Meditation Quotes

Zen is poetry; poetry is Zen.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

“Full minds create chaos.”

— David W. Jones

Smile, breathe and go slowly.

— Anonymous

I try to meditate.

— Laurence Fishburne

Tantric Zen is a state of mind

— Frederick Lenz

Conquer a liar with truth.

— Gautama Buddha

Movement for me is meditation.

— Conor McGregor

Meditation has changed my life

— Hugh Jackman

One conscious breathe in and out is a meditation.

— Eckhart Tolle

So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.

— Allan Lokos

Any action in which you can be total becomes meditation.

— Rajneesh

When you sit, everything sits with you.

— Shunryu Suzuki

“A memory is an echoing of what was once happening.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“What we do is dictated by what we are doing.”

— Jill Spiewak Eng

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

If you have time to be mindful, you have time to meditate.

— Ajahn Chah

In spirituality, when we say growth, we are talking about becoming smaller; not just smaller - non-existent.

— Jaggi Vasudev

In the woods I find things that are spiritual, redemptive, and worthy of contemplation.

— Steven Rinella

“A willingness to embrace and work with what is lies at the core of all meditation practice.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

And meditation is nothing but enjoying your beautiful aloneness. Celebrating yourself; that's what meditation is all about.

— Rajneesh

You could think of mindfulness as wise and affectionate attention.

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

Seek in reading and you will find in meditation; knock in prayer and it will be opened to you in contemplation.

— John of the Cross

In Buddhist practice, the outward and inward aspects of taking the one seat meet on our meditation cushion.

— Jack Kornfield

“Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment.”

— Sri Amma Bhagwan

Sring is the mantra of beauty. Traditionally it is connected with Lakshmi, the Indian goddess of beauty. Chant "Sring" slowly, elongating each…

— Frederick Lenz

As you expand your meditation practice, in concert with your faith, you will find that these divine moments come more often, until…

— James Finley

Making work for me is being in the world, but it's also being specific about being in the world. I'm interested in…

— Zoe Leonard

Zen is just a lifestyle, your everyday life. It is doing your best at your job, relationships, health, hobbies, and other daily…

— Mika

When even one virtue becomes our nature, the mind becomes clean and tranquil. Then there is no need to practice meditation; we…

— Anonymous

The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind.…

— Douglas Preston

“Breathing they say is good for you. It's yoga. In Tara's case, it's just pain. They remained silent for the rest of…

— Soroosh Shahrivar

Meditation is the activity of calling to mind, and thinking over, and dwelling on, and applying to oneself, the various things that…

— J. I. Packer

“You aren’t actually a someone, a person, who is conscious. You are the awake space of awareness itself, within which all the…

— Enza Vita

“If your golf instructor were to insist that you shave your head, sleep no more than four hours each night, renounce sex,…

— Sam Harris

“Someone inquired of a Hindu who had a great serenity and peace about him, no matter what pressures were put upon him,…

— Stephen R. Covey

The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after,…

— Bhagat Singh

Unfortunately we've seen meditation insulted in a sense with the image of ritual. You have to dress a certain way, follow a…

— Frederick Lenz

“You need to belong to yourself, and let others belong to themselves too. You need to be free and detached from things…

— Charlotte Eriksson

“Zen's object of worship cannot be named and determined as God, or Brahman, or Amitabha, or Creator, or Nature, or Reality, or…

— Kaiten Nukariya

In the morning I stand up, scratch a little bit, then I light a candle and I meditate. Every morning. I've been…

— Russell Simmons