“Better than a thousand hollow words, is one word that brings peace.” (Buddha)


 “Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.” (Buddha)


 “You will always be getting praise and blame, but do not let either affect the poise of the mind.” (Buddha)


 “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky.” (Buddha)


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


“All know the Way, but few actually walk it.” (Buddha)


“If we could see the miracle of a single flower clearly, our whole life would change.” (Buddha)


 “The mind is the source of happiness and unhappiness.” (Buddha)


“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There’s only one moment for you to live.” (Buddha)


 “If you are quiet enough, you will hear the flow of the universe. You will feel its rhythm. Go with this flow. Happiness lies ahead. Meditation is key.” (Buddha)


 “Knowing others is wisdom, knowing yourself is Enlightenment.” (Lao Tzu)


 “Peace comes from within.” (Buddha)


 “Happiness is a journey, not a destination.” (Buddha)


 “The way is not in the sky. The Way is in the heart.” (Buddha)


 “You only lose what you cling to.” (Buddha)


“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.” (Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati)


“The quieter you become the more you can hear.” (Unknown author)


“Sleep is the best meditation.” (Dalai Lama)


“Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.” (Baba Ram Dass)


“Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.” (Amit Ray)


“Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.” (Deepak Chopra)


“The body benefits from movement, and the mind benefits from stillness.” (Sakyong Mipham)


 “Meditation can reintroduce you to the part that’s been missing” (Russell Simmons)


 “Meditation is medicine to quiet the chaotic mind, and it allows us to listen to the wisdom of our souls.” (Dr. Romie)


“Meditation is absolute comfort and getting back to the serenity which is your original nature.” (Sri Sri)


“Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.” (Sr. Francis de Sales)


 “You don’t always need a plan. Sometimes you just need to breathe, trust, let go, and see what happens.” (Unknown author)


 “Those who have destroyed the roots of jealousy have peace of mind always.” (Buddha)


“The goal of meditation isn’t to control your thoughts, it’s to stop letting them control you.” (Unknown author)


 “You should sit in meditation for 20 minutes a day. Unless you’re too busy. Then you should sit for one hour.” (Old zen saying)


“If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate.” (Ajahn Chah)


“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” (Buddha)


“Within you, there is a stillness and a sanctuary to which you can retreat any time and be yourself.” (Hermann Hesse)


“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.” (Eckhart Tolle)


“Chasing after the world brings chaos. Allowing it all to come to me, brings peace.” (Unknown author)


“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” (Thich Nhat Hahn)


 “Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.” (Bryant McGill)


“If you abandon the present moment, you cannot live the moments of your daily life deeply.” (Thich Nhat)


 “We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.” (Buddha)


“What you think, you become. What you feel, you attract. What you imagine, you create.” (Buddha)


 “There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” (Buddha)


“Peace cannot be kept by force it can be achieved by understanding.” (Albert Einstein)


 “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)


 “Your vision will become clear only when you look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams, who looks insides, awakes.” (Carl Jung Gustav)


“As long as your heart remains, an ever-mounting aspiration-flame. It makes no difference what your weaknesses are.” (Sri Chinmoy)


“Peace begins with a smile.” (Mother Teresa)


 “The universe is not outside of you. Look inside yourself, everything that you want, you already are.” (Rumi)


 “Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.” (Pema Chodron)


 “Meditation is being in tune with our inner energy source.” (Unknown author)


 “Meditation is not to escape from society, but to come back to ourselves and see what is going on. Once there is seeing, there must be acting. With mindfulness we know what to do and what not to do to help.” (Thich Nhat Hanh)


 “Only in my deep meditation do I come to know who I truly am.” (Sri Chinmoy)


 “Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.” (Ajahn Brahm)


 “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.” (Jiddu Krishnamurti)


 “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 in 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)


“Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” (Bruce Lee)


”You should not be carried away by the dictation of the mind, but the mind should be carried by your dictation.” (A.C Bhaktivedanta Swami)


 “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” (Amit Ray)


“Silence is not an absence but a presence.” (Anne D. LeClaire)


 “I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.” (Antoine de Saint-Exupery)


 “You will not be punished for your anger, you will be punished by your anger.” (Buddha)


“The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” (Caroline Myss)


“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.” (Dalai Lama)


“In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practicing meditation.” (Unknown author)


“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 still in that, the natural (real) state.” (Ramana Maharshi)


“Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.” (Patanjali)


“Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.” (Lao Tzu)


“Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.” (Tim Ferriss)


 “You don’t need any methods to get rid of the wrong ideas you have about yourself. All you have to do is stop believing them. The best way to do this is to replace them with ideas that more accurately reflect the real state of affairs.” (Annamalai Swami)


“The first steps in self-acceptance are not at all pleasant, for what one sees is not a happy sight. One needs all the courage to go further.” (Nisargadatta Maharaj)


“Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” (Swami Sivananda)


 “Mind can be your best friend or your worst enemy.” (Kabira)


 “Go within every day and find the inner strength, so that the world cannot blow your candle out.” (Katherine Dunham)


 “Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” (Lao Tzu)


“He who lives in harmony with himself, lives in harmony with the universe.” (Marcus Aurelius)


“Listen to the compass of your heart. All you need lies within you.” (Mary Anne Radmacher)


“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.” (James Allen)


“Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is.” (Nisargadatta Maharaj)


“You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible.” (Deepak Chopra)


 “You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” (Eckhart Tolle)


“Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?” (David M. Bader)


 “Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.” (Thich Nhat Hanh)


 “When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere.” (Francois de La Rochefoucauld)


 “Paradise is not a place, it’s a state of consciousness.” (Sri Chinmoy)


 “Don’t try to solve anything, just be.” (Maxime Lagacé)


 “Praying is talking to the Universe. Meditation is listening to it.” (Paulo Coelho)


“Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.” (Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati)


 “May my heart be kind. May my mind be fierce. May my spirit be brave.” (Kate Forsyth)


 “Don’t go for what you know you can get. Go for what you really want.” (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)


 “Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life.” (Buddha)


 “Meditation is the secret of all growth in spiritual life and knowledge.” (James Allen)


 “Self-observation is the first step of inner unfolding.” (Amit Ray)


“Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty – climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all sorts of things. But nobody seems to appreciate this kind of natural beauty of ourselves. This is actually far more beautiful than flora and fauna, far more fantastic, far more painful and colorful and delightful.” (Chogyam Trungpa)


“You have to grow from the inside out. None can teach you; none can make you spiritual. There is no other teacher but you own soul.” (Swami Vivekananda)


“Meditation will not carry you to another world, but it will reveal the most profound and awesome dimensions of the world in which you already live. Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.” (Zen Master Hsing Yu)


 “When you truly know yourself, you don’t try to impress people anymore. One way to know yourself is to meditate.” (Maxime Lagacé)


“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” (Marcus Aurelius)


“Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection.” (Amit Ray)


“I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.” (Eckhart Tolle)


Inhale the good sh*t, exhale the bullsh*t. (Unknown author)


Meditation: Because some answers can only be found on the inner net. – Shira Tamir

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