70 Meditation Quotes to Find Stillness and peace

There is no secret that meditation is good for you. Studies have proven that having a regular meditation practice can do everything from alleviating your anxiety to lowering your blood pressure, improving cognitive function and even slowing down the process of aging. And many of these benefits can be experienced by quieting the mind for a mere 15 to 20 minutes a day. While quotes about meditation won’t replace your meditation practice, they can serve as inspiration. Find stillness and peace as you read these profound meditation quotes.

Meditation Quotes

1. “Meditation is the way to fix appointment with your inner self.” ~ Invajy

2. “Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.” ~ Diana Robinson

3. “Mindfulness meditation brings you out of muddy thoughts and shower with clean vibrations.” ~ Invajy

4. “Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.” ~ Owen Feltham

5. “Discover yourself in the light of meditation and get enlightened.” ~ Invajy

6. “The quiet mind is richer than a crown.” ~ Robert Greene
7. “Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.” ~ Arianna Huffington
8. “Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.” ~ Pema Chodron
9. “Learn to be calm and you will always be happy” ~ Paramahansa Yogananda
10. “The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” ~ Lao Tzu

Quotes about Meditation

11. “It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself” ~ Jon Kabat-Zinn
12. “That’s life: starting over, one breath at a time.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
13. “Mediation is not spacing out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves” ~ Kathleen McDonald
14. “The thing about meditation is you become more and more you.” ~ David Lynch
15. “I meditate so that my mind cannot complicate my life” ~ Sri Chinmoy
16. “With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips.” ~ Tara Stiles
17. “Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.”~ Ajahn Brahm
18. “Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.” ~ Dan Harris
19. “Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” ~ Isaac Newton
20. “Mediation means dissolving the invisible walls that unaware has built” ~ Sadhguru

Short Meditation Quotes

21. “Peace is a meditation achieved through still mind.” – Invajy
22. “The act of meditation is being spacious.”~ Sogyal Rinpoche
23. “Mediation applies the brakes to the mind” ~ Rama Maharshi
24. “Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance.” ~ Buddha
25. “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear” ~ Rumi
26. “Meditation is food for your brain, eat it daily for better mental health.” ~ Invajy
27. “I just started with watching my breath and evolved from there.”  ~ Naval Ravikant
28. “The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.” ~ Napoleon Bonaparte
29. “Meditation is allowing what is” ~ Victor Davich
30. “Sleep is the best meditation.” ~ Dalai Lama

Best Meditation Quotes

31. “Remember the blue sky. It may at times be obscured by clouds, but it is always there.” ~ Andy Puddicombe
32. “When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a candle in a windless place” ~ Bhagavad Gita
33. “Be here now. Be someplace later. Is that so complicated?” ~ David M. Bader
34. “Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.” ~ Bryant McGill
35. “Silence of meditation isn’t empty; it is full of answers which one can’t find in noisy daily routines.” ~ Invajy
36. “Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless-like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.”~ Bruce Lee
37. “The goal of mediation is not to get rid of thoughts or emotions. The goal is to become more aware of your thoughts and emotions and learn how to move through them without getting stuck.” ~ Dr. P Goldin
38. “Meditate. Let the light of the heart engulf you.” ~ Chidvilasananda
39. “When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset. Reacquaint yourself with the earth beneath your feet. Thank the air that surrounds you with every breath you take. Find yourself in the appreciation of life.” ~ Christy Ann Martine
40. “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” ~ Marcus Aurelius

Meditation Quotes

41. “Meditation could be said to be the Art of Simplicity: simply sitting, simply breathing and simply being.” ~ Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
42. “You get peace of mind not by thinking about it or imagining it, but by quietening and relaxing the restless mind.” ~ Remez Sasson
43. “The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.” ~ James Allen
44. “Meditation is hanging out with your soul.” ~ Rachel Ritlop
45. “The more regularly and the more deeply you meditate, the sooner you will find yourself acting always from a center of inner peace.” ~ J. Donald Walters
46. “A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Schedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite” ~ Roy Eugene Davis
47. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; it is the source of all true art and science.” ~ Albert Einstein
48. “Through meditation, the Higher Self is experienced.” ~ Bhagavad Gita
49. “Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.” ~ Sharon Salzberg
50. “Practice meditation, you can’t feel it until you do it. Once you feel it, you will above average human being.” ~ Invajy

Relaxing Meditation Quotes

51. “Meditation is for moms what eyesight is for pilots. It allows us to see where we’re headed, respond to conditions in our environment, and make adjustments when necessary” ~ Amber Trueblood
52. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
53. “Mediation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity” ~ Baba Ram Dass
54. “Meditation speeds up the evolutionary process by gradually purifying negative tendencies.” ~ Master Choa Kok Su
55. “Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.”~ Swami Muktananda
56. “To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and things go on their own” ~ Jack Kornfield
57. “Altogether, the idea of meditation is not to create states of ecstasy or absorption, but to experience being.” ~  Chogyam Trungpa
58. “Meditation is not evasion, it is a serene encounter with reality” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
59. “You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer” ~ Eckhart Tolle
60. “Don’t hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.”~ Zen Master Bankei Yotaku

Healing Meditation Quotes

61. “Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.” ~ Tim Ferriss
62. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.”~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
63. “If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.” ~ Ajahn Amaro
64. “If you are exploring truth of life, explore the present moment. Living in the present moment is the only truth of life.” – Invajy
65. “The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it” ~ Dalai Lama
66. “Meditation is bringing the mind home.” ~ Sogyal Rinpoche
67. “Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” ~ Alan Watts
68. “Sunday is a day of reflection; to think about, meditate on, and evaluate your behaviors, thoughts, attitudes, motivations, and desires.” ~ Invajy
69. “If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow. Happiness lies ahead. Meditation is key.” ~ Buddha
70. “The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.” ~ Sakyong Mipham

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