t ever have thoughts” – Gretchen Bleiler
“Meditation is meeting eternity in the present moment. It is resolving every problem as it comes. It is resolving every tension as it creeps in. It is facing the challenges of life in a non-fearful way.” – Vimala Thakar
“Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.” – Benjamin Franklin
“Mediation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity” – Baba Ram Dass
“Be here now. Be someplace later. Is that so complicated?” – David M. Bader
There are many different ways to practice meditation; it’s good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you. – Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. – Sylvia Boorstein
Meditation is sitting quietly while paying attention to your experience, allowing everything to be just as it is. – Cassandra Vieten
Meditation is a skillful letting go: gently but with resolution. – Ajahn Sumedho
li>In sitting meditation we practice dropping whatever story we are telling ourselves. – Pema Chödrön
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honour the reward of action. – Francis Quarles
Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you’ll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life. – Brendon Burchard
You have to make your life a good place for the meditation to seep through. – Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Meditation will bring you more and more intelligence, infinite intelligence, a radiant intelligence. Meditation will make you more alive and sensitive; your life will become richer. – Osho
Meditation is one of the ways in which the spiritual man keeps himself awake. -Thomas Merton
Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work. – Thich Nhat Hanh
“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” – C.S. Lewis
“Mediation is not spacing out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.” – Kathleen McDonald
“Meditation is choosing not to engage in the drama of the mind but elevating the mind to its highest potential.” – Amit Ray
. “Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.” – Swami Muktananda
“Meditation is not evasion, it is a serene encounter with reality” – Thich Nhat Hanh
“You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer” – Eckhart Tolle
“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
“Mediation means dissolving the invisible walls that unaware has built” – Sadhguru
“Meditate. Let the light of the heart engulf you.” – Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
“Mediation applies the brakes to the mind” – Rama Maharshi
“The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear” – Rumi
“To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and things go on their own” – Jack Kornfield
“Be free like a balloon is. Let go of all the weights (negativity) to fly to the highest of skies” – Aman Khurana
“To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. – Swami Sivananda
Meditate, Visualize, and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you. – Amit Ray
Through meditation, the Higher Self is experienced. – Bhagavad Gita
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a candle in a windless place. – Bhagavad Gita
You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you’re too busy; then you should sit one hour. – Old Zen Saying
“Meditation is medicine to quiet the chaotic mind, and it allows us to listen to the wisdom of our souls.” – Dr. Romie
“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” – Marcus Aurelius
“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.” – James Allen“
“Meditation is hanging out with your soul.” – Rachel Ritlop
“The more regularly and the more deeply you mediate, the sooner you will find yourself acting always from a center of inner peace.” – J. Donald Walters
“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; it is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein
. “Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing” – Russell Simmons
“Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.” – Tim Ferriss
“I meditate so that my mind cannot complicate my life” – Sri Chinmoy
“With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips.” – Tara Stiles
“Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.” – Ajahn Brahm
“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.” – Dan Harris
“The things that trouble our spirits are within us already. In meditation, we must face them, accept them, and set them aside one by one.” – Cristopher L Bennett
“Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.” – Bryant McGill
“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.” – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
“Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.” – Arianna Huffington
“Learn to be calm and you will always be happy” – Paramahansa Yogananda
“It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
“The thing about meditation is: You become more and more you.” – David Lynch
“The act of meditation is being spacious.” – Sogyal Rinpoche
“Meditation is allowing what is” – Victor Davich
“Remember the blue sky. It may at times be obscured by clouds, but it is always there.” – Andy Puddicombe
“Mediation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body” – Deepak Chopra
“When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a candle in a windless place” – Bhagavad Gita
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. – Swami Sivananda
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self. – Wayne Dyer
A walk in nature is a perfect backdrop to combine exercise, prayer, and meditation while enhancing the benefit of these activities. – Chuck Norris
“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better, it’s about befriending who we are.” – Ani Pema Chodron
“The best mediation is effortless. The best meditation is a gentle awareness” – Anonymous
“If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.” – Ajahn Amaro
“The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it” – Dalai Lama
“Meditation is bringing the mind home.” – Sogyal Rinpoche
“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” – Alan Watts
Someone may be just cleaning the toilet or sweeping the floor and yet the mind is suffused with love, compassion and goodwill to provide a clean and healthy environment in which to meditate. Such volition makes that service so wonderful! What is important is the quality of the volition of the one who is giving service.
