Top 100 Mind Meditation Quotes
#1. Thinking is the natural activity of the mind. Meditation is not about stopping your thoughts. Meditation is simply a process of resting the mind in its natural state, which is open to and naturally aware of thoughts, emotions, and sensations as they occur.
Eric Swanson
#2. Well, when you're relaxed, your mind takes you to the whole reality. There's no such thing as time when you're really relaxed. That's why meditation works.
Shirley Maclaine
#3. Only when there are no impressions of others clouding our mind, can we sit and practice the glorious practice of meditation.
Frederick Lenz
#4. You give up not meditating. It's called meditation action. There's no way out of it. Meditation means to be constantly extricating yourself from the clinging of mind.
Ram Dass
#6. Rest in natural great peace, this exhausted mind, beaten helpless by karma and neurotic thought, like the relentless fury of the pounding waves in the infinite ocean of samsara.
Nyoshul Khenpo Rinpoche
#7. No difference, good or bad. Thoughts like birds in mind. Some fly in. Some fly out. Some stay at water hole to drink. Beware of birds that linger.
Natalie Wright
#8. Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable ...
Rajneesh
#9. [W]hen the mind is really absent, in that silence, in that unlimited space, your potential starts glowing, radiating, flowering. Suddenly you are full of cherry blossoms, a new presence, a new fragrance.
Rajneesh
#10. Meditation depends upon the strength of mind. It must be unceasing even when one is engaged in work. Particular time for it is meant for novices.
Ramana Maharshi
#11. Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation.
Jiddu Krishnamurti
#12. One need not scale the heights of the heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find Him in one's own heart.
Zoroaster
#13. In meditation you experience time slowing down because you can notice more things per discreet moment and you're more open ... The word 'meditation' in Sanskrit comes from the word 'familiarization' - as in familiarization with one's own mind.
Richard Davidson
#14. It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.
Teresa Of Avila
#15. You must direct your full, intense concentration on the heart. You must feel that you are not the mind. You have to feel that you are growing into the heart. You are only the heart and nothing else.
Sri Chinmoy
#16. As you meditate, you will be able to look at the beauties and horrors of life and accept them with an equal mind. You will love more and be kinder to those around you.
Frederick Lenz
#17. Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.
Sri Aurobindo
#18. 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
#19. Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.
Frederick Lenz
#20. Whose meditation is real and effective? Who can really surrender to the will of God? Only the person whose mind has been purified by selfless work.
Swami Vivekananda
#21. Meditation has only one meaning, and that is going beyond the mind and becoming a witness. In your witnessing is the miracle - the whole mystery of life
Rajneesh
#22. Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.
Swami Muktananda
#23. Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.
Swami Muktananda
#24. Meditation is the study of making the mind still. As your mind becomes still, a power enters you. This power transmogrifies your mind, it escalates your evolution and you begin to cycle through many incarnations in one lifetime.
Frederick Lenz
#25. 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
#26. Every hour of your life that ticks by, there are numerous points and moments when you can choose to pause - and be aware of your mental and physical state. At any given point, you can freeze the flow that is your life, and be fully conscious for a moment.
Kevin Michel
#27. I was quite possibly in the midst of losing my mind. I needed to get away from people until I figured out if I actually was losing my mind.
Ransom Riggs
#29. Mindfulness practice begins to open up everything. We open our mind to memories, to emotions, to different sensations in the body. In meditation this happens in a very organic way, because we are not searching, we are not pulling or probing, we are just sitting and watching.
Joseph Goldstein
#30. The emphasis in meditation is very much on undistracted awareness: not thinking about things, not analyzing, not getting lost in the story, but just seeing the nature of what is happening in the mind. Careful, accurate observation of the moment's reality is the key to the whole process.
Joseph Goldstein
#31. When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.
Sri Chinmoy
#32. The primary object of meditation is to not become overly attached to any particular thoughts that may come into to the mind. It is most important to let the mind "flow," with less mental worry about, and attachment to, the various thoughts that may come into the mind.
Tim McCarthy
#33. Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#34. Worship offered with stale flowers and an unclean mind is of no value.
Shri Radhe Maa
#35. Study the heart and the mind of man, and begin with your own. Meditation and reflection must lay the foundation of that knowledge, but experience and practice must, and alone can, complete it.
