Meditation Quotes Quotes & Sayings

Fools only crib about what they do not have. They do not count their blessings. — Radhe Maa

Sometimes you just have to turn off the lights, sit in the dark, and see what happens inside of you. — Adam Oakley

Discover your deep inner-self and from that place spread love in every direction. — Amit Ray

We can use meditation as a way to experiment with new ways of relating to ourselves, even our uncomfortable thoughts. — Sharon Salzberg

By accepting and learning to embrace the inevitable sorrows of life, we realize that we can experience a more enduring sense of happiness. — Sharon Salzberg

Love is the process of melting into the other — Radhe Maa

Whilst your memory is as sharp as the most reliable computer, it is always wiser to write things down. Pre-meditation helps the refining process, taking out the undesirable elements from a dream or vision, even mounting the courage to face and overcome challenges before they appear in reality. — Archibald Marwizi

When our focus is on seeking, perfecting, or clinging to romance, the charge is often generated by instability, rather than by an authentic connection with another person. — Sharon Salzberg

Upon entering into the divine domain of transcendence, all these religious founders truly felt that they had accessed the true meaning of the universe, while in reality, what they had access to, in that state of mind, was their inner self. — Abhijit Naskar

We need to maintain an awareness of our awareness, of what we are paying attention to, in order to discriminate between higher and lower forms of love. — Paul O'Brien

In reality, love is fluid; it's a verb, not a noun. — Sharon Salzberg

Life is like playing a guitar and meditation is like music. Small session of rehearsals daily won't show much but would make you ROCK in the long run. — Vikrmn

To enhance your inner beauty, harmonize your mind and thoughts with nature through meditation. — Debasish Mridha

Love is a living capacity within us that is always present, even when we don't sense it. — Sharon Salzberg

Everything is possible through complete devotion to the Lord. — Radhe Maa

Wholehearted acceptance is a basic element of love, starting with love for ourselves, and a gateway to joy. Through the practices of loving kindness and self-compassion, we can learn to love our flawed and imperfect selves. And in those moments of vulnerability, we open our hearts to connect with each other, as well. We are not perfect, but we are enough. — Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is a wonderful way to shout down the outer noise so that you may pay attention to the universal inner message. — Debasish Mridha

If you won't improve yourself, who will? — Radhe Maa

Use meditation and blissful perceptions to create inner peace and world peace. — Debasish Mridha

Praise the one who speaks ill of you. Before long he will become a friend — Radhe Maa

It is important to reignite our compassion for others because without it we will be lost in the sea of suffering — Radhe Maa

Ah, yes, choice. I chose to let my ghosts stay in past. Past is history you know. Living is now. I sat. I breathed. I let past go. I let future go. I am. That is all. — Natalie Wright

Have love for your inner Self and everything else is done for you. — Amit Ray

The true value of a gift is the sentiment behind the gifting. — Radhe Maa

Keeping secrets is a consequential act for all involved. — Sharon Salzberg

To forgive, we may need to open our minds to a fuller exploration of the context in which the events occurred, and feel compassion for the circumstances and everyone involved, starting with ourselves. — Sharon Salzberg

When we learn to respond to disappointments with acceptance, we give ourselves the space to realize that all our experiences - good and bad alike - are opportunities to learn and grow. — Sharon Salzberg

Think, how hard it is to change yourself. How can it be easy to change others? — Radhe Maa

Though it may sound paradoxical, identifying our thoughts, emotions, and habitual patterns of behavior is the key to freedom & transformation. — Sharon Salzberg

Water and grace flow to persons and places that are lower. — Radhe Maa

Equanimity can be hard to talk about. — Sharon Salzberg

As human beings, we're capable of greatness of spirit, an ability to go beyond the circumstances we find ourselves in, to experience a vast sense of connection to all of life. — Sharon Salzberg

If you wish to enjoy a position, find ways of being useful, hard working and cooperative with the people whose favour has given you the position — Radhe Maa

When we direct a lot of hostile energy toward the inner critic, we enter into a losing battle. — Sharon Salzberg

Loving ourselves calls us to give up the illusion that we can control everything and focuses us on building our inner resource of resilience. — Sharon Salzberg

