80+ Meditation Quotes to Take You to the Positive State of Mind

Inspirational Quotes Meditation

Here are some meditation quotes to make you more inspired to do your meditation.

• "Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment." - Buddha

• "Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves." - Kathleen McDonald

• "Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you." - Tim Ferriss

• "Suffering is due to our disconnection with the inner soul. Meditation is establishing that connection." - Amit Ray

• "Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another." - Jon Kabat-Zinn

• "The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good." - James Allen

• "Whatever state I am in, I see it as a state of mind to be accepted as it is." - Nisargadatta Maharaj

• "Meditation is the art of doing nothing." - Naval Ravikant

• "Praying is talking to the Universe. Meditation is listening to it." - Paulo Coelho

• "You must find the place inside yourself where nothing is impossible." - Deepak Chopra

• "Meditation is a death – death of all that you are now. Of course, there will be a resurrection, but that will be a totally new, fresh original being which you are not even aware is hidden in you." - Osho

• "A few conscious-hearted, sincere, and energetic men and women can do more in a year than a mob in a century." - Swami Vivekananda

• "Meditation is freedom from thought and a movement in the ecstasy of truth. Meditation is explosion of intelligence." - Jiddu Krishnamurti

• "To really do nothing, with perfection, is as difficult as doing everything." - Alan Watts

• "You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer." - Eckhart Tolle

• "Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed." - Eckhart Tolle

• "Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so complicated?" - David M. Bader

• "Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life." - Thich Nhat Hanh

• "Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively." - Sharon Salzberg

• "That’s an essential survival thing." - Jerry Seinfeld

Daily Meditation Quotes

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Here are some meditation quotes to make you more relax to do your daily meditation.

• "Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax." - Osho

• "The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it." - 14th Dalai Lama

• "Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already." - Pema Chödrön

• "In practicing meditation, we’re not trying to live up to some kind of ideal – quite the opposite. We’re just being with our experience, whatever it is." - Pema Chödrön

• "Buddha spent six years meditating on the essence, causes, and cures for human anguish. In the end, he came to the realization that suffering is not caused by ill fortune, by social injustice, or by divine whims. Rather, suffering is caused by the behavior patterns of one’s minds." - Yuval Noah Harari

• "When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it elsewhere." - Francois de La Rochefoucauld

• "A day thinking about what could happen, should happen, or what might have been is a day missed.” -@Headspace

• "You are more than just your mind. You are more than just your habits. You are more than just your preferences. You’re a level of awareness." - Naval Ravikant

• "To be concentrated means to live fully in the present." - Erich Fromm

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

• "Paradise is not a place, it’s a state of consciousness." - Sri Chinmoy

• "Meditation is all about connecting with your soul." - Deepak Chopra

• "Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass." - Owen Feltham

• “Distractions are everywhere. Notice what takes your attention, acknowledge it, and then let it go.” - @Headspace

• "Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality." - Thich Nhat Hanh

• “The mind is our most precious resource, through which we experience every single moment of life. Are you looking after yours?” -@Headspace

Marcus Aurelius Meditation Quotes

Here are some meditation quotes by Marcus Aurelius, a well-known writer of meditation makes you more relaxed to do your meditation.

• “You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.”

• “Dwell on the beauty of life. Watch the stars, and see yourself running with them.”

• “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.”

• “Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”

• “Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one.”

• “If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”

• “When you arise in the morning think of what a privilege it is to be alive, to think, to enjoy, to love ...”

• “The best revenge is to be unlike him who performed the injury.”

• “Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do so with all your heart.”

• “The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.”

• “It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.”

• “Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.”

• “Our life is what our thoughts make it.”

• “If someone is able to show me that what I think or do is not right, I will happily change, for I seek the truth, by which no one was ever truly harmed. It is the person who continues in his self-deception and ignorance who is harmed.”

• “Whenever you are about to find fault with someone, ask yourself the following question: What fault of mine most nearly resembles the one I am about to criticize?”

• “If it is not right do not do it; if it is not true do not say it.”

• “I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinion of himself than on the opinion of others.”

• “The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”

• “Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself in your way of thinking.”

Funny Meditation Quotes

Here are some funny meditation quotes that can make you more relax to do your meditation in its way.

• "One of the biggest, most sad, and least funny yoga jokes of all: Yoga is a physical fitness program." — Unknown

• "Don’t just do something — Sit there!" — Unknown

• "When asked what gift he wanted for his birthday, the yogi replied: “I wish no gifts, only presence” — Unknown

• "The best vitamin to be a happy person is B1." — unknown

• "Meditation: Because some answers can only be found on the inner net." — Shira Tamir

• "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important." — Bertrand Russell

• "Change is inevitable, except from vending machines." — unknown

• "These mountains that you are carrying, you were only supposed to climb." — Najwa Zebain

• "Whenever you feel sad just remember there are billions of cells in your body and all they care about is you." — Anon

• "In the pursuit of happiness, the hard part is knowing when you’ve caught up." — Unknown

• "To earn the trust of your meditation, you have to visit it every day. It’s like having a puppy." — Chelsea Richer

• "There cannot be a stressful crisis next week. My schedule is already full." — Henry Kissinger

• "If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito." — Dalai Lama

• "Sorry for what I said before I meditated." — Unknown

• "Meditation, because some questions can’t be answered by Google." — Unknown

• "Check on yourself as much as you check on your Instagram." — Anon