Meditation Quotes

“The Way to do is to be.”
― Lao Tzu

“Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single disturbed thought
Creates ten thousand distractions.”
― Ryokan

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”
― Voltaire

“We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“Exercises are like prose, whereas yoga is the poetry of movements.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.”
― Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life

“Yoga is not just repetation of few postures - it is more about the exploration and discovery of the subtle energies of life.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“When you touch the celestial in your heart, you will realize that the beauty of your soul is so pure, so vast and so devastating that you have no option but to merge with it. You have no option but to feel the rhythm of the universe in the rhythm of your heart.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“Courage is the hallmark of spirituality. Courage comes when you love yourself for who you are.”
― Amit Ray

“Spirituality does not lie in meditating the body of an ex-master. Spirituality exists in mediating on your own inner body.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style

“Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.”
― Amit Ray

“Meditation means stirring the pool of the lame ducks in our minds and removing the slurry in the stagnant water of our thoughts.( "Waiting for the pieces to fall into place",)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.”
― Ramana Maharshi, The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi

“When we are mired in the relative world, never lifting our gaze to the mystery, our life is stunted, incomplete; we are filled with yearning for that paradise that is lost when, as young children, we replace it with words and ideas and abstractions - such as merit, such as past, present, and future - our direct, spontaneous experience of the thing itself, in the beauty and precision of this present moment.”
― Peter Matthiessen

“Meditation allows us to free ourselves from burdensome habits, drop the harassing weightiness of our snakeskin, and transform our life into a land of infinite wisdom. (“The rabbit hole of Meditation”)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“If we treasure meditation and don’t mind being taken off guard at every bend of our life, we can experience all privileged moments like sparks springing from the intangible fairyland of our mind’s eye. (“The rabbit hole of Meditation”)”
― Erik Pevernagie, The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

“Meditation is cleaning up clutter in the backyard of our mind, triggering a shift in our thinking, and reshaping a drained logic in our mental network, giving voice to fresh concepts and new emotions. (The rabbit hole of Meditation)”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Meditation lets us become humble and free ourselves from the cumbersome dead weight of self-opinion. Insight and gratefulness are significant footholds in life. The insight that sets out the path we must walk and gratefulness that lets us discover the precious jewels of the encounters throughout our journey in the rabbit hole of our minds. (“The rabbit hole of Meditation”)”
― Erik Pevernagie, The rabbit hole of Meditation: The author’s reflections selected and illustrated by his readers

“Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.”
― Amit Ray

“Meditation is the process of transformation and beautification of soul from a leaf-eating caterpillar to a nectar-sipping butterfly. It grows with the wings of love and compassion.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“when somebody plays music, you listen. you just follow those sounds, and eventually you understand the music. the point can't be explained in words because music is not words, but after listening for a while, you understand the point of it, and that point is the music itself. in exactly the same way, you can listen to all experiences.”
― Alan Wilson Watts, Still the Mind: An Introduction to Meditation

“Without suffering, there's no happiness. So we shouldn't discriminate against the mud. We have to learn how to embrace and cradle our own suffering and the suffering of the world, with a lot of tenderness.”
― Thích Nhất Hạnh, No Mud, No Lotus: The Art of Transforming Suffering

“Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“The word 'innocence' means a mind that is incapable of being hurt.”
― J.Krishnamurti

“If you can sit with your pain, listen to your pain and respect your pain — in time you will move through your pain.”
― Bryant McGill, Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life

“Meditation on inevitable death should be performed daily. Every day when one’s body and mind are at peace, one should meditate upon being ripped apart by arrows, rifles, spears and swords, being carried away by surging waves, being thrown into the midst of a great fire, being struck by lightning, being shaken to death by a great earthquake, falling from thousand-foot cliffs, dying of disease or committing seppuku at the death of one’s master. And every day without fail one should consider himself as dead”
― Yamamoto Tsunetomo

“It is of great importance, when we begin to practise prayer, not to let ourselves be frightened by our own thoughts.”
― Santa Teresa de Jesús, The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila by Herself

“Penetrate deep into the word "Om". Gradually the word will disappear and only the silence will remain. The word is a support. The meaning is within you. Om brings out that meaning which is hidden in your soul.”
― Amit Ray, Om Chanting and Meditation

“There are two types of empathy: the positive empathy and the negative empathy. When we are fully carried away by the unaware activities of the mirror neurons, we are under the trap of negative empathy. The negative empathy generates attachments. Out of these attachments suffering follows. Negative empathy is a kind of reaction to a situation, whereas positive empathy is internal response of peace love and tranquility.... In positive empathy, your deep tranquility, joy and peace activates the mirror neurons of the others, whereas in negative empathy your mirror neurons are activated by the disturbance of others.”
― Amit Ray, Yoga and Vipassana: An Integrated Life Style