Meditation Quotes

Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection. View quote
Dalai Lama
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation. View quote
Jean Arp
'War,' says Machiavelli, 'ought to be the only study of a prince' and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. 'He ought,' says this great political doctor, 'to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans. 'A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature. View quote
Edmund Burke
The beauty of meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the end is. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti
A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life. View quote
Baruch Spinoza
Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end. View quote
Swami Sivananda
It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind. View quote
Joseph Smith
The purpose of meditation is personal transformation. View quote
Henepola Gunaratana
I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment. View quote
Benjamin Disraeli
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 to me the greatest meditation. Through the media of this Knowledge we can tap into our inner sources that are so beautiful. (Prem Rawat)
Meditation while walking has a long, noble history in ancient spiritual disciplines. View quote
Andrew Weil
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones. View quote
Sogyal Rinpoche
The act of meditation is being spacious. View quote
Sogyal Rinpoche
The point of meditation is not merely to be an honest or good person in the conventional sense, trying only to maintain our security. We must begin to become compassionate and wise in the fundamental sense, open and relating to the world as it is. View quote
Chogyam Trungpa
From the perspective of meditation, every state is a special state, every moment a special moment. View quote
Jon Kabat-Zinn
Sleep is the best meditation. View quote
Dalai Lama
A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both. View quote
Shreya Ghoshal
I write, or used to write, to explain to myself situations I couldn't otherwise solve or understand. Meditation comes very naturally to me. View quote
Anne Stevenson
It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others. View quote
Sinclair Lewis
Meditation on any theme, if positive and honest, inevitably separates him who does the meditating from the opinion prevailing around him, from that which ... can be called "public” or "popular” opinion. (José Ortega y Gasset)
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation. View quote
Henri Cartier-Bresson
Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death. View quote
Simone Weil
The primary purpose of meditation is to become conscious of, and familiar with, our inner life. The ultimate purpose is to reach the source of life and consciousness. View quote
Nisargadatta Maharaj
Meditation is not a process of learning how to meditate; it is the very inquiry into what is meditation. To inquire into what is meditation, the mind must free itself from what it has learnt about meditation, and the freeing of the mind from what it has learnt is the beginning of meditation. View quote
Jiddu Krishnamurti