Meditation Quotes

"Reading is a form of prayer, a guided meditation that briefly makes us believe we’re someone else."

- George Saunders

"When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."

- Alan Watts

"The art of meditation is a way of getting into touch with reality, and the reason for it is that most civilized people are out of touch with reality because they confuse the world as it with the world as they think about it and talk about it and describe it. For on the one hand there is the real world and on the other there is a whole system of symbols about that world which we have in our minds. These are very very useful symbols, all civilization depends on them, but like all good things they have their disadvantages, and the principle disadvantage of symbols is that we confuse them with reality, just as we confuse money with actual wealth."

- Alan Wilson Watts

"The Prophet Muhammad (s) said: 'When He opens for you a way of getting to know Him, do not mind if the quantity of your actions lessen in its presence.'"

- Al Hikam of Ibn Ata Allah

"When meditation is mastered, The mind is unwavering like the Flame of a lamp in a windless place. In the still mind, In the depths of meditation, The Self reveals itself. Beholding the Self By means of the Self, An aspirant knows the Joy and peace of complete fulfillment. Having attained that Abiding joy beyond the senses, Revealed in the stilled mind, He never swerves from the eternal truth."

- Bhagavad Gita

"For me, to enter into motion is to enter into meditation."

- Maurice Béjart

"The first requirement for prayer is silence. People of prayer are people of silence."

- Mother Teresa

"Exercise is like meditation for me. And I'm giving myself that time. I cannot live without it now. When you have such a good workout, it clears everything up mentally, physically, and you just have a better day."

- Minka Kelly

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine."

- Gautama Buddha

"Meditate. Do not delay, lest you later regret it."

- Buddha

"Let the breath lead the way."

- Sharon Salzberg

"Meditate… do not delay, lest you later regret it."

- Buddha

"Delight in meditation and solitude. Compose yourself, be happy. You are a seeker."

- Buddha

"Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine"

- Buddha

"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

"Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom."

- Buddha

"If you meditate earnestly, pure in mind and kind in deeds, leading a disciplined life in harmony with the dharma, you will grow in glory. If you meditate earnestly, through spiritual disciplines you can make an island for yourself that no flood can overwhelm."

- Buddha

"A jigsaw puzzle is my form of meditation. In New York, I glued all of the ones I did together and hung them up on the wall."

- Carly Chaikin

"Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting."

- Jack Kornfield

"Dedicating some time to meditation is a meaningful expression of caring for yourself that can help you move through the mire of feeling unworthy of recovery. As your mind grows quieter and more spacious, you can begin to see self-defeating thought patterns for what they are, and open up to other, more positive options."

- Sharon Salzberg

"True meditation is letting go of manipulating our experience."

- Adyashanti

"When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place."

"In the still mind, in the depths of meditation, the Self reveals itself."

"Take some deep breaths and recenter yourself this afternoon."

"The sky is a reminder that we are all capable of meditation."

"Sleep is the best meditation. Good night!"