3,675 Quotes About Meditation

The succession of thoughts appears in time, but the gap between two of them is outside time. The gap itself is normally unobserved. The chance of enlightenment is missed.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

Look at a tree, how calm, lovely and beautiful she is. She is always meditating for the love of the sun.

Meditation is like hearing a voice on the telephone: there might be slight delays if the line is not perfect, but it is otherwise direct and requires no effort other than listening

An untrained mind usually focuses not on what one needs and has but on what one wants but lacks.

Every word you speak is a prayer, or meditation of reinforcement which creates permanence.

We have between 60,000- and 80,000 thoughts a day. That’s a thought every 1.2 seconds…but we are not our thoughts – we have thoughts. Just like a cell phone is not our texts…it receives texts but they are not the phone. You have thoughts but you are not your thoughts.

There is peace in the present when one's aware of how to manage what works for them and what drains them with a calm mind.

Plough your fields, cast your seeds, the rains will come when they please.