March 3, 1987
The only motive for serving Dhamma must be one of compassion, a wish that more and more may benefit and gain happiness from Dhamma-bahujana-hataya, bahujana-sukhaya, lokanukanpaya. Whether you are a Dhamma teacher, assistant teacher, a trustee or a Dhamma server makes no difference at all.
March 1990
We should not think that we become a Dhamma person merely by sitting in meditation for one hour and surveying the body from head to feet and feet to head. See, is there any improvement in the mind? Or am I just performing some ritual? Is the aversion in the mind diminishing or not? Is the jealousy in my mind getting dissipated or not? Is the feeling of superiority in my mind getting eroded or not? Is this manifesting in my life or not? One should reflect again and again, time and again.
The Buddha said that the eyes of those who work in the field of Dhamma should sparkle with love.
Rare is such a person who does good to others only for the sake of service, who does not have any desire to get something in return
The feeling of rivalry should not arise even a little bit. “Why was this work allotted to him and not to me? I am better suited to do that particular work. I have greater ability to accomplish this.” Such thinking is very dangerous. Whatever work is allotted to anybody, he should engage himself into that completely. Others should feel happy to see him doing service. All of us have to do our jobs, not generating rivalry or entering into competition with each other. We should not crave for authority. In the field of service there is nothing like authority. There is service only. When selfless service is done the benefits start flowing to people, and respect and honor follow as a corollary. The more one runs after honor or authority, the more one will stand deprived of the capacity to serve.
If you have to look at faults, then look at yourself. If you have to look at virtues, then look to others. If you do this you will keep progressing
June,1999
To a mind that is still the whole universe surrenders.
— Lao-Tzu, 6th cent. BC, Chinese philosopher
The only Zen you find on tops of mountains is the Zen you bring there.
— Robert M. Pirsig, 1928-2017, American writer
Be clearly aware of the stars and infinity on high. Then life seems almost enchanted after all.
— Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890, Dutch painter
It is necessary for the perfection of human society that there should be men who devote their lives to contemplation.
— Saint Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274, Italian Dominican friar & philosopher
Listen to the sound of waves within you.
— Rumi, 1207-1273, Persian mystic & poet
My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.
— Aldοus Huxley, 1894-1963, English writer
Transcendence constitutes selfhood.
— Martin Heidegger, 1889-1976, German philosopher
You must have a place to which you can go in your heart, your mind, or your house, almost every day, where you do not owe anyone and where no one owes you – a place that simply allows for the blossoming of something new and promising.
— Joseph Campbell, 1904-1987, American academic
Yoga is a generic name for any discipline by which one attempts to pass out of the limits of one’s ordinary mental consciousness into a greater spiritual consciousness.
— Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher
The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being.
— Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher
Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
— Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher
When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.
— Sri Aurobindo, 1872-1950, Indian nationalist, yogi & philosopher
During deep meditation it is possible to dispel time, to see simultaneously all the past, present, and future, and then everything is good, everything is perfect, everything is Brahman.
— Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946
Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself.
— Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962, German writer, Nobel 1946
Serenity is when you get above all this, when it doesn’t matter what they think, say or want, but when you do as you are, and see God and Devil as one.
— Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer
At Epidaurus, in the stillness, in the great peace that came over me, I heard the heart of the world beat. I know what the cure is: it is to give up, to relinquish, to surrender, so that our little hearts may beat in unison with the great heart of the world.
— Henry Miller, 1891-1980, American writer
Through prayer we speak to God. In meditation, God speaks to us.
— Edgar Cayce, 1877-1945, American mystic & prophet
To see a World in a Grain of Sand
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower.
Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.
— William Blake, 1757-1827, English poet & painter
It is the mark of a divine mind to be always contemplating something noble.
Θείου νου το αεί τι διαλογίζεσθαι καλόν.
— Democritus, 470-370 BC, Ancient Greek philosopher
Look within. Within is the fountain of the good, and it will ever bubble up, if you wilt ever dig.
Ένδον σκάπτε, ένδον η πηγή του αγαθού και αεί αναβλύειν δυναμένη, εάν αεί σκάπτεις.