Lord Chesterfield
#36. The meditative mind sees disagreeable or agreeable things with equanimity, patience, and good-will. Transcendent knowledge is seeing reality in utter simplicity. (146)
Jean-Yves Leloup
#37. To enhance your inner beauty, harmonize your mind and thoughts with nature through meditation.
Debasish Mridha
#38. You don't have to set aside a time for meditation. You can do it while you're driving your car,while you're at work, while you're playing music. Just be aware of yourself, of who you really are,and realize the rest is a projection of your mind.
Robert Adams
#39. Meditation is a powerful way to enhance your attention, develop your ability to think mindfully, and to use the unlimited creative potential of your mind.
Ilchi Lee
#40. Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.
Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
#41. Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.
Patanjali
#42. When I found yoga, I realized that I can direct my own mind through my yoga practice and meditation. I can actually create my own mood. That was a huge awakening for me.
MC Yogi
#43. Happiness is found principally in meditation. Let your mind flow out into eternity. You have to exert some effort. Then you will notice a subtle smile on your face.
Frederick Lenz
#44. Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.
Paul Brunton
#45. The Stone of Guilt in the River of the Mind, the block in the flow of intelligence.
~ Paramahamsa Nithyananda
Paramahamsa Nithyananda
#46. The desert, more than anything else, opens the human mind to observation, meditation, and initiation into meaning.
Tariq Ramadan
#47. Transcendental Meditation is a mental technique, so you travel to this field through subtler levels of mind, and then subtler levels of intellect, and then, at the border of intellect, you transcend and experience it.
David Lynch
#48. Meditation helped me to access the same thing my writing did: my intelligence and my instincts beyond the turmoil that inhabited the forefront of my mind.
Jewel
#49. In meditation the mind stops, thought ceases. When thought stops, the world stops. When the world stops, perception stops. When perception stops, the sense of "I" as a perceiver falls away.
Frederick Lenz
#50. Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.
Bryant McGill
#51. To think is to have doubt ... yet even thinking will bring you to "no thought" ... eventually.
Vivian Amis
#52. We need spend out time in feeling the moment rather then creating the moment. Let it flow as it and just feel everything. Brain is employee of mind.
Yogi
#53. The unconscious mind is a vast repository of experiences and associations that sorts things out much faster than the slow-moving conscious mind.
Sharon Salzberg
#54. Mind is something unnatural; it never becomes your natural state. But meditation is a natural state - which we have lost.
Rajneesh
#55. Through meditation, you can calm the mind and develop what is important to you.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
#56. Before I was a Scientist, I was a Monk. And before I was a Monk, I was a naive young mind with ever- flowing streams of questions. And one of those questions, that always used to create intense ripples of curiosity in my psyche, was - Does God exist? And has anyone seen or experienced him?
Abhijit Naskar
#57. Simple things relieve eyes; simple things ease mind, simple things create meditation, simple things are simply miraculous!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#58. you know things, without knowing how you know, but you know it is true
Avis J. Williams
#59. To me, the relationship between meditation and running is natural, for one is a training of the mind and one is a training of the body.
Sakyong Mipham
#60. The mind and the breath are the king and queen of human consciousness.
Leonard D. Orr
#61. Training our mind through meditation does not mean forcibly subjugating it or beating it into shape.
Sharon Salzberg
#62. Meditation is the art of silencing the mind so that you may hear the inklings of the Soul.
Manprit Kaur
#63. By fully focusing your mind on your chakras, stilling your thoughts, and increasing your kundalini flow, you can rise above your body consciousness and unite your mind with the clear light of nirvana.
Frederick Lenz
#64. Meditation is the process of quieting one's mind, and letting go of the worries and stress of life.
Tim McCarthy
#65. Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past.
Rajneesh
#66. Computer science is the most misunderstood field there is. You are being paid to solve puzzles. For a person who has practiced meditation in past lives, that is the way your mind works.
Frederick Lenz
#67. Like silence after noise, or cool, clear water on a hot, stuffy day, Emptiness cleans out the messy mind and charges up the batteries of spiritual energy. Many people are afraid of Emptiness, however, because it reminds them of Loneliness.
Benjamin Hoff
#68. Mind only thinks, meditation lives.
Rajneesh
#69. I start my day with a mind, body, soul practice - yoga, Pilates or meditation.
