Top 100 Meditation Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “Your mind is a powerful thing. When you filter it with positive thoughts, your life will start to change.”

— Buddha

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2. “Meditation makes you sharper, happier, and intuitive. Don’t you want intuition? Don’t you want the right thought to come to you at the right time?”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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3. “In the beginning you may find meditation very boring, but later on you will find it so addictive. You will start enjoying it so much.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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4. “Meditation takes us from survival to creation; from separation to connection; from imbalance to balance; from emergency mode to growth-and-repair mode; and from the limiting emotions of fear, anger, and sadness to the expansive emotions of joy, freedom, and love.”

— Joe Dispenza

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5. “In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam – it is very powerful and healing can happen.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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6. “When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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7. “You begin by letting thoughts flow and watching them. The very observation slows down the mind till it stops altogether. Once the mind is quiet, keep it quiet. Don’t get bored with peace, be in it, go deeper into it.”

— Nisargadatta Maharaj

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8. “Be – don’t try to become.”

— Osho

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9. “Sleep is the best meditation.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

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10. “A jug fills drop by drop.”

— Buddha

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11. “My meditation is simple. It does not require any complex practices. It is simple. It is singing. It is dancing. It is sitting silently.”

— Osho

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12. “In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.”

— Deepak Chopra

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13. “In the space of no-mind, truth descends like light.”

— Osho

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14. “The power of now can only be realized now. It requires no time and effort. Effort means you’re trying hard to get somewhere, and so you are not present, welcoming this moment as it is.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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15. “What does meditation and spiritual practices do? They bring out the four ’I’s in you: Innovation, Intuition, Inspiration and Intelligence.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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16. “Awareness of the inner body is consciousness remembering its origin and returning to the Source.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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17. “Stop. Take 3 deep breaths and smile everywhere in your body, observing what’s happening in your body. Proceed now with kindness and understanding.”

— Deepak Chopra

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18. “The mind has to be empty to see clearly.”

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

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19. “To cultivate equanimity we practice catching ourselves when we feel attraction or aversion, before it hardens into grasping or negativity.”

— Pema Chödrön

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20. “Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don’t try to figure anything out. Don’t try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.”

— Tilopa

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21. “Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.”

— Nhat Hanh

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22. “Silence is truth. Silence is bliss. Silence is peace. And hence Silence is the Self.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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23. “Meditation more than anything in my life was the biggest ingredient of whatever success I’ve had.”

— Ray Dalio

24. “When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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25. “The thing to do is to concentrate on the seer and not on the seen, not on the objects, but on the Light which reveals them.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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26. “If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.”

— S. N. Goenka

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27. “The inquiry “who am I” turns the mind inward and makes it calm.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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28. “A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.”

— Deepak Chopra

29. “Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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30. “You and I are the same. What I have done is surely possible for all. You are the Self now and can never be anything else. Throw your worries to the wind, turn within and find Peace.”

— Ramana Maharshi

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31. “Work for God, love God alone, and be wise with God. When an ordinary man puts the necessary time and enthusiasm into meditation and prayer, he becomes a divine man.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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32. “Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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33. “Meditation is the journey from sound to silence, from movement to stillness, from a limited identity to unlimited space.”

— Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

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34. “Stillness is the altar of spirit.”

— Paramahansa Yogananda

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35. “Letting go a little brings a little peace. Letting go a lot brings a lot of peace. Letting go completely brings complete peace.”

— Ajahn Chah

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36. “Transcendental Meditation opens the awareness to the infinite reservoir of energy, creativity, and intelligence that lies deep within everyone.”

— Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

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37. “As gold purified in a furnace loses its impurities and achieves its own true nature, the mind gets rid of the impurities of the attributes of delusion, attachment and purity through meditation and attains Reality.”

— Adi Shankara

38. “It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.”

— Jon Kabat-Zinn

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39. “Live in Joy, In love, Even among those who hate. Live in joy, In health, Even among the afflicted. Live in joy, In peace, Even among the troubled. Look within. Be still. Free from fear and attachment, Know the sweet joy of living in the way.”

— Buddha

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40. “You need no time to open yourself to the power of now and so awaken to who you are beyond name and form and realize that in the depth of your being, you are already complete, whole, one with the timeless essence of all life.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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41. “One conscious breath in and out is a meditation.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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42. “When you transform your mind, everything you experience is transformed.”

— Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche

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43. “Breathing in, there is only the present moment. Breathing out, it is a wonderful moment.”

— Thich Nhat Hanh

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44. “No thought, no mind, no choice – just being silent, rooted in yourself.”

— Osho

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45. “For real happiness, for real lasting stable happiness, one has to make a journey deep within oneself and see that one gets rid of all the unhappiness and misery stored in the deeper levels of the mind.”

— S. N. Goenka

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46. “Become intensely conscious of the present moment.”

— Eckhart Tolle

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47. “Life is available only in the present moment.”

— Nhat Hanh

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48. “Real meditation is not about mastering a technique; it’s about letting go of control.”

— Adyashanti

49. “The beginner’s mind is the mind of compassion. When our mind is compassionate, it is boundless.”

— Shunryu Suzuki

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50. “When sitting in meditation, say, “That’s not my business!” with every thought that comes by.”

— Ajahn Chah

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