Top 33 Insight Meditation Quotes

#1. In a speedy and aggressive culture, we need different principles to live by-bravery and insight. The first moment of bravery is building trust in the mind, which we do in meditation. When we know how to create peace in our own mind, we can transform the world.

Sakyong Mipham

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#2. If I may take the risk of defining what a spiritual experience is, it is one in which pure awareness reveals itself to you as the maker of reality - where you suddenly discover through insight or meditation or a freak accident that your essential nature is spiritual, non-material.

Deepak Chopra

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#3. The overarching practice of letting go is also one of gaining resilience and insight.

Sharon Salzberg

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#4. Meditation is like a single log of wood. Insight and investigation are one end of the log; calm and concentration are the other end. If you lift up the whole log, both sides come up at once. Which is concentration and which is insight? Just this mind.

Ajahn Chah

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#5. Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.

Nhat Hanh

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#6. There's another style of meditation that I've been doing since my mid-twenties. Tapping into your higher self to get a glimpse of yourself from the outside and get insight into what's going on in your life. I learned that from my godfather in my mid-twenties.

India.Arie

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#7. Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

Ajahn Brahm

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#8. I look upon the pleasure which we take in a garden as one of the most innocent delights in human life ... It gives us a great insight into the contrivance and wisdom of Nature, and suggests innumerable subjects for meditation.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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#9. Meditation is an insight that all goals are false. Meditation is an understanding that desires don't lead anywhere. Seeing that ... And this is not a belief that you can get from me or from Buddha or from Jesus. This is not knowledge; you will have to see it. You can see it right now!

Rajneesh

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#10. You cannot control the results, only your actions.

Allan Lokos

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#11. Though all the major fairy tale families were coming tonight, I wouldn't exactly call any of them friends. Aside from the once-a-year gathering, I never spoke to any of them, except the occasional chat on Flitter with Cinderella, since we shared a love of designer footwear.

Betsy Schow

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#12. Becoming aware of the dearness in what might otherwise be regarded as mundane is the ultimate form of insight.

L.M. Browning

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#13. Only the Holy Spirit can open our eyes. Only He can convict us of the depth of our sin, and only He can convince us of the truth of the Gospel.

Billy Graham

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#14. Many scientists think that philosophy has no place, so for me it's a sad time because the role of reflection, contemplation, meditation, self inquiry, insight, intuition, imagination, creativity, free will, is in a way not given any importance, which is the domain of philosophers.

Deepak Chopra

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#15. To open the possibility for self-honesty, you have to develop insight, which can be achieved through meditation, therapy, other sorts of sensitivity training, and simply spending periods of time alone to find out who you really are, what you really believe, and what you really, really want.

Stephen Russell

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#16. It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.

Steve Harvey

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#17. Your mind is a book; God is the pen.

Michael Bassey Johnson

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#18. To attain to enlightenment is to attain to all. When you are not, you become the whole.

Swami Dhyan Giten

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#19. Practicing art is a meditation; an artwork is an insight.

William Ash

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#20. Everyone has a need to do penance. It's a basic need, like washing. It's about harmony, an absolutely essential inner balance. It's the balance we call morality.

Jo Nesbo

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#21. To understand ourselves and our life is the point of insight meditation: to understand and to be free.

Jack Kornfield

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#22. Do not believe anything I tell you. Do not take my advice.

Swami Pranayomama

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#23. Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.

Nhat Hanh

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#24. The first thing I can remember clearly is writing the way into the secret room.

Ursula K. Le Guin

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#25. One can be emptied out and be filled up.

Isabelle Adjani

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#26. How quickly people changed, with their interests, their feelings. Well-made phrases replaced by well-made phrases, time is a flow of words coherent only in appearance, the one who piles up the most is the one who wins.

Elena Ferrante

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#27. Be fabulous or die

Mariah McKenzie

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#28. For me, there's a very clear parallel between the practice of insight in Buddhism and what's called prajna - the insight that arrives through meditation.

Jess Row

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#29. Some of them will, but most of them are willed. Some of them are genuine, but most of them are bad actors.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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#30. History is a river that never ends. Today is history, and I am here at the fountainhead.

Wilbur Smith

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#31. All my friends are in my books.

B. Cameron Lee

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#32. The insights we receive when going silent, it's our gift to ourselves. Returning and living them, sharing them, that is our gift to the world.

Kamal Ravikant

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#33. When something happens to you that is beyond words, life is happening to you. When the Ultimate is happening to you, you are beyond words.

Swami Dhyan Giten

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