— Marcus Aurelius, 121-180 AD, Roman Emperor ‐ Meditations VII, 59
Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. – Jiddhu Krishnamurti
Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought. – Stephen Levine
In meditation, you are calm and receptive. You are like an open door providing a kind of cross ventilation so that the air of divinity can move through you. – Gurudev Shree Chitrabhanu
Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around. – Dan Millman
Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we’ve been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel. – John Welwood
Meditation is not something that should be done in a particular position at a particular time. It is an awareness and an attitude that must persist throughout the day. – Annamalai Swami
True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. – Paramananda
No meditation better clears the mind than to listen to the shape of the silence that surrounds us. It focuses us on the thin line between what is there and what is not there. It opens our heart to the unseen, and reminds us that the world is larger than the events that fill our days. – Kent Nerburn
Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation. – Yogaswami
The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. – Peter Matthiessen
Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day. – Deepak Chopra
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it. – James Allen
The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence. – Swami Muktananda
There is no necessity for a technique or formula for meditation. Inner feeling, or inner knowing, is the silent voice of inspiration. – Walter Russell
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation. – Jetsun Milarepa
The act of meditation is being spacious. – Sogyal Rinpoche
The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking—it is a combat against the weight of one’s feelings. – Hakuin Ekaku
Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether. – Surya Singer
Meditation applies the brakes to the mind. – Ramana Maharshi
What’s encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we’re closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance. – Pema Chodron
Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction. Transformation of life is the culmination of divine satisfaction. – Sri Chinmoy
Meditation is listening to the Divine within. – Edgar Cayce
Life is a mystery – mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery. – Amit Ray
Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel. – Bahya ibn Paquda
When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a candle in a windless place. – Bhagavad Gita
The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind. – Caroline Myss
The things that trouble our spirits are within us already. In meditation, we must face them, accept them, and set them aside one by one. – Cristopher L. Bennett
Meditation is to dive all the way within, beyond thought, to the source of thought and pure consciousness. It enlarges the container, every time you transcend. When you come out, you come out refreshed, filled with energy and enthusiasm for life. – David Lynch
Meditation is to the mind what exercise is to the body – it warms and invigorates. – John Thornton
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt. – St Francis De Sales
Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love. – Sarah McLean
Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. – Thich Nhat Hanh
Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass. – Owen Feltham
Meditation is not you going through thoughts – it’s letting thoughts go through you. – Naval Ravikant
Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. – Jon Kabat-Zinn
Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are. – Matthieu Ricard
Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being. – Chögyam Trungpa
In meditation, you are supposed to closely observe your mind and body, witness the ceaseless arising and passing of all your feelings, and realise how pointless it is to pursue them. When the pursuit stops, the mind becomes very relaxed, clear and satisfied. – Yuval Noah Harari
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. – Jeremy Taylor
Your mind is a wild horse. Logic, the saddle. Meditation, the reins. – System Of Systems
Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options. – Sharon Salzberg
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books. – William Cowper
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. – Eknath Easwaran
Meditation is the womb of our actions; action the midwife of our meditations. – Arthur Warwick
- Meditation is not the menu; it’s the meal. – Victor Davich
Meditation practice is like piano scales, basketball drills, ballroom dance class. Practice requires discipline; it can be tedious; it is necessary. After you have practiced enough, you become more skilled at the art form itself. You do not practice to become a great scale player or drill champion. You practice to become a musician or athlete. Likewise, one does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living. – Elizabeth Lesser
An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous. – Jane Austen
Mindfulness meditation doesn’t change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart’s capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice. – Sylvia Boorstein
Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts. – Mary Bray Pipher
On a whitely cloudy day I get sad, almost afraid,
And I begin to meditate about problems I make up.
