3,675 Quotes About Meditation

Imagine a time before you had ever had chocolate. Going to lectures about chocolate would have been interesting. Reading about chocolate might have increased your appetite. But only tasting chocolate would have really made you understand how good chocolate can be. Only tasting— only experience.

We all want results and we want them fast. But, when practicing meditation, impatience is a hindrance.

Simplicity is everywhere in nature, and meditation is a natural state. Meditation is a state of peaceful equilibrium, the fourth state of consciousness, and is always available to every single human being.

If you stick with the definition of spirituality as a peaceful internal state (a.k.a. deep, dreamless sleep while awake), then you will ignore some of the hallucinatory experiences that are bound to happen when you sit in silence (studies have shown that, in such circumstances, the mind often creates elaborate experiences and stories that are reminiscent of dreams) and refrain from interpreting them as something otherworldly.

Trust what is not known to your Mind. Trust what is known to your Heart.

You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.

The Beloved is Always There, Actively Seeking You.

When we understand that Peace is a state of mind we understand true Peace.

Peace is not the absence of pain, but the welcoming of pain as a teacher.