Meditation Quotes and Sayings

Before embarking on important undertakings, sit quietly, calm your senses and thoughts, and meditate deeply. You will then be guided by the great creative power of Spirit.
– Paramahansa Yogananda

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You: Stares at a blue light emitting screen all day. Never gets sunlight. Sleeps 6 hours a night. Never meditates. Does not pre-allocate your time. Also you: “Why can’t I focus on anything for more than 20 minutes?”

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Doing nothing is really hard for us, since we’re such a productivity-driven culture and species.
– Naval Ravikant

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Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.
– Naval Ravikant

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Meditation is the sweetest fragrance we give to God.

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Meditation is not closing your eyes on your thoughts, meditation is opening your eyes on your thoughts.
– P.S. Jagadeesh Kumar

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Meditation can turn fools in to sages but unfortunately fools never meditate.
– Swami Vivekananda

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Meditation has to be a part of our every activity. Its not sufficient to meditate for one hour and be unaware for twenty-three hours. It must become the inner thread of all our actions.

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Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine.
– Buddha

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The world can come to a harmony if meditation is spread far and wide.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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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

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In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious-more conscious than ever.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Meditation is simplicity itself. One is to just let go, nothing special is supposed to happen.

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Meditation is to know oneself as one is. It is see our real face without any mask.

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Mind only thinks, meditation lives.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation.
– E.T. Brown

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Once you start drinking a little of meditativeness, a little of love, you start growing wings.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Meditation is just a strategy to take away your personality, your thoughts, your mind, your identity with the body, and leave you absolutely alone inside, just a living fire. And once you have found your living fire, you will know all the joys and all the ecstasies that human consciousness is capable of.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Wisdom happens through meditation, and bliss also happens through meditation. Both the flowers bloom on the same branch.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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As meditation flowers, you find that on one hand truth has revealed to you all its mysteries and on the other blissfulness is showering all its treasures on you.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable….
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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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.
– Sylvia Boorstein

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True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.
– Paramananda

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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

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Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.
– Owen Feltham

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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

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At the beginning of every winter people are careful to install storm windows. These extra panes of glass protect their houses against the bitter winds. We do something very similar to protect our minds through the practice of meditation.
– Eknath Easwaran

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Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
– Dan Millman

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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

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Meditation is the antidote to all the poisons of your life. It is the nourishment of your authentic nature.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Enjoy simple things with total intensity. Just a cup of tea can be a deep meditation.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Meditation is the golden key to all the mysteries of life.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.
– Marcus Aurelius

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Meditation is a flower and compassion is its fragrance.
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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Spiritual meditation is the pathway to Divinity. It is a mystic ladder which reaches from earth to heaven, from error to Truth, from pain to peace.
– James Allen

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Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent
– Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy – then you should sit for an hour

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When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.
– Stephen Richards

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Meditation allows us to directly participate in our lives instead of living life as an afterthought.
– Stephen Levine

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Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
– St Francis De Sales

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The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.
– Sogyal Rinpoche

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Sitting like a mountain let your mind rise, fly and soar.
– Sogyal Rinpoche

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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

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Meditation is to the mind what exercise is to the body – it warms and invigorates.
– John Thornton

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The mind in itself can make a heaven of hell or a hell of heaven.
– John Milton

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The spirit of meditation is the combating against the weight of one’s feelings.
– Hakuin Ekaku

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Be the master OF mind rather than mastered BY mind.
– Japanese Proverb

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Meditation is the secret of all growth in spiritual life and knowledge.
– James Allen

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Meditation is the signpost directing the steps to the main highway of realization.
– Guy Bogart

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