– Alberto Caeiro
We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation. – Samael Aun Weor
Meditation is a death, a death of the ego. A meditator has to pass through a death. Meditation is the art of learning to die consciously. The spiritual teacher gives you meditation to die and to be reborn. – Swami Dhyan Giten
Like dance moves the body,
Meditation moves the mind
– Harshada Pathare
Meditation directly impacts our nervous system by reducing the body’s production of stress-related chemicals such as cortisol. It’s a great way to recharge our personal battery. – Laurie Buchanan
When meditating, fall into meditation as you would fall into love, listen oh so carefully for the sounds most distant, and allow your breathe to become the ocean. – Leland Lewis
Meditation has enabled me to transform from the soulless entity living on automatic to the being that could walk into the office with a big smile on my face for no good reason. – Joel Annesley
Meditation is our number one tool in the quest for greater mindfulness. – Amy Leigh Mercree
Simply become aware of your thoughts and actions. Become attentive to yourself. Meditation is not something that is only done in a particular posture or situation. It is an attitude towards life. – Anupama Garg
No matter what the tree, they all grow from one seed, which takes root and branches out. Meditation is like the lotus tree. Rich with many, many layers, leaves and petals. It blossoms to be a vibrant flower, but at its core, it is the same, basic principle, ~ the seed you plant. – Andrew Pacholyk
Meditation is a social and political act. Listening and not-doing are actions far more powerful than most of us have yet begun to realize. – Joan Tollifson
Meditation disciplines the mind, sharpens concentration and improves memory. It also energises body and mind. – Dada J. P. Vaswani
Meditation is the signpost directing the steps to the main highway of realization. – Guy Bogart
Meditation is a narrowing of focus that expands the soul. – Patricia Robin Woodruff
Meditation trains our inner world. It is the art of creating a space between your breath and thoughts, a space that allows you to choose your own response. That allows us to overcome stimuli and reactions, so we can choose who we want to be, moment to moment. – Natasha Potter
Through clear instruction and regular practice, meditation will help you experience a deeper connection to your senses, your body, your emotions, and the boundless frontier of your thinking mind. – Benjamin W. Decker
You have slept millions and millions of years.
Why not wake up this morning? – Kabir
Thinking is talking to yourself. Imagination is talking to the universe. Meditation is harmonizing your inner self with the universe. – Debasish Mridha
Meditation is not what your mind does: whether it is silent or not. Meditation is what you do with your mind. – Satish Tripathi
Still your mind and become a witness to your thoughts through meditation. The more you do this, you open gaps of “no mind” which puts you in a very open, present state of consciousness whereby YOU become more awakened, more aware & more powerful! – Sanjo Jendayi
Meditation has countless benefits – from better health to increased focus to a deeper sense of calm – but the biggie is the ability to respond instead of react to your impulses and urges. In meditation, instead of succumbing to deeply rooted habits of the mind like desire & aversion, you simply watch what comes up in your head non-judgementally. – Dan Harris
All of life is a meditation, most of it unintentional. – Joseph Campbell
Meditation is to leave the noise and to meet with the silence. – Mehmet Murat ildan
Meditation nourishes the mind. – Lailah Gifty Akita
Sometimes it was during the breaks that the real meditation happened – moments when it was obvious that wisdom is not something you have, but a wave-length you tune in to. – Matt Padwick
Meditation is about mindfulness and learning to strip away the illusion, revealing your authentic self and connectedness to everything and everyone. – Nanette Mathews
Seek the temple within, the silent place you can go in the midst of it all. – Nikki Rowe
A regular meditation practice is one of the highest forms of self-love. – Renae A. Sauter
If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way. – Swami Rama
The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. – Kelsang Gyatso
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. – Voltaire
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation. – Henepola Gunaratana
Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self. – Wayne Dyer
Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness. – Tara Stiles
Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh. – Hugh Jackman
Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action. – Francis Quarles
Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life. – Roseanne Barr
Meditation isn’t snake oil. For some people, meditation might be the most efficient way to reduce stress and cultivate mindfulness. But it isn’t a panacea. If you don’t meditate, there’s no need to stress out about it. – Adam Grant
Meditation is really letting go of all the thought processes or ‘mind traffic’ that gets in the way of just whatever is between you and space and consciousness. – Trudie Styler
I mean the whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected in some way. – Gillian Anderson
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality. – Richard Gere
Meditation isn’t necessarily this magical experience where we don’t ever have thoughts. – Gretchen Bleiler
Meditation helps people balance and calibrate their left-right brain. – Goldie Hawn
Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you’ll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life. – Brendon Burchard