Donna Karan
#70. Meditation gives you the wherewithal to pause, observe how easily the mind can exaggerate the severity of a setback, and resist getting drawn into the abyss.
Richard Davidson
#71. If japa is maintained, no useless talk during work will be possible. The mind will always remain peaceful. Modern day diseases are mostly psychosomatic. Japa will bestow good health to both mind and body.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#72. Mind is knowledge, meditation is non-knowledge. Mind knows, meditation experiences. Mind can only give you a certain acquaintance but not the taste. If you want the taste of the Tao you have to move to no-mind, to Meditation.
Rajneesh
#73. Meditation is to be aware of what is going on: in your body, in your feelings, in your mind, and in the world.
Thich Nhat Hanh
#74. Inner stillness is the key to outer strength.
Jared Brock
#75. If we define ourselves by each of the ever-changing feelings that cascade through us, how will we ever feel at home in our own bodies and minds?
Sharon Salzberg
#76. Develop the ability to stand back as a witness to your thoughts. This will make your mind strong.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#78. Meditation is unfocussed mind, you simply listen silently, not with a tension in the mind, not with an urge to know and learn, no, with total relaxedness, in a let go, in an opening of your being. You listen, not to know, you simply listen to understand.
Rajneesh
#79. The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.
Douglas Preston
#80. The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the germs of its production.
Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte De Buffon
#81. All happiness is inside your own mind. Chances are, you have not discovered that. Meditation is about experiencing the happiness inside your mind.
Frederick Lenz
#82. Breathing meditation can quiet the mind, open the body, and develop a great power of concentration.
Jack Kornfield
#83. The mental ability to concentrate is inherent to all; it is not extraordinary or mysterious. Meditation is not something that a Yogi has to teach you; you already have the ability to shut out thoughts.
Sivananda
#84. I like to write on airplanes ... that forced meditation time when you have nothing else to do, so your mind is allowed to go to places it wouldn't otherwise go.
Jon Foreman
#85. The practice of meditation is emptying the mind. When the mind is empty, completely empty, it's perfect meditation. It's really that simple.
Frederick Lenz
#86. In meditation, when your mind becomes perfectly still and calm, you will experience the golden light of eternity.
Frederick Lenz
#87. In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind.
Vivian Amis
#88. With 70,000 thoughts a day and 95% of our activity controlled by the subconscious mind, no wonder that it feels as though we are asleep most of the time. To awake, we need to train Self-Remembering and Mindfulness.
Natasa Nuit Pantovic
#89. Without meditation, contemplation and skillful action, the anger lurking in your mind can become
the (d)anger within your life."
Leonard Perlmutter (Ram Lev)
Leonard Perlmutter
#91. Whatever is associated with the mind is bound to change. The truth is that which is changeless. It is the Self.
Mata Amritanandamayi
#92. If your mind is still ... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.
Eckhart Tolle
#93. The West is concentration of the mind: the East is meditation of the mind. The West is thinking: the East is non-thinking. The West is mind: the East is no-mind.
Rajneesh
#95. Meditation is about seeing clearly the body that we have, the mind that we have, the domestic situation that we have, the job that we have, and the people who are in our lives.
Pema Chodron
#96. Prayer is the peace of our spirit, the stillness of our thoughts, the evenness of recollection, the seat of meditation, the rest of our cares and the calm of our tempest; prayer is the issue of a quiet mind, of untroubled thoughts, it is the daughter of charity, and the sister of meekness.
Jeremy Taylor
#97. Have little,
Need less:
This is the way
To inner peace.
Surrender is a journey
From the outer turmoil
To the inner peace.
Peace
Is in inner awakening,
And this inner awakening
We must share
With the rest of the world.
Sri Chinmoy
#98. The mind and the spirit can be detached from the physical body in deep meditation. Once the mind and spirit get detached from the physical body, the inner process of life becomes clear to you.
Roshan Sharma
#99. Attention on the breathe, is the best tool, to take of your attention from negative thoughts or negative imagination of mind.
Roshan Sharma
#100. Without meditation, and without a relationship to your mind, you fail to use the power of the mind. You fail to rely on your self. You complicate your approach. You do not use the beautiful designs given to you by birthright in this body, that link the effectiveness of body, mind, soul and you.
Harbhajan Singh Yogi
