Inspirational Meditation Quotes

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  The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind

  Caroline Myss

  Inspiring, Inspiration, Healing

  Twitter post from Feb 05, 2014

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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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• 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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  In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Spiritual, Encouragement

  FaceBook post by Deepak Chopra from Dec 14, 2011

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

  Alan Cohen

  God, Yoga, Meditation Practice

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• I deepen my experience of God through prayer, meditation, and forgiveness.

  Marianne Williamson

  God, Prayer, Meditation

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

  Sivananda

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, Mind

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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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• Yoga teaches us to cure what need not be endured and endure what cannot be cured.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Inspiring, Success, Yoga

  BKS Iyengar (2015). “Yoga For Sports: A Journey towards Health and Healing”, p.106, Westland

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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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• The secret of health for both mind and body is...live the present moment wisely and earnestly.

  Gautama Buddha

  Being Happy, Health, Healing

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• Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.

  James Allen

  Yoga, Self, Meditation

  James Allen (2013). “As a Man Thinketh & The Way of Peace”, p.23, Simon and Schuster

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• Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Atheist, Believe

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• There will always be people who can do it better than you, but that's a good thing! Start to see competition as inspiration — without envy.

  Kathryn Budig

  Inspirational, Yoga, People

  Twitter post from Aug 25, 2014

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• Meditation creates more time than it takes.

  Peter McWilliams

  Yoga, Meditation Practice, More Time

  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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• If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

  Alan Watts

  Inspiration, Meditation Practice, Boiler Room

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• If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.

  Dalai Lama

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Meditation, Inner Peace

  His Holiness the Dalai Lama (2017). “The Dalai Lama’s Book of Transformation”, p.5, HarperCollins UK

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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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• 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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• 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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