Meditation Quotes (to calm the mind and heart!)

The only way of development is constant effort through meditation.

Dalai Lama

Keep an open mind, as well as the ability to care about humanity and the awareness of being a part of it.

Dalai Lama

There is only one miracle, the miracle of meditation, which takes the individual away from the mind. And the heart always welcomes you and is prepared to give you passage, to guide you in the direction of your being. And being is his fullness, it is his supreme well-being.

Osho

A deep meditation is worth a thousand words.

Jewish Texts

Objectless meditation is the arrow that shoots without the bow letting go.

Agostinho Silva

The danger of meditating is that of unintentionally starting to think, and thinking is no longer meditating, thinking is a guide to an objective.

Clarice Lispector

The past is a lesson to meditate on, not to reproduce.

Mario de Andrade

Meditation is an end in itself. There is no other end besides it. Everything that has an end beyond itself is intended only for the mediocre mind, and everything that is an end in itself is intended for the truly intelligent person.

Osho

All ideas drive you away from yourself, hence the definition of meditation as a state of consciousness without ideas. In meditation, there is no way to get away from ourselves, we are simply centered in our own being. There is no object that we can see. We are all alone. Our consciousness begins to turn on itself.

Osho

The peace comes from inside yourself. Don’t look for it around you.

Buddha

Whoever gives himself up to vanity and does not give himself up to meditation, in time will envy the one who has made an effort in meditation.

Buddhist Texts

Even the gods envy those who are watchful and not negligent, who give themselves over to meditation, who are wise, and who delight in the stillness of spiritual retreat.

Buddhist Texts

Who transforms, transforms the world.

Dalai Lama

Happy is the man who can devote his time to studies and meditations, resisting temptations.

Jewish Texts

The free man thinks least of death, and his wisdom is a meditation, not on death, but on life.

Baruch Espinoza

The power of the universe is within me.

Man was not made to meditate, but to act.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Wisdom can be attained by three paths. The first path is that of meditation, which is the noblest. The second is imitation, which is the easiest and least satisfying. Thirdly, there is the path of experience, which is the most difficult.

Confucius

Silence is the secret to hearing the sounds of life.

When you have your mind moistened with love, you can begin to meditate on compassion.

Dalai Lama

I think ninety-nine times and find nothing; I stop thinking, plunge into deep silence – and behold, the truth is revealed.

Albert Einstein

Meditation is a way of going within yourself.

Osho

To meditate, in philosophy, is to move from the known to the unknown, and here to face the real.

Paul Valery

Painters should only meditate with brushes in hand.

Honoré de Balzac

Study confers science, but meditation, originality.

Marquis of Marica

Perfect action is the fruit of perfect meditation.

Hindu texts

Prayer is when you talk to God, meditation is when you hear God talk to you.

Love is the closest phenomenon to meditation: lovers drop their masks, they are one soul within two bodies.

Osho

I meditated a long time on the wall. It is in you that the true wall exists.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves you in ignorance. Know well what drives you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that guides you to wisdom.

Buddha

There are attitudes of man that lead him to maturity, one of them is meditation.

Tailini Girardi

Pray. There is immeasurable power in that.

Dalai Lama

When a person perceives the infinity of forms and elements in the universe, he turns to the void, to the void. In other words, the void is nothing but the true form of the universe.

Gichin Funakoshi

Meditation is the glass of the soul’s perspective.

Owen Feltham

A meditator rethinks something that can be confirmed or changed.

Writers, meditate a lot and correct little. Make your erasures in your own brain.

Victor Hugo

In solitude is when we are least alone.

Lord Byron

Meditating makes us think, thinking makes us reflect, reflecting makes us see life from another angle, from another perspective.

The true pilgrimage is meditation on the Word and self-knowledge.

Guru Nanak

Meditation is the discovery that the goal of existence is always attained in the present moment.

Alan Wilson Watts

Meditation is the fertilizer of consciousness and an investment for the successes of everyday life.

Meditation on the fact that death is inevitable should be done daily.

Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Don’t live in the past, don’t dream about the future, focus your mind on the present moment.

Be patient. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear.

Lao Tzu

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a stroke of luck.

Dalai Lama

In deep meditation, the knower, the knowledge and the known become one.

Iyengar

There must be something in common between medication and meditation, they have the same effect.

Elvis Presley

Attachment to spiritual things is attachment in the same way as any exaggerated love for anything else.

Thomas Merton