Mindfulness & Meditation

Category Mindfulness

Here are some quotes related to mindfulness along with the authors’ names:

“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that. