Meditation Quotes

Her beauty is untouchable.

~ Erin Fall Haskell

So I was communicating directly with God? Absolutely. Expressed that way, it sounds grandiose. But when it was happening, it didn't feel that way. Instead, I felt like I was doing what every soul is able to do when they leave their bodies, and what we can all do right now through various methods of prayer or deep meditation. Communicating with God is the most extraordinary experience imaginable, yet at the same time it's the most natural one of all, because God is present in us at all times. Omniscient, omnipotent, personal--and loving us without conditions. We are connected as One through our divine link with God.

~ Eben Alexander

Know this Mr. Davis. I am not crazy. I am not sane. I am not alive. I am not dead. I am not even the human being who you call Dr. Vigo Andersen. I was never born and I will never die. I am an eternal being. I am that I am. This, what you call reality, is just a collective dream. I was about to wake up from it permanently when I was yanked back into this temporal space. I did not try to kill myself. I tried to wake up.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Freedom of will is our birthright.

~ Jean Moreau

When the patient began speaking, Robert continued, he sounded unlike any person I have ever met before. Sure, his actions signaled that he was crazy, but his presence… Jessica, his presence was like what I imagine it would be to be close to a holy person or a spiritual master. I mean, that is really the only conclusion I can come to.And the holy guy tried to kill himself? Come on Robert. That just sounds ridiculous.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

You are wrong about that, you know, Dr. Andersen replied calmly. This, right here—us talking, sitting in this overlit room, a bunch of shrinks watching us through the tinted windows—this is the dream. The peace you felt before, that is reality. It is the I. The only part of existence that does not change, that cannot change, that will not change. You may not be ready to understand this quite yet, but if you continue meditating, you will.

~ Gudjon Bergmann

Creation is always an act of affirmation, a lust for life or activity, a restlessness accompanied by art. That art is what pleases and invigorates and mystifies me.

~ Jean Moreau

There is no excuse good enough to ever be out of alignment with love. You’re going to get hurt, and you will feel pain. Yet your purpose is to keep loving, anyway. Keep moving forward with an open heart. Love is a Divine gift given to humanity. Wasting it is no longer an option. Love is what brings light to a dark place. Love is what transforms a dying world into a thriving planet.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

A true religious person should not think that “my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false.” Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss. Likewise, no person should think “my perception of the reality is the only absolute reality, and all others’ are false”, because each human brain has its own unique way of perceiving the reality.

~ Abhijit Naskar

There is a sentiment common among most of us when it comes to love—letting go can feel scary.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Life here on Earth is promised suffering and one needs to find ways to live through it. Many people turn to meditation and prayer—anything that can connect us deeper into ourselves and with the divine.

~ Kat Lahr

Master those books you have. Read them thoroughly. Bathe in them until they saturate you. Read and reread them…digest them. Let them go into your very self. Peruse a good book several times and make notes and analyses of it. A student will find that his mental constitution is more affected by one book thoroughly mastered than by twenty books he has merely skimmed. Little learning and much pride comes from hasty reading. Some men are disabled from thinking by their putting meditation away for the sake of much reading. In reading let your motto be ‘much not many.

~ Charles Haddon Spurgeon

We need something that encourages us to work, we need an intimate aid. This is only possible through meditation.

~ Samael Aun Weor

New karma is being made all the time. When one acts with a positive motivation, goodness is furthered. When one acts out of negative motivation, negativity is furthered. We can recondition ourselves to act with wisdom. The important thing to understand here is that you are not a victim. You are your own master. 'As you sow, so shall you reap.

~ Lama Surya Das

There are an incalculable—even infinite—number of situations in which we can practice forgiveness. Expecting it to be a singular action—motivated by the sheer imperative to move on and forget—can be more damaging than the original feelings of anger. Accepting forgiveness as pluralistic and as an ongoing, individualized process opens us up to realize the role that our own needs play in conflict resolution.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Your mind is a book, God is the pen.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

No man's advice can change you unless you speak to yourself. Bible school or seminars can't change you, going to church can't change you except you decide to change.Psalm 139:23 - 24

~ Patience Johnson

Dance less in motion and more in spirit, awaken the dreamer within.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Music does not need language of words for it has movements of dance to do its translation.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

When the melody plays, footsteps move, heart sings and spirit begin to dance.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Soar like an eagle beyond skies of heavens reach, as wings of dreams dance with winds of reality.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

World seems like a void of silence every time footsteps are deprived of dancing shoes.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Dance resides within us all. Some find it when joy conquers sorrow, others express it through celebration of movements; and then there are those... whose existence is dance

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

Hearts shall dance once again, when canvas of ice is painted with the brush of skates.

~ Shah Asad Rizvi

We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love.

~ Paul O'brien

Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Laughing at your pettiness probably works better than scolding yourself for it.

~ Sharon Salzberg

To celebrate someone else’s life, we need to find a way to look at it straight on, not from above with judgment or from below with envy.

~ Sharon Salzberg

No connection is always easy or free of strife, no matter how many minutes a day we meditate. It’s how we relate to conflict, as well as to our differing needs and expectations, that makes our relationships sustainable.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Love is defined by difficult acts of human compassion & generosity.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Love simply, perpetually exists and that it’s a matter of psychic housekeeping to make room for it.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Setting the intention to practice kindness toward one’s partner or family members or friends does not preclude getting angry or upset.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Moments before sleep are when she feels most alive, leaping across fragments of the day, bringing each moment into the bed with her like a child with schoolbooks and pencils. The day seems to have no order until these times, which are like a ledger for her, her body full of stories and situations.

~ Michael Ondaatje

A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

I myself recently dreamed that a UFO came speeding towards me which turned out to be the lens of a magic lantern whose projected image was myself; this suggested to me that I was the figure, himself deep in meditation, who is produced by a meditating yogi.

~ C.g. Jung

The life is not limited to the external reality but the external life, has been formed for the human’s experience. The time you feel you are done with all the experiences of the external life, you have a choice to move inward.

~ Roshan Sharma

Don't respond when the mind snaps its fingers.

~ Bert Mccoy

Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation.

~ Sharon Salzberg