Unless you are silent, you will not
know your urgent heart, how it beats
between the thin skin of yes and no. — Drew Myron

Once you enhance your inner vision with deep meditation, you may be able to see your inner beauty and inner universe. — Debasish Mridha

Surgery can help to remove a damaged organ but only meditation and quiet time can remove emotions like anger and fear to calm and soothe a disturbed mind — Teresa Spelman

Waiting for anyone is a cause for a tremendously bad life ahead. When the electricity is gone and you wait for it, that is considered as artadhyan (mournful meditation). Twenty years worth of effort gets washed away in waiting for half an hour. In such situations, you simply have to take an adjustment. — Dada Bhagwan

Live every day as if it is a festival. Turn your life into a celebration — Radhe Maa

Harmony can be achieved within through meditation, which increases overall well-being and function. — Jay Woodman

God gives us opportunity to serve him by serving humanity. — Radhe Maa

When we are willing to explore our own experiences, we open the doorway to deeper connection and intimacy. — Sharon Salzberg

Meditation creates harmony in the midst of chaos in my inner world and outer reality. — Debasish Mridha

By practicing compassion and forgiveness, one can control hatred. — Radhe Maa

Love does not expect anything in return — Radhe Maa

Sanskrit has different words to describe love for a brother or sister, love for a teacher, love for a partner, love for one's friends, love of nature, and so on. English has only one word, which leads to never-ending confusion. — Sharon Salzberg

Although much of the work we do in committed relationships we do with our partners, sometimes it's necessary to start with ourselves. — Sharon Salzberg

You can't control the universe, but if you learn to practice meditation and mindfulness you may be able to control yourself. — Debasish Mridha

The environment we create can help heal us or fracture us. This is true not just for buildings and landscapes but also for interactions and relationships. — Sharon Salzberg

As soon as we ask whether or not a story is true in the present moment, we empower ourselves to re-frame it. — Sharon Salzberg

Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you. — Amit Ray

It's a rare gift to be appreciated by even one person. In life, the majority may not ever notice you. Know You're still relevant. You're always great. There will always be countless varieties of energies on earth. Not just anyone- Nor will everyone see or hear the other, so its not at all personal. Nor is it even necessary for the majority to see you. Find time to appreciate and see yourself. Inside you will find your strength. It's in there. Stay true, Stay encouraged! If one person can make it then so can you. Oneness is what you are. If one gets there we all do. Say it again and again! Let the words echo throughout your being. Stay true to your dreams. — Sereda Aleta Dailey

In the same way a cluttered room becomes difficult to walk, a cluttered mind becomes difficult to think. Meditation is simply a daily housekeeping practice; therefore, put the thoughts away where they belong, take out the unwanted clutter, and relax in the space you created. — Jenna Alatari

with each measured step,
we know
this earth is only as solid
as we are. — Sheniz Janmohamed

Do not desire a long life or an early death — Radhe Maa

Humility is more powerful than egoistic pride. Water is more powerful than the strongest cliff and Love is more powerful than might. — Radhe Maa

Causing harm is never just a one-way street. — Sharon Salzberg

To live without an aim is to wander in a wilderness. — Radhe Maa

Whether we fear the existence of boundaries with others or crave more of them, there's no denying that individuation and separation are inevitable parts of loving relationships that become the site of tension. — Sharon Salzberg

Never feel ashamed of your longing for happiness. — Sharon Salzberg

In order to know the Truth, you have to be out of your mind. — Vivian Amis

There are an incalculable - even infinite - number of situations in which we can practice forgiveness.

Expecting it to be a singular action - motivated by the sheer imperative to move on and forget - can be more damaging than the original feelings of anger.

