Meditation can feel tedious at times. Meditation is a great way to reduce stress and increase inner peace. Yet, we often put it off. We often need a gentle reminder to get us started. Reading an inspiring quote about meditation is a great way to do this. Some inspirational quotes will help you find time to meditate, be mindful, and reflect.
Inspiring meditation quotes
Meditation is not about trying. To throw ourselves out and become something else. We need to befriend who we already are. Pema Chôdron
Meditation means being aware of all thoughts and feelings. Never say something wrong or right, but watch and follow it. You begin to see the entire movement of thoughts and feelings when you watch. Out of this awareness, silence comes. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Meditating regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, will make significant gains, allowing you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prison in miniature. Ram Dassyoga students do yoga haphazardly perform their exercises, then wonder why they do not ‘get anywhere. They fail to feel communion with the Infinite even after serious meditation. Paramahansa Yogananda
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms. Thich Nhat Hanh
Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage, we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either. Eknath Easwaran
Those who have succeeded in attaching or detaching their minds at will have succeeded in pratyahara, which means “gathering towards,” Checking the outgoing powers of the mind, freeing it from the thralldom of the senses. When we can do this, we shall possess character; alone, we shall have taken a long step towards freedom. Before that, we are mere machines. Swami Vivekananda
Your concentration must come as easily as your breath. Fix yourself on one thing and try to hold onto it. All will come right. Meditation is sticking to one thought. That single thought keeps away other thoughts. The dissipated mind is a sign of its weakness. Through constant meditation, it gains strength. Ramana Maharishi
Meditation is not about trying to achieve some sort of ideal. The opposite is true. Whatever it is, we’re just being ourselves. Pema Chôdron
With every breath, the old moment is lost; a new moment arrives. We exhale, and we let go of the old moment. It is lost to us. In doing so, we let go of the person we used to be. We inhale and breathe at the moment that is becoming. In doing so, we welcome the person we are becoming. We repeat the process. This is meditation. This is renewal. This is life.
Lama Surya Das
Meditation is not pursuing an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, and attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day. Jiddu Krishnamurti
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 that, the natural (real) state.”
Ramana Maharshi
When we are mindful and deeply in touch with the present moment, our understanding of what is going on deepens, and we begin to be filled with acceptance, joy, peace, and love. Thich Nhat Hanh
First, meditation should be negative. Think away everything. Analyze everything that comes into the mind by the sheer action of the will. Next, assert what we are—existence, knowledge, bliss-being, knowing, and loving. Swami Vivekananda
When we dance, the journey itself is the point; when we play music, the playing itself is the point. And 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
Meditation speaks. Meditation speaks. It speaks in silence. It shows the aspirant how matter and spirit are the same, that quantity and quality are the same, and that the inherent is the same as the transcendent. It shows that life is not the simple existence of 70 or 80 years between birth and death but Eternity. Sri Chinmoy
O yogi! If by one or two divings into the ocean of divine perception, you do not find the pearls of God-communion, do not blame the ocean as lacking in the Divine Presence! Rather find fault with your skill in diving! Again and again, sink into the ocean of meditation and seize the pearls of blessed communion! Paramahansa Yogananda
We carry the burden of what thousands have said and the memories of all our misfortunes. To abandon all that is to be alone, and the mind that is alone is not only innocent but young—not in time or age, but young, innocent, alive at whatever age—and only such a mind can see that which is truth and that which is not measurable by words. Jiddu Krishnamurti
Real attainment is to be fully conscious, aware of surroundings and the people around, and move among them all, but not to merge consciousness in the environment. One should remain in inner independent awareness. Ramana Maharishi