For Lovers of Meditation

Meditation Quotations

These meditation quotations will inspire you to greater depths of inner peace and will enhance your understanding of the nature of mind. You can find even more great meditation quotes here.


Your mind is your instrument. Learn to be its master and not its slave.

~ Remez Sasson ~


In the beginning you will fall into the gaps in between thoughts - after practicing for years, you become the gap.

~ J.Kleykamp ~


Better indeed is knowledge than mechanical practice. Better than knowledge is meditation. But better still is surrender of attachment to results, because there follows immediate peace.

~ Bhagavad Gita ~


A racing mind that reacts sensitively to little things indicates thinking that has lost its spiritual strength. Meditation restores that power.

~ Innerspace ~


Every moment there is a possibility to be total. Whatsoever you are doing, be absorbed in it so utterly that the mind thinks nothing, is just there, is just a presence. And more and more totality will be coming. And the taste of totality will make you more and more capable of being total. And try to see when you are not total. Those are the moments which have to be dropped slowly, slowly. When you are not total, whenever you are in the head—thinking, brooding, calculating, cunning, clever—you are not total. Slowly, slowly slip out of those moments. It is just an old habit. Habits die hard. But they die certainly—if one persists, they die. 

~ Osho ~


If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience. On the other hand, if someone is suffering from depression, anxiety, or any form of emotional distress, then even if he or she happens to be enjoying physical comforts, he will not really be able to experience the happiness that these could bring.

~ Dalai Lama ~


Silence is a fence around wisdom.

~ German Proverb ~


Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a polluted mind, suffering will follow you, as the wheels of the oxcart follow the footsteps of the ox. Everything is based on mind, is led by mind, is fashioned by mind. If you speak and act with a pure mind, happiness will follow you, as a shadow clings to a form.

~ Buddha ~


When we meditate we expand, spreading our wings like a bird, trying to enter consciously into Infinity, Eternity and Immortality, welcoming them into our aspiring consciousness. We see, feel and grow into the entire universe of Light-Delight.

~ Sri Chinmoy ~


Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It reveals. It reveals to the aspirant that matter and spirit are one, quantity and quality are one, the immanent and the transcendent are one. It reveals that life can never be the mere existence of seventy or eighty years between birth and death, but is, rather, Eternity itself.

~ Sri Chinmoy ~


If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.

~ Osho ~


When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential centre of our being.

~ Rudolf Steiner ~


Do you have the patience to wait till your mind settles and the water is clear? Can you remain unmoving till the right action arises by itself.

~ Lao Tzu ~


Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

~ Jeremy Taylor ~


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