Meditation Quotes

Only inner-mastery can bring outer-mastery.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Often when we hear people speak about meditation, we hear about wisdom, we hear about knowledge. But what, actually, is the effect, what’s the use, of wisdom or knowledge? Understanding. When you understand mind, you’re not at its mercy. When you don’t understand, you’re lost in the midst of it.

~ Stephen Levine

In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Only in the present is your mind free to do what it does best — solve problems.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The easiest way to leave the past behind is to remember that love does not live in the past, only memories — love lives in the present.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Meditation is for many a foreign concept, somehow distant and foreboding, seemingly impossible to participate in. But another word for meditation is simply awareness. Meditation is awareness.

~ Stephen Levine

No amount of meditation, yoga, diet, and reflection will make all of our problems go away, but we can transform our difficulties into our practice until little by little they guide us on our way.

~ Jack Kornfield

This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.

~ Jack Kornfield

Life is so humbling, when we slow down and witness the gifts.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.

~ Jack Kornfield

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

~ Jack Kornfield

Start deep within yourself and slowly build outward toward your goal.

~ Bryant Mcgill

In sitting on the meditation cushion and assuming the meditation posture, we connect ourselves with the present moment in this body and on this earth.

~ Jack Kornfield

This life is like a roller-coaster; once you are strapped-in and the ride has started, you aren't getting off.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Only the frantic of fear can harm you. Your calm and centered self knows exactly what to do.

~ Bryant Mcgill

If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree. It completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are.

~ Matthieu Ricard

It is the garden of peace you seek, but it is not a tangible place that exists in the world — it is within. Go there, within.

~ Bryant Mcgill

True wisdom is being able to say 'it is what it is' with a smile of celebratory wonder on your face.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Meditate, Ānanda, do not delay, or else you will regret it later. This is our instruction to you.

~ Gautama Buddha

When you commune with your ever-present inner calm, you are released from the madness and pain of all outer turmoil.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Nothing is more necessary to the culture of the higher sciences, or of the more elevated departments of science, than meditation; and nothing is less suited to meditation than the structure of democratic society.

~ Alexis De Tocqueville

Let it all go and enjoy the profound gifts found in your quiet places.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Right where you are, the potential of the universe is.

~ Alexandra Katehakis

All things are accomplished by the meditative act of releasing illusions and simply becoming.

~ Bryant Mcgill

At the same time all the houses round about promptly took part in this silence, and so did the darkness above them, reaching as far as the stars. And the footsteps of invisible passers-by, whose course I had no wish to guess at, the wind that kept on driving against the other side of the street, the gramophone singing behind closed windows in some room - they made themselves heard in this silence, as if they had owned it for ever and ever.

~ Franz Kafka

When we are quiet and still we contract and settle.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Quit trying so hard and sit quietly with yourself and you will see that there are no demands within you.

~ Bryant Mcgill

The Best Music you can ever hear in your Life is Silence -- silence of yourself, silence of your loved ones

~ Vinay Kumar

Success is a spiritual process, not a worldly one; that is to say it is an internal process, and not external.

~ Bryant Mcgill

To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

~ Jack Kornfield

Success comes from finding your center and self.

~ Bryant Mcgill

I think they paid attention to their lives and became wise. For those of us who don’t arrive at wisdom naturally, meditation is one way to get there through practice.

~ Sylvia Boorstein

Two qualities are at the root of all meditation development: right effort and right aim—arousing effort to aim the mind toward the object.

~ Jack Kornfield

Success, just like poverty, is a state of mind.

~ Bryant Mcgill

You can become instantly successful with a simple thought, but long-lasting and pronounced success comes to those who renew their commitment to a mindset of abundance every minute of every hour of every day.

~ Bryant Mcgill

Meditation is a vehicle for opening to the truth of this impermanence on deeper and deeper levels.

~ Jack Kornfield

Meditation practice is neither holding on nor avoiding; it is a settling back into the moment, opening to what is there.

~ Jack Kornfield