Best Meditation Quotes
2551 Meditation quotes by 611 unique authors
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Crying is one of the highest devotional songs. One who knows crying, knows spiritual practice. If you can cry with a pure heart, nothing else…
— Kripalvananda
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Down on my knees / I peel back the layers of the world.
— Leza Lowitz
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Since World War II, Japan has spawned enormous numbers of new religions featuring the supernatural.... In Thailand, diseases are treated with pills manufactured from pulverized…
— Carl Sagan
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The essence of meditation is a period of time set aside to contemplate the Lord, listen to Him, and allow Him to permeate our spirits.
— Charles Stanley
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Yours will be the wings of an eagle's flight, the soaring of a lark, sunward, heavenward, Godward! But you must take time to be holy…
— F B Meyer
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Give yourself to prayer, to reading and meditation on divine truths: strive to penetrate to the bottom of them and never be content with a…
— David Brainerd
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Prayer that is born of meditation upon the Word of God is the prayer that soars upward most easily to God's listening ears.
— Reuben Archer Torrey
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Peace requires us to surrender our illusions of control.
— Jack Kornfield
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Even after the Truth has been realised, there remains that strong, obstinate impression that one is still an ego - the agent and experiencer. This…
— Adi Shankara
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The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The masters say if you create an auspicious condition in your body and your environment then meditation and realization will automatically arise.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise and fly and soar.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Just as the ocean has waves or the sun has rays, so the minds's own radiance is its thoughts and emotions.
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the…
— Unknown Author
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The best way to control cow and sheep is to give them a big grazing field.
— Shunryu Suzuki
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When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
— Alan Watts
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Simply let experience take place very freely, so that your open heart is suffused with the tenderness of true compassion.
— Tsoknyi Rinpoche
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You as a salt-being, made of salt, go to fathom the depth of the ocean, and in the process you yourself dissolve. A great maharishi…
— Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
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Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that…
— Rajneesh
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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…
— Dalai Lama
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Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We…
— Sri Chinmoy
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Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.
— Swami Muktananda
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I meditate. Meditation helps me.
— Rick Springfield
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The Way to do is to be.
— Laozi
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