Meditation Quotes

You cannot fail at meditation.

— Sharon Salzberg

Meditation results in marvels.

— Tirumalai Krishnamacharya

“of our prayer and meditation.”

— Bill P

Sleep is the best meditation.

— Anonymous

Don't preach about meditation.

— Frederick Lenz

“Meditation makes us happier!”

— Mia Randall

Meditation helps everything.

— Russell Simmons

What you think you become.

— Gautama Buddha

Meditation helps me to calm down.

— Lady Gaga

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego.

— Rajneesh

Zen is the unsymbolization of the world.

— Reginald Horace Blyth

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

— Peter McWilliams

“You should try to avoid using the words "should" and "try".”

— Swami Pranayomama

“The mind is a useful tool but not a very good friend.”

— Stephen Levine

“Is there any success, without the soundness of mind?”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

To practice Dhamma means to observe and examine oneself.

— Ajahn Chah

In the martial arts, introspection begets wisdom. Always see contemplation on your actions as an opportunity to improve.

— Mas Oyama

“tending to household details is a centering activity equivalent to meditation,”

— Sarah Ban Breathnach

“If you meditate on the Holy Scriptures, you mind shall me on the Jesus Christ, the Saviour,”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

Whatever you see, hear or experience in the world is ephemeral. Get in touch with the eternal substratum of everything.

— Mata Amritanandamayi

Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.

— Simone Weil

Meditation is the sharp tool to dig out the great treasure hidden within everybody's inner personality.

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Silence heals; silence soothes; silence comforts; silence purifies; silence revitalizes us.

— Dada JP Vaswani

To become powerful, to develop will, meditate on the naval center.

— Frederick Lenz

If you play basketball, you get into the zone. You can't miss. That's the expansive mindset we're all seeking. But that only…

— Russell Simmons

“Listen, go within. The heart knows the way. Take heed, look around, everywhere is love. Open to change and reveal your heart…

— Ulonda Faye

Pleased be you, my Lord, with all your creatures, especially Sir Brother Sun, who is the day and through whom you give…

— Francis of Assisi

Leaving behind the false, return to the true: make no discriminations between self and others. In contemplation, one's mind should be stable…

— Bodhidharma

Prayer is a form of meditation, isn't it? It's laws of attraction: whatever you put out into the universe is what it…

— Anthony Joshua

You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself…

— Ram Dass

The contemplation of this world beckoned as a liberation (...)The road to this paradise was not as comfortable and alluring as the…

— Albert Einstein

Mindfulness, also called wise attention, helps us see what we’re adding to our experiences, not only during meditation sessions but also elsewhere.

— Sharon Salzberg

“In brief, it appears that most Centrists clearly distinguish between accepting a nonreifying notion of mere mind as a step in the…

— Karl Brunnholzl

Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural… In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills…

— Carl Sagan

“Saint Paul wrote that your body is the temple, which is to say, your body holds the wisdom that you seek. While…

— Richard L. Haight

“One evening Milarepa returned to his cave after gathering firewood, only to find it filled with demons. They were cooking his food,…

— Pema Chödrön

The Tantric way is open to all the richness of human nature, which it accepts without a single restriction. It is probably…

— Daniel Odier

Here is, in truth, the whole secret of Yoga, the science of the soul. The active turnings, the strident vibrations, of selfishness,…

— Patanjali

“Yang Shan (Kyo-zan) asked Wei Shan (I-san): 'What shall we do when hundreds, thousands, and millions of things beset us all at…

— Kaiten Nukariya

When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or ascends in…

— Rajneesh