Meditation Quotes
Tony DeLiso
Keep your best wishes, close to your heart and watch what happens
1741 Lada Ray
Contemplation + action = breakthrough
4171 Rajendra Ojha
In absent of concentration, Meditation is impossible.
4972 Amit Ray
Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.
1903 Tony DeLiso
Happiness is part of who we are. Joy is the feeling
1971 Amit Ray
It does not matter how long you are spending on the earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters,
2654 Amit Ray
Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.
1703 Amit Ray
Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you.
3686 Kurt Vonnegut
I believe that reading and writing are the most nourishing forms of meditation anyone has so far found. By reading the writings of the most interesting minds in history, we meditate with our own minds and theirs as well. This to me is a miracle.
3943 Hélène Cixous
Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.
2263 H.E. Davey
Just as writing can become calligraphy when it’s creatively, skillfully, and consciously performed, so can all other activities become art. In this case, we are reflecting upon life itself as an artistic statement - the art of living.
4340 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.
3394 Aishwarya Shiva Pareek
There are different ways to take over the World. But there is only one way to take over the Universe and that’s through meditation.
2104 Swami Dhyan Giten
When we stop judging others and ourselves, our heart begins to open.
2413 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Although we may wish for more or strive to do better than we have, in these times it is enough to keep your soul.
2366 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
Search not for happiness outside yourself, for nothing could be further from the truth.
2976 Swami Dhyan Giten
Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.
4082 Swami Dhyan Giten
When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.
1823 Bryant McGill
The keys to health and weight-loss: stress reduction, sleep, deep breathing, clean water, complete nutrition, sunshine, walking, stretching, meditation, love, community, laughter, dreams, perseverance, purpose, humility, action.
1089 Swami Dhyan Giten
The inner woman is the source of healing. The inner woman is the source of silence. The inner woman is the source of love. The inner woman is the source of belongingness with life. Embracing the inner man and woman is to discover our inner roots and wings.
2449 Swami Dhyan Giten
It is when our inner male and female sides meets within ourselves that a new spark of love, joy, and wholeness arises within ourselves.
2194 Swami Dhyan Giten
Fear and hate create separation, love and joy creates belongingness and wholeness.
1716 Swami Dhyan Giten
Intuition is a trust that if we follow our heart, if we follow our love, joy and truth, the Whole becomes enriched.
4364 Sharon Salzberg
Meditation trains the mind the way physical exercise strengthens the body.
1304 Sharon Salzberg
We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.
2319 Swami Dhyan Giten
Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.
4787 Swami Dhyan Giten
In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I" – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.
4297 Vivian Amis
To think is to have doubt....yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought"....eventually.
4674 J.F Hermann
Having books standing on a shelf in a room is like having completely different worlds at the ready, waiting to be explored.
4449 Michael Bassey Johnson
An idea is like a spark to creativity, which turns to a wild conflagration of thoughts, burning every ignorance. When the fire burns, the creative power is awake, and comes out to join the ideas in your head to bring out the hidden valuables the world never knew
1879 Thich Nhat Hanh
Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.
4072 Osho
With me, illusions are bound to be shattered. I am here to shatter all illusions. Yes, it will irritate you, it will annoy you - that's my way of functioning and working. I will sabotage you from your very roots! Unless you are totally destroyed as a mind, there is no hope for you.
3516 Amit Ray
Silence is the language of Om. We need silence to be able to reach our Self. Both internal and external silence is very important to feel the presence of that supreme Love.
4070 Amit Ray
The true miracle lies in our eagerness to allow, appreciate, and honor the uniqueness, and freedom of each sentient being to sing the song of their heart.
3509 Amit Ray
Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.
3197 Amit Ray
Yoga is not a religion. It is a science, science of well-being, science of youthfulness, science of integrating body, mind and soul.
1033 Amit Ray
You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.
4965 Patañjali
Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
2314 Amit Ray
Yoga is not just repetation of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.
4436 Amit Ray
Echo of your thoughts are more important than your actions because that has greater impact on the world.
4761 Amit Ray
AUM or Om is not related to any religion because Om was practiced before the birth of all the religions of the world.
2115 Nisargadatta Maharaj
Truth is not a reward for good behaviour, nor a prize for passing some tests. It cannot be brought about. It is the primary, the unborn, the ancient source of all that is. You are eligible because you are. You need not merit truth. It is your own....Stand still, be quiet.
