25 Meditation Quotes to Give You Peace

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We may question our progress and feel confused as we come face to face with our restless mind. Many of us may even begin to question whether we’re doing it properly.

For that reason, it’s important that we have a teacher to guide us.

Meditation is a subtle practice, and an effective teacher works as a coach in any field, helping you find your way and correct your mistakes. Unfortunately, it’s not always easy to find an experienced teacher in your area.

That’s why many people turn to books about meditation for inspiration. Dozens of great meditation book have been written over the years, from Buddhist perspectives such as Thich Nhat Hans’ The Miracle of Mindfulness to the medical doctor Jon Kabat-Zinn’s, Wherever You Go There You Are.

Some texts may be more instructional and focus on exactly what you should do to in your meditation practice; how to sit, how to breathe, what mantra to chant, and various other helpful hints.

On the other hand, some meditation texts take a more poetic approach.

When someone is both a good teacher and a competent writer, their words can transform our mind and put us in a state of peace. This is incredibly important when we’re going through tough periods in our life and when our meditation practice just doesn’t seem to be helping us calm our minds.

Here at keepinspiring.me, we know the value of mindfulness and meditation. That’s why we’ve put together a balanced group of meditation quotes to help guide and encourage your meditation practice, wherever you are on your journey.

Here are 25 meditation quotes to give you peace.

Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.

Thich Nhat Hahn

Meditation is a process of lightening up, of trusting the basic goodness of what we have and who we are, and of realizing that any wisdom that exists, exists in what we already have. We can lead our life so as to become more awake to who we are and what we’re doing rather than trying to improve or change or get rid of who we are or what we’re doing. The key is to wake up, to become more alert, more inquisitive and curious about ourselves.

Pema Chodron

To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quiet, still.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.

Swami Muktananda
An pen water lily and a bud on top of a pool reflecting clouds in purple light
“Meditation provides a way of learning how to let go. As we sit, the self we’ve been trying to construct and make into a nice, neat package continues to unravel.” – John Welwood

Meditation will not carry you to another world, but it will reveal the most profound and awesome dimensions of the world in which you already live. Calmly contemplating these dimensions and bringing them into the service of compassion and kindness is the right way to make rapid gains in meditation as well as in life.

Zen Master Hsing Yun

Give the child a taste of meditation by creating a climate and atmosphere of love, acceptance and silence.

Swami Dhyan Giten

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

Ajahn Brahm

Touch your inner space, which is nothingness, as silent and empty as the sky; it is your inner sky. Once you settle down in your inner sky, you have come home, and a great maturity arises in your actions, in your behavior. Then whatever you do has grace in it. Then whatever you do is a poetry in itself. You live poetry; your walking becomes dancing, your silence becomes music.

Osho
Sunlight and shadows falling on a pathway through a dense forest
“Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.” – Lao Tzu

With every breath, the old moment is lost; a new moment arrives. We exhale and we let go of the old moment. It is lost to us. In doing so, we let go of the person we used to be. We inhale and breathe in the moment that is becoming. In doing so, we welcome the person we are becoming. We repeat the process. This is meditation. This is renewal. This is life.

Lama Surya Das

The act of meditation is being spacious.

Sogyal Rinpoche

We must experience the Truth in a direct, practical and real way. This is only possible in the stillness and silence of the mind; and this is achieved by means of meditation.

Samael Aun Weor

Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless – like water. Now you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup, you put water into a bottle, it becomes the bottle, you put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.

Bruce Lee
A woman in black doing a flying crow yoga pose against a blue desert sky
“Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.” – Kathleen McDonald

In the same way that rain breaks into a house with a bad roof, desire breaks into the mind that has not been practicing meditation.

Anonymous

Meditation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity.

Baba Ram Dass

If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.

Ramana Maharshi

Undisturbed calmness of mind is attained by cultivating friendliness toward the happy, compassion for the unhappy, delight in the virtuous, and indifference toward the wicked.

Patanjali, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali
A young buddhist boy in orange sits in a pool, pouring water from a bowl onto a stone
“Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.” – Deepak Chopra

The more regularly and the more deeply you meditate, the sooner you will find yourself acting always from a center of peace.

J. Donald Walters

Mindfulness practice means that we commit fully in each moment to be present; inviting ourselves to interface with this moment in full awareness, with the intention to embody as best we can an orientation of calmness, mindfulness, and equanimity right here and right now.

Jon Kabat-Zinn

Don’t hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.

Zen Master Bankei Yotaku

I have lived with several Zen masters – all of them cats.

Eckhart Tolle
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“Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.” – Amit Ray
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Quincy Seale

Quincy is KIM's editor, and has collected and shared inspiring quotes and stories since 2005. Quincy holds an MBA from the University of Dundee and an MSc from the University of Edinburgh, and lives in San Antonio with his wife Natalie, son Alex, and his dog Oban.

3 thoughts on “25 Meditation Quotes to Give You Peace”

  1. What a great collection of meditation quotes. Good job! Meditation is really a very power tool that can change one’s life. Keep inspiring people by sharing how amazing meditation is.

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