Top 41 Breath Meditation Quotes
#1. Every breath you take, you are getting closer to the grave. But every breath you take, you can also get closer to your liberation.
Jaggi Vasudev
#2. Meditation is to understand that one breath, which connects all beings.
Amit Ray
#3. Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#4. Doing meditation you may need to experiment to discover what kinds of thoughts are best for your own unique interests and situation. For you it might be a repetitive "mantra," or simply an open state of watching your breath, like in the Buddhist tradition.
Tim McCarthy
#5. If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
Amit Ray
#6. In order to build continuity and momentum in the meditation practice, you will need to keep reminding yourself to come back to the breath over and over again, no matter what the mind is up to from one moment to the next.
Jon Kabat-Zinn
#7. It's not just self defense, it's about ... self control, body discipline, and mind discipline ... and breath techniques. It involves yoga. It involves meditation. It's an art, not a sport.
Elvis Presley
#8. Thought ceases in meditation; even the mind's elements are quite quiet. Blood circulation stops. His breath stops, but he is not dead.
Swami Vivekananda
#9. A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.
Toshimi A. Kayaki
#10. Like the practice of breath control, meditation on the forms of God, repetition of mantras, food restrictions, etc., are but aids for rendering the mind quiescent.
Ramana Maharshi
#12. Remember that breath walking - as with any meditation technique - should not be pursued with a grim determination to 'get it right.' The point is to cultivate openness, relaxation and awareness, which can include awareness of your undisciplined, wandering mind.
Andrew Weil
#13. Your concentration must come as easily as the breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. By constant meditation it gains strength.
Ramana Maharshi
#14. During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.
Mike Love
#15. Spiritual practice is not just sitting and meditation. Practice is looking, thinking, touching, drinking, eating and talking. Every act, every breath, and every step can be practice and can help us to become more ourselves.
Nhat Hanh
#16. No matter how strange things get, know that with every breath, you are becoming that which you have always been.
Eric Micha'el Leventhal
#17. How does one practice mindfulness? Sit in meditation. Be aware of only your breath.
Gautama Buddha
#18. Observation and expansion are two elements of meditation. While a teacher may guide you to have the right posture and give instruction on following the breath, no one can teach you about the experience. It comes through practice and patience.
Debra Moffitt
#19. From our first breath to our last, we're presented again and again with the opportunity to experience deep, lasting, and trans-formative connection with other beings: to love them and be loved by them; to show them our true natures and to recognize theirs.
Sharon Salzberg
#20. Meditation is not about getting rid of all your thoughts; it's learning not to get so lost in them that you forget what your goal is. Don't worry if your focus isn't perfect when meditating. Just practice coming back to the breath, again and again.
Kelly McGonigal
#21. Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul.
Rajneesh
#22. Every time we forget to breathe or our minds wander or we're hijacked by feelings or sensations, we gently bring ourselves back to the breath, again and again.
Sharon Salzberg
#23. The Tantric sages tell us that our in-breath and out-breath actually mirror the divine creative gesture. With the inhalation, we draw into our own center, our own being. With the exhalation, we expand outward into the world.
Sally Kempton
#24. Sometimes, sitting there on the cushion failing to watch your breath, it can feel like you're the only weirdo weird enough to be wasting your time in this way. But you're not! There are generations of weirdos, monasteries full of them, and we have the benefit of their accumulated wisdom.
Jay Michaelson
#25. The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.
Leonard D. Orr
#26. Without intention, all these postures, these breathing practices, meditations, and the like can become little more than ineffectual gestures. When animated by intention, however, the simplest movement, the briefest meditation, and the contents of one breath cycle are made potent.
Donna Farhi
#27. In sitting meditation, our practice is to watch our thoughts arise, label them "thinking", and return to the breath.
Pema Chodron
#29. The more we learn to link the use of breath, mind, and voice, the greater our own power in life.
Ted Andrews
#30. Your breath is a unique object to meditation because it resides right at the boundary between inside and outside, between you and the outside world.
Steve Hagen
#31. The breath is the first tool for opening the space between the story you tell yourself about love.
Sharon Salzberg
#32. But in this meditation technique, we are with the out-breath; there's no particular instruction about what to do until the next out-breath.
Pema Chodron
#33. When we sit in meditation, we are closer than usual to the world as it is. By simply bringing body, breath, and mind together in the present moment, we touch Buddha; we touch reality, and we are in the world as it is. Most people's experience in this state is peaceful and rejuvenating.
Andrew Furst
#34. The focusing of attention on the breath is perhaps the most universal of the many hundreds of meditation subjects used worldwide.
Jack Kornfield
#35. It starts with a single breath and the present moment, but where it takes you is into the vast radiance of your true nature, into a magical, spacious life.
Narissa Doumani
#36. Maintain your physical, emotional, and spiritual harmony with the universe by meditating every day. Inhale the precious breath of life. It is your connection to your Higher power.
Louise Hay
#37. In fact everything can become a sort of meditation, because in everything there are two dimensions - just as there are in the first breath: the outer and the inner.
Rajneesh
#38. Over all the mountain tops is peace. In all treetops you perceive scarcely a breath. The little birds in the forest are silent. Wait then; soon, you too, will have peace.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#39. When we're being mindful, we're paying attention to the present moment, deliberately and non-judgementally. When we're meditating, we're being mindful of a specific object, such as the sensation of the breath at the tip of our nostrils, for a sustained period of time.
David Michie
#40. If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.
Rama Swami
#41. Today, find a point of stillness: brief, but precious slight, but full small, but luminously real. Find a point stillness in the balance of all things between the breathing out and breathing in.
Na'ama Yehuda
