142 Meditation Quotes to share with friends and relatives

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind. – Swami Muktananda

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligenceâ€”which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Meditation is the breath of your soul. Just as breathing is the life of the body, meditation is the life of the soul. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Meditation has no goal. We should not have any aim, goal, or desire for having any gains through meditation. It should be playful and natural. – Author Unknown

Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel. – Bahya ibn Paquda

When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

In meditation we witness our thoughts without any judgment. – Author Unknown

Meditation is a tool to shake yourself awake. A way to discover what you love. A practice to return yourself to your body when the mind medleys threaten to usurp your sanity. – Geneen Roth

Why do we meditate? We meditate precisely because this world of ours has disappointed us and because failure looms large in our day-to-day life. We want fulfillment. We want joy, peace, bliss and perfection within and without. Meditation is the answer, the only answer. – Sri Chinmoy

Meditation has to be a part of our every activity. Its not sufficient to meditate for one hour and be unaware for twenty-three hours. It must become the inner thread of all our actions. – Author Unknown

The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate. – Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne, 1796

Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery. Like the moon, come out from behind the clouds! Shine. – Buddha

Those who eat too much or eat too little, who sleep too much or sleep too little, will not succeed in meditation. But those who are temperate in eating and sleeping, work and recreation, will come to the end of sorrow through meditation. – Bhagavad Gita

Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. – Bhagavad Gita

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. – Buddha

This…is the surer, safer, saner way of meditation. For, when the mind is absent from the body it is present with thy Lord, thy purposes, thy hopes. – Edgar Cayce

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. – Eknath Easwaran

Nature has come to a point where now, unless you take individual responsibility, you cannot grow. More than this nature cannot do. It has done enough. It has given you life, it has given you opportunity; now how to use it, it has left up to you.
Meditation is your freedom…
– Osho [Chandra Mohan Jain]

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil. – Patanjali

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose – a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye. – Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley