Top 160 Todd Perelmuter Quotes (2026 Update)
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101. “Being present means paying more attention to what you’re seeing, noticing how the light changes in the way it reflects off objects throughout the day, notice the way every little thing feels in your fingertips.”

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102. “The true source of our life is our consciousness and awareness, without which we’d just be a robot or a computer with no operator.”

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103. “So many times we’re focused on something negative happening that we don’t even see what’s going on around us. Either we’re absorbed in the past or in some imagined future that we don’t even notice there might be a rainbow right in front of us.”

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104. “Fear is an insidious little monster. It’s a train of thoughts that doesn’t announce itself as fear. It pretends to be rational and cautious, but in excess, it’s a cancer that diminishes our life’s potential. It won’t scream “I’m fear,” but it will weigh on your shoulders as doubt, insecurity, excess consumption, stress and dis-ease. So, instead of running away from fear, let’s turn, look and face fear so that we can recognize it for what it is and let it go.”

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105. “Meditation is not about the time you’re sitting down with your eyes closed. It’s about how that time impacts the rest of your day and the rest of your life. Meditation isn’t just for sitting either. Every single moment of our lives can be a meditation.”

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106. “We’ve all been everybody and we’ll all be everybody. The same life-force energy that animated the first single-celled organism, pumps through you and me. In an unbroken chain. All life is connected and one.”

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107. “Do not despair over your struggles, for you are blessed with the strength to lift others up.”

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108. “When you see others, see their light. See their energizing, animating energy. You can do this. See what it is that makes this person different than if you were looking at their lifeless corps. See your inner light in them.”

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109. “Make every activity in your life a meditation practice by being fully present in whatever you’re doing because that’s what meditation is.”

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110. “Understanding impermanence is about enjoying the good times while they’re here, but knowing they won’t last. Then when the bad times come, we’re OK too because we know they won’t last either and good times are always just around the corner.”

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111. “So much of what people get obsessed about and go crazy over is just not important, not necessary.”

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112. “Once you become aware of all the tactics your mind is using to sabotage your peace and happiness, you can use your conscious mind to reframe your opinions, create new more positive beliefs, and create a new you.”

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113. “We are that light of consciousness and it’s the same light that’s in you and me and everyone else.”

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114. “To experience every situation as new and miraculous, you have to focus on your senses instead of focusing on the sense objects.”

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115. “When we are just in the moment, there are no doubts, there are no worries, and there’s no room for anxiety.”

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116. “The road to peace lies inside.”

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117. “The answers lie in the questions.”

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118. “We all have an infinite wellspring of love and healing within us just waiting to be tapped into.”

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119. “Every single thing about you will change. Your tastes, opinions, thoughts and preferences will change. Your body will become frail. Your sense may fade. But, the light of consciousness within you will never change, will never flicker, and will never dim. This is the eternal you.”

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120. “To truly change the way we approach love, we have to go to the source of everything we do: our minds.”

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121. “Mindfulness is really about becoming aware of awareness itself and when we do this we identify more with the observer inside us and we identify less with the thoughts in our head.”

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122. “It’s not easy to meditate when you’ve spent decades constantly thinking, constantly doing, constantly being entertained, and constantly buried in work or pleasure. But that is why we must use this moment right here, right now, to undo that habit of compulsively looking for what’s next, seeking pleasure, and avoiding pain. And start training our minds to be present and at peace in everything we do.”

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123. “The start of acceptance is really the start of looking closely at what we don’t want to see, what we don’t like, and have a hard time accepting; because that’s the part that needs to be accepted. So look in those dark corners and shine there so brightly with love and self-love until there are no more dark corners left.”

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124. “So much suffering comes because we believe that our thoughts are who we are. So the more we become mindful of our thoughts, the more we can just witness without attachment and identification, making our suffering disappear.”

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125. “Never forget that every moment is a miracle. The goal of spirituality is to never forget that.”

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126. “We don’t see the world how it is. We see the world how we are.”

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127. “There is no beginning and there is no end. When was time born? When will time die? Why would we even think of beginnings and endings? There is only change. We grow from the soil and we will return to it as food for the future.”

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128. “We almost fail to see the blessings we have and we focus solely on what someone else has that we don’t have.”

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129. “You do not know that which you cannot perceive.”

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130. “Pain may exist in the body, but all suffering exists in the mind. No matter what happens to you, no matter how terrible, there can be peace.”

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131. “Do you think there are smartphones in the afterlife? Because if not, lots of people are going to be very miserable in heaven.”

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132. “The more you allow your mind to be present without being bombarded with thoughts, opinions and judgments, the more peace and spaciousness you’re going to feel in your life.”

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133. “Isn’t it funny we talk about mind control but we can’t even control our own mind?”

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134. “The universe is unfolding in the only way it possibly can, sometimes maybe not as we desire but always in a way we can accept and learn from and grow from.”

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135. “The heightened awareness that comes from mindfulness can really increase our enjoyment of everything.”

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136. “Some people think meditation is a passive state where you’re just resting, but in fact you’re at a heightened level of focus, heightened level of attention, heightened level of awareness, and this state is a truly zen state of bliss.”

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137. “The first step to changing our likes and dislikes starts with becoming aware of the fact that you can choose them.”

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138. “We suffer because we crave things we don’t have and we resist things that we don’t want.”

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139. “Anything in the now is so much richer than anything that our minds are imagining and creating.”

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140. “Names are useful in that they help you know who someone’s talking to but they can also be a deception because the truth is we’re all just the same. We’re all one.”

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141. “To tap into that infinite source of beauty and amazement, all you have to do is close your eyes, turn your attention inward and breathe.”

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142. “We get attached to certain people and forms and things and situations. The truth is, nothing lasts. Things will always change. There is nothing we forget more than this.”

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143. “In the present moment, all our obsession with every little thing stops because most of what we obsess about happened in the past or something we’re worried about happening in the future.”

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144. “Anxiety can often make us closed off to the world. Taking risks and putting yourself out there can become an insurmountable obstacle. Letting go of our anxiety doesn’t just improve our life. It improves the lives of those around us as well.”

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145. “The number one rule of meditation is to get rid of expectations. Toss them out the door as you don’t need them.”

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146. “Everyone is trying to be some idealized version that’s mostly created by Hollywood or put out by the fashion industry and amplified by social media. But it’s not healthy to be constantly inundated by all of these images and comparing ourselves to the most beautiful person on the planet. Accept yourself for who you are and be confident in who you are and that you are the miracle of life itself.”

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147. “If the desire to change is coming from a place of growth, it’s fantastic. But if it’s coming from a place of boredom and impatience, then it’s time to practice mindfulness to find that newness again.”

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148. “There can be no success without difficulty because otherwise everyone would be equally successful and it wouldn’t be called success. There must be the challenge, the discipline, the fortitude that is only developed and forged in fire.”

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149. “Solitude is nothing to fear and it shouldn’t be a motivating factor to find love because if it is, it will set the relationship up to be a co-dependent relationship.”

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150. “At the current state of human evolution, we judge others based on their appearance. Until we learn to love all beings deep down, we will continue hating certain beings. There is only love in oneness.”

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