1873 Miranda Linda Weisz
When many voices are speaking at once, listen to the one most quiet and gentle. That’s the one worth listening to. ~ Miranda* ~
4705 Sharon Salzberg
Mindfulness can play a big role in transforming our experience with pain & other difficulties; it allows us to recognize the authenticity of the distress & yet not be overwhelmed by it.
3190 Samael Aun Weor
We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way; this is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind, and this is achieved by means of meditation.
4907 Swami Dhyan Giten
To be able to die consciously, we need to prepare for death while we are still living.
1592 Swami Dhyan Giten
Only a meditator is able to die consciously as life is an opportunity to prepare for death. Meditation is a death, a death of the ego.
1423 Erin Fall Haskell
Channelling is your higher self streaming through in a version your limited mind can accept. There is no such thing as a separate entity, only the perception of it. You are all of it!
2429 Erin Fall Haskell
If you're searching for something out in the world to bring you happiness, wealth or love, then you are in for a tough journey. The key to success is never out there, but rather within. It is merely a side effect of awakening the divine within!
1910 Erin Fall Haskell
Deep inside of you is a 'Guru' with the wisdom of the entire Universe!
1977 Erin Fall Haskell
To the degree we give power to anything outside ourselves we become powerless
2178 J.D. Salinger
You asked me how to get out of the finite dimensions when I feel like it. I certainly don't use logic when I do it. Logic's the first thing you have to get rid of.
4058 Eckhart Tolle
I have lived with several Zen masters - all of them cats.
1831 Amit Ray
Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.
3279 Patañjali
Yoga is the cessation of the movements of the mind. Then there is abiding in the Seer's own form.
1906 Amit Ray
When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.
4310 Eric Micha'el Leventhal
The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.
1279 Amit Ray
Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.
4368 Amit Ray
Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.
4414 Allan Lokos
To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.
2293 Nandhi Tapasyogi
As we discard a limited mind and a life of limitation to step into the grandness of vastness, we realize infinity itself to be the Guru and all that we do as grace. As we traverse through consciousness that is the Guru, we become the Guru and each thought of ours is perfect in the now, as scriptures. Consciousness is the Guru, the wisdom.
2553 Rasheed Ogunlaru
You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.
1869 Amit Ray
Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.
1831 Amit Ray
Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.
4240 Stephen Richards
Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.
1019 Ambika Devi
True oneness is found in quiet meditation with nature.
4044 Rob Liano
When you have passion, you don't need coffee.
2042 Amit Ray
Perfect prayer does not consist in many words, silent remembering and pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power.
2470 Amit Ray
The easiest way to get touch with this universal power is through silent Prayer. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer. Prayer should be soundless words coming forth from the centre of your heart filled with love.
2897 Karl Rahner
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
1510 Amit Ray
Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements. Once you understand the grammar of yoga; you can write your poetry of movements.
2151 Aberjhani
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
1437 H.E. Davey
While we can learn or study techniques for almost anything we might want to accomplish, real understanding is not the mere accumulation of knowledge. Understanding cannot be realized by listening or reading about the realization of others. It must be achieved firsthand via substantive, direct perception in the moment.
3798 Allan Lokos
Accepting the reality of change gives rise to equanimity.
4475 Allan Lokos
You honor yourself by acting with dignity and composure.
2268 Allan Lokos
While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.
1547 Allan Lokos
Observing your thoughts, feelings & sensations is the grist of the practice.
4732 Amit Ray
Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.
3793 Reba Riley
Make your life a prayer. Live your mediation.
1356 Julia Gregson
when we look up, it widens our horizons. we see what a little speck we are in the universe, so insignificant, and we all take ourselves so seriously, but in the sky, there are no boundaries. No differences of caste or religion or race.
4195 Natalie Wright
No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.
4516 Natalie Wright
Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat. I breathed. I let past go. I let future go. I am. That is all.
2413 Dr. Jacinta Mpalyenkana
Grounding is taking a conscious effort to retract oneself from the world’s distractions, and then focusing on listening to isolate the voice of God within from the voice of the ego. The voice of God within is where all the answers lie.
1348 Buky Ojelabi
If you spend your time talking to God about everything, you'll be less likely to vent your feelings to everyone.
1417 Allan Lokos
Do not speak about anyone who is not physically present.
3074 Sue Monk Kidd
The words were unexpected, but so incisively true. So much of prayer is like that - an encounter with a truth that has sunk to the bottom of the heart, that wants to be found, wants to be spoken, wants to be elevated into the realm of sacredness.
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