Daily Meditation Quotes

• If you want to find God, hang out in the space between your thoughts.

  Alan Cohen

  God, Yoga, Meditation Practice

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

  Eknath Easwaran

  Yoga, Giving, Focus

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• Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

  Carol P. Christ

  Nature, Meditation, Bird

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• If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.

  Amit Ray

  Stress, Inspiration, Meditation Practice

  Amit Ray (2015). “Mindfulness: Living in the Moment Living in the Breath”, p.7, INNER LIGHT PUBLISHERS

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  Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Spiritual, Inspiration, Mean

  Quoted in The Penguin Krishnamurti Reader, ed. Mary Lutyens (1970)

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• Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

  Nhat Hanh

  Anchors, Walking Meditation, Sky

  Twitter post from Jan 05, 2016

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• Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

  Ma Jaya

  Yoga Practice, Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga

  Ma Jaya Bhagavati (2011). “The 11 Karmic Spaces: Choosing Freedom From The Patterns That Bind You”, p.56, BookBaby

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  Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there - buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Yoga, Positive Thinking

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• Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wisdom, Yoga, Ignorance

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• Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.

  Alan Watts

  Life, Inspiring, Yoga

  Alan Watts (1977). “The essence of Alan Watts”, Celestial Arts Publishing Company

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• Daily meditation keeps me sane. I memorize prayers or poems that express my highest spiritual ideals, and quietly, word for word, go through the prayer first thing in the morning. Julian of Norwich or St. Francis or the compassionate Buddha. It's called passage meditation. You internalize the perennial philosophies.

  Ashley Judd

  Success, Spiritual, Morning

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• We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.

  C. S. Lewis

  Wisdom, Loneliness, Silence

  "The Weight of Glory". Book by C. S. Lewis, 1949.

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• Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Book, Reading, Knowledge

  Benjamin Franklin (2008). “The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac”, Nayika Publishing

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• The gift of learning to meditate is the greatest gift you can give yourself in this lifetime.

  Sogyal Rinpoche

  Inspirational, Yoga, Meditation Practice

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness.

  Sivananda

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Mind

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• We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

  Raul Julia

  Thinking, Meditation, Way

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• Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

  Voltaire

  Yoga, Thinking, Meditation Practice

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• This life that has been given to us as a gift, as such a precious gift. To really try to understand it, really try to recognize it, is the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful.

  Prem Rawat

  Beautiful, Media, Meditation

  Speech at Denver, Colorado, February 19, 1977.

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• Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Philosophical, Inspiration, Being Alone

  c. AD 170-180 Meditations, bk.4, no.3 (translated by M Staniforth).

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• I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Education, Teacher, Freedom

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• Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness.

  George MacDonald

  Inspirational, Stress, Meditation Practice

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• Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

  Peter McWilliams

  Yoga, Taken, Thinking

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.

  Pema Chodron

  Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises.

  Johannes Tauler

  Religious, Exercise, Meditation

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• Giving to others is the greatest gift you can give yourself.

  Darren Hardy

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Giving

  "The Pursuit of Happiness". Interview with Darren Hardy, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 17, 2014.

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