Meditation Quotes

When you know the knower within, you don't need to know further. When you know the meditator within, you don't need to meditate further. When you truly know the worshiper in you, you are to be worshiped.

~ Amit Ray

Compassion is all inclusive. Compassion knows no boundaries. Compassion comes with awareness, and awareness breaks all narrow territories.

~ Amit Ray

If you’re reading these words, perhaps it’s because something has kicked open the door for you, and you’re ready to embrace change. It isn’t enough to appreciate change from afar, or only in the abstract, or as something that can happen to other people but not to you. We need to create change for ourselves, in a workable way, as part of our everyday lives.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The closer you come to knowing that you alone create the world of your experience, the more vital it becomes for you to discover just who is doing the creating.

~ Eric Micha'el Leventhal

Kindness and awareness work together. Through awareness we understand the underlying beauty of everything and every being.

~ Amit Ray

Love is being able to view a situation without adding duality to it.

~ Alaric Hutchinson

To advance spiritually requires a method of practice & determination to carry it out.

~ Allan Lokos

I believe there are only three businesses: my business, other people's business, and God's business.

~ Tobe Hanson

Later that day when I walked down this dried-out riverbed, enjoying the last rays of sunshine on my bare skin, I felt a deep inner peace coming up straight from my heart.

~ Nina Hrusa

I believe I will not not die a minute too early or a minute too late, but exactly when I am supposed to.

~ Tobe Hanson

If you feel anxiety or depression, you are not in the present. You are either anxiously projecting the future or depressed and stuck in the past. The only thing you have any control over is the present moment; simple breathing exercises can make us calm and present instantly.

~ Tobe Hanson

Die wertvollste Reise ist die Reise zu unserem Selbst.

~ Nina Hrusa

Sometimes it was during the breaks that the real meditation happened - moments when it was obvious that wisdom is not something you have, but a wave-length you tune in to.

~ Matt Padwick

‪A wise man once said, 'Life is like breathing. If you try to hold it, you'll lose it. But let it come & go & you'll always be connected to it.'‬

~ Curtis Tyrone Jones

No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.

~ Natalie Wright

Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat. I breathed. I let past go. I let future go. I am. That is all.

~ Natalie Wright

Find the light within you through meditation and introspection, and you will illuminate your life from within.

~ Amy Leigh Mercree

It's always the mind that needs quietening and the heart that needs listening to.

~ Rasheed Ogunlaru

Even enjoying a cup of tea, with all your senses involved in it is also pure meditation.

~ Harrish Sairaman

Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others.

~ Sharon Salzberg

When you recognize and reflect on even one good thing about yourself, you are building a bridge to a place of kindness and caring.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Perfection is fragile, interacting with something that seems perfect puts it in peril.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The idea that traumatic residues—or unresolved stories—can be inherited is groundbreaking.

~ Sharon Salzberg

The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.

~ Sharon Salzberg

Vipassana meditation is an ongoing creative purification process. Observation of the moment-to-moment experience cleanses the mental layers, one after another.

~ Amit Ray

Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.

~ Amit Ray

Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.

~ Stephen Richards

If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.

~ Paul Brunton

We all need something that takes us out of day to day and reminds us that it's all ok.

~ Ian Tucker

There is no distinction between means and ends. There is no way to happiness, happiness is the way. There is no way to enlightenment, enlightenment is the way.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

Without suffering there cannot be happiness. Without mud there cannot be any lotus flowers.

~ Thich Nhat Hanh

I'm starting to think paradise isn't eternal contentment. It's more like there's something eternal about feeling contented. There's no such thing as eternal life, because you're never going to outrun time, but you can still escape time if you're contented, because then time doesn't matter.

~ Jonathan Franzen

Our habitual failure to recognise thought as thought, our habitual identification with discursive thought, is the primary source of human suffering.

~ Sam Harris

Here's the thing about meditation, as I try once again to make it a habit... Even when I close my eyes to meditate for five minutes, body fidgeting, mind racing and worrying and busying itself with everything but the present moment, I still feel quieter, more relaxed when I open my eyes. Maybe it's just the simple act of giving myself five dedicated minutes of attention (no matter how they play out) to the calm, knowing soul that smiles from within at all of my mental nonsense. We are beings of peace after all. And of love. So much goodness, so much understanding and compassion lives inside each of us, like wide-eyed children, always ready to come out and play.

~ Scott Stabile

The more you treat your body and the cells as intelligent being the more you will be sharp, quick, competent, and fulfilled.

~ Amit Ray

You should try to avoid using the words should and try.

~ Swami Pranayomama

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.

~ Kamand Kojouri

The practice of sympathetic joy is rooted in inner development. It’s not a matter of learning techniques to “make friends and influence people.” Instead, we build the foundations of our own happiness. When our own cup is full, we more easily share it with others.

~ Sharon Salzberg