Meditation Quotes

Mindfulness isn't difficult, we just need to remember to do it.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Patience is both the tool for and the result of, our efforts.

~ Allan Lokos

A modern definition of equanimity: cool. This refers to one whose mind remains stable & calm in all situations.

~ Allan Lokos

Our actions speak for us & they speak loudly.

~ Allan Lokos

Praise & esteem can feel good, which is fine, but don't look to them for inner peace & lasting happiness.

~ Allan Lokos

We are all in this together. Our happiness inextricably is tied to that of all beings.

~ Allan Lokos

We can understand the inherent radiance & purity of our minds by understanding metta. Like the mind, metta is not distorted by what it encounters.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Rest as the awareness that is aware without using thought.

~ Loch Kelly

We can learn to return home to our open hearts at any moment.

~ Loch Kelly

The big realization when we go beyond the ego is simply seeing that we've always been ok.

~ Loch Kelly

There is a wager that we must all make; for the small stake of some rewarding mental training, we can attain lasting contentment and contribute to a positive outcome for our planet.

~ Neil Hayes

The sight of somebody meditating needs to become commonplace.

~ Neil Hayes

True contemplation is not a psychological trick but a theological grace. It can come to us ONLY as a gift, and not as a result of our own clever use of spiritual techniques.

~ Thomas Merton

When you come to the ultimate experience in meditation, when you come to your deepest core, you are no one. You are a vast emptiness.You can become afraid in meditation, because the deeper you go in meditation, the more you realize that you are nobody, a nothingness. It is a death of the ego. That is why people become afraid of meditation.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Our practice rather than being about killing the ego is about simply discovering our true nature.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When we are authentic, when we act out of presence and awareness, it also gives nourishment to the inner being of people around us.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Spontaneity in the therapeutic work arises when the therapist can allow creative and authentic impulses to arise from moment to moment from the inner being, from the meditative quality within, from the inner emptiness, from the capacity to surrender to life. Then the therapist becomes less of a technician and more of an artist in the therapeutic work. It is then when the therapist and client meets in awareness without any barrier between.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

In situations where I feel unclear or I do not know what to say or do, I turn my attention within myself. Then I listen to what my intuition and to what Existence within myself wants in this moment. Through listening within in this way, an answer often comes in the form of a creative and authentic impulse to say or do something or simply being silent until Existence is ready to respond.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

In the therapeutic process based on awareness, there exists no ”I – it just exists a presence, a light, a love and a silence.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Presence is not a question of judging or evaluating a client or a client’s situation. Presence is to see the client’s situation in a positive and creative light with a vision for how the present situation of the client relates to his further spiritual development. It is to accept a person as he is. It is to understand that the person is exactly where he needs to be in order to take the next step in his spiritual development. It is not about fighting with problems, darkness, drama and defences on the personality level, it is about becoming aware. It is about lighting the light in the inner being of another person.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Presence is to meet another person in meditation. Presence is to invite another person in meditation. It is a meeting in love, joy, acceptance, sincerity, truth, silence and oneness.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Presence is about how every action can arise from the quality, which we call awareness – the presence of our inner being, the presence of our soul. It is a large difference between working with people from the inner being and working with people from duty or a specific technique. Through working from the inner being, we can touch the soul of the other person, while we can only touch the personality of the other person, his surface and periphery, if we just work from a technique.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

Emptiness and the not-“I” is the quality that arises when the therapist consciously moves out of his own way without hindering the therapeutic process through his own ideas, attitudes, expectations and concepts. He is present, available and responds with the truth in the moment.

~ Swami Dhyan Giten

YOU HAVE TO BE STRONG ENOUGH TO BE WEAKAllow yourself to feel whatever you are feeling. Notice any labels you attach to crying or feeling vulnerable. Let go of the labels. Just feel what you are feeling, all the while cultivating moment-to-moment awareness, riding the waves of “up” and “down,” “good” and “bad,” “weak” and “strong,” until you see that they are all inadequate to fully describe your experience. Be with the experience itself. Trust in your deepest strength of all: to be present, to be wakeful.

~ Jon Kabat-Zinn

Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.

~ Jared Brock

The worst disability in life is a bad attitude.

~ Supanova Slom

The point of meditating is not to learn to sit quietly in a room. The point is to live that way in the world.

~ Chris Matakas

Program your life the way you want it to be: don't waste the unuse energy that lodges in the matrix of your soul. You are transcendent, be a superintendent.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Become the person of no rank. Become the noble soul, and live in this awakened way, not imitating anyone. Whatever the circumstances your life asks of you, respond to them in your own individual Zen-spirited way. Don't waste any time trying to be someone else...We are not here to have someone else's experience. We are here to have our own vivid experience. So please don't cling to yesterday, to what happened, to what didn't happen. And do not judge today by yesterday. Let us just live today to the fullest! Moment after moment, each sitting is the only sitting.

~ Maurine Stuart

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences—good and bad alike—are opportunities to learn and grow.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Don't let the excess of demand make you loose your command and get you further from what you've planned.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

From this moment forward, I am in control of every situation. I will always know the exact right action to take, and this is so. I will now obtain vibrant good health. I will have the possessions I want, I now have the power and wisdom to bring this about, and this is so. I will have peace and harmony in my life. I will have love and abundance, and this is so. I now claim all these things for my own from this time forward.

~ Chris Prentiss

Daily meditation promotes self confidence, peace of mind and strong faith in God.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Whenever a time arises where clarity is desired, it is always wise to reflect on the sage within.

~ Sereda Aleta Dailey

Meditation is a way to be narcissistic without hurting anyone

~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Our future lies on the horizon of our destiny.

~ Robin Hubbard

There is no destination except the one inside of you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Each woman has potential access to Rio Abajo Rio, this river beneath the river. She arrives there through deep meditation, dance, writing, painting, prayermaking, singing, drumming, active imagination, or any activity which requires an intense altered consciousness. A woman arrives in this world-between-worlds through yearning and by seeking something she can see just out of the corner of her eye. She arrives there by deeply creative acts, through intentional solitude, and by practice of any of the arts.

~ Clarissa Pinkola Estés

A thought weaves into another thought, seeking the other. The thought world has its-own Inner Life. A rose acts upon us through its symbolism, through its beauty, through our conscious & sub-conscious mind.Meditating we tap into the thought form of ‘rose adoration’.

~ Nataša Nuit Pantović