Before you find a way to channel your emotional energy, you must take time to be still and actually feel. Meditation is a simple tool for becoming present. – Mandy Ingber
We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation. – Raul Julia
Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it’s supposed to be. – Jeff Kober
Meditation is about getting to a place where you’re approaching things in a more calm, centering place rather than allowing yourself to get caught up in it. – Tony Cardenas
Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. – Buddha
The practice of meditation can reveal to you more of your mental capacity. – Betty Buckley
Meditation is key. It’s a crazy world we live in. Everything is happening so fast in our world, so to take a moment and clear the mind and just be totally present is so healing. I want to meditate more. – Jamie Anderson
Not that I’m any good at it, but the beauty of meditation is that it liberates us from our own thoughts. – Faith Salie
I just think meditation is so important because it gives you a chance to see what’s going on in your brain. – Jim James
When you just sit in silence the wind blows through you, the sun shines in you, and you realize you are not your body; you are everything. – Anita Krizzan
In today’s rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just being. – Eckhart Tolle
Place your hands into soil to feel grounded. Wade into water to feel emotionally healed. Fill your lungs with fresh air to feel mentally clear. Raise your face to the heat of the sun and connect with that fire to feel your own immense power. – Victoria Erickson
There are different things one can do to establish and hasten the peace process. Meditation is one way. – Mike Love
This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. – Prem Rawat
Whatever forms of meditation you practice, the most important point is to apply mindfulness continuously, and make a sustained effort. It is unrealistic to expect results from meditation within a short period of time. What is required is continuous sustained effort. – Dalai Lama
In meditation, go deep in the heart. – Lao Tzu
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God. – Diana Robinson
There is only one meditation – the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts. – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Meditation: Because some answers can only be found on the Inner net. – Shira Tamir
Meditate daily, and soon your inner strength and mind power will grow. – Remez Sasson
Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. – Marcus Aurelius
Be still and know. – Aristotle
Meditation is a rich and powerful method of study for anyone who knows how to examine his mind. – Michel de Montaigne
Meditation increases your vitality and strengthens your intelligence… your mental clarity and health improve. You acquire the patience and fortitude to face any problem in life. So, meditate! Only through meditation will you find the treasure you are seeking. – Mata Amritanandamayi
When your thoughts go wandering,
just sit there and let them go,
but don’t go with them.
Keep sitting.
– B. D. Schiers
Meditation is sitting quietly
while paying attention to your experience,
allowing everything to be just as it is.
– Cassandra Vieten
Meditation is a skillful letting go: gently but with resolution. – Ajahn Sumedho
The way out of suffering is meditation itself. – Ajahn Chah
You have to make your life a good place for the meditation to seep through. – Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves. – Kathleen McDonald
Meditation is a lifelong gift. It’s something you can call on at any time. – Paul McCartney
Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit – the pleasure of simply being. – Paul Wilson
A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Schedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment. – Roy Eugene Davis
Meditation and water are wedded for ever. – Herman Melville
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. – Benjamin Franklin
After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be! – Wes Nisker
Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging. – Yeshe Dorje
Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity. – Geneen Roth
Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing. – Russell Simmons
Meditation is cultivating the potential to transcend your limited self, limited beliefs and limited existence. It is stepping into the exciting territory of limitlessness. – Banani Ray
Render unto meditation the things that are meditation’s, and unto medication the things that are medication’s. – Barry Graham
Meditation is a flower, and compassion is its fragrance. – Osho
Meditation becomes easier if you drop all your ambitions and desires. – Girdhar Joshi
Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer—anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine. – Kat Lahr
Through the experience of meditation itself, the meditator becomes conscious that the practice of meditation is an end in itself rather than a means towards an end. – David Fontana
Meditate five minutes each morning and see it wake up your entire life. – Waylon H. Lewis
Meditation takes you out of your mind and possibly into the future, negative thoughts are quicksands that keeps you glued to your past. – Michael Bassey Johnson
Harmony can be achieved within through meditation, which increases overall well-being and function. – Jay Woodman
Prayer is asking; Meditation is listening. – Brownell Landrum
Meditation turns from its purgatory role to recognize in self-knowledge and in the mind’s images of the external world the general essences in which all things have their being. – R.W. Southern