Accepting forgiveness as pluralistic and as an ongoing, individualized process opens us up to realize the role that our own needs play in conflict resolution. — Sharon Salzberg

If we harm someone else, we're inevitably also hurting ourselves. Some quality of sensitivity and awareness has to shut down for us to be able to objectify someone else, to deny them as a living, feeling being - someone who wants to be happy, just as we do. — Sharon Salzberg

When we identify the thoughts that keep us from seeing others as they truly are we prepare the ground for real love. — Sharon Salzberg

Clinging to our ideas of perfection isolates us from life and is a barrier. — Sharon Salzberg

Our minds tend to race ahead into the future or replay the past, but our bodies are always in the present moment. — Sharon Salzberg

God and devotee are bound for ever in ropes of love — Radhe Maa

The good news is that you are never alone. If you are a man, you are always with your inner feminine side. If you are a woman, you are ways with your inner masculine side. However, we are often disconnected from those inner feminine or masculine qualities. Meditation helps to establish that much needed dialog and connection with your inner self. The more we get in touch with our inner self, the more we experience peace, harmony and bliss. — Vishwas Chavan

You're only as weak as you let yourself become, and you're only as strong as you allow yourself to be. — Daniel Hansen

The journey to loving ourselves doesn't mean we like everything. — Sharon Salzberg

There is no pain and there are no sorrows. They no longer have permission to live in my today or my tomorrow. — Steven Cuoco

Meditation = Strength
Prayer = Power — Matshona Dhliwayo

A key barometer to help us weigh the rightness of our actions is self-respect. — Sharon Salzberg

To live in a peaceful home is to experience paradise on earth — Radhe Maa

Love is not a verb. Love is a noun. Love's activity is people breathing, cells dividing, a dove taking a flight.
This grammar of life not all can see. — Mohit Parikh

Through meditation we can channel outer energy to create inner calmness and peace. — Debasish Mridha

There's no denying that it takes effort to set the intention to see our fundamental connected-ness with others. — Sharon Salzberg

Live a virtuous life, help everyone and spread joy wherever you go. — Radhe Maa

A true religious person should not think that "my religion alone is the right path and other religions are false." Other religions are also so many paths leading to the same domain of transcendental bliss. — Abhijit Naskar

When we do our best to treat others with kindness, it's often a struggle to determine which actions best express our love and care for ourselves. — Sharon Salzberg

Respect those elder to you in years, in knowledge and spiritual attainment and act with love and compassion with those who are younger or less fortunate than you. — Radhe Maa

Saints love all beings. They love even those who attempt to harm them. — Radhe Maa

Fall in love with all knowing manifestations of one. You may find those connections between you and all through yoga and meditation. — Debasish Mridha

The wholesome pursuit of excellence feels quite different from perfectionism. — Sharon Salzberg

Through the practice of meditation, when the mind is quieted and the emotions are calmed, the Soul shines forth in all of its glory. — Genevieve Gerard

Real Love may run on a lower voltage, but it's also more grounded & sustainable. — Sharon Salzberg

When we truly allow ourselves to feel our own pain, over time it comes to seem less personal. We start to recognize that what we've perceived as our pain is, at a deeper level, the pain inherent in human existence. — Sharon Salzberg

Paying attention to the ethical implications of our choices has never been more pressing - or more complicated - than it is today. — Sharon Salzberg

The tongue never rests. It speaks even when we sleep. It speaks through the mind even when the mouth keeps shut — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Consider how blessed you are to have the things you do in life. — Radhe Maa

Meditation can be a refuge, but it is not a practice in which real life is ever excluded. The strength of mindfulness is that it enables us to hold difficult thoughts and feelings in a different way - with awareness, balance, and love — Sharon Salzberg

Do not gossip about monks and speak ill of spiritual teachers — Radhe Maa

Learning to treat ourselves lovingly may at first feel like a dangerous experiment. — Sharon Salzberg

You know you possess the soul of an artist when, each time you sit down to create, the whole universe lays itself at your feet. — Eric Micha'el Leventhal

We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take. — Raphael Zernoff

Rebuilding relationship requires a lifelong discipline and commitment. — Sri Amma Bhagwan.

The costs of keeping secrets include our growing isolation due to fear of detection and the ways we shut down inside to avoid feeling the effects of our behavior. We can never afford to be truly seen and known - even by ourselves. — Sharon Salzberg

The greatest luxury of life is peaceful breathing because it repairs the wounds of the cosmic soul. — Amit Ray

Daily mediation is a healthy spiritual exercise. — Lailah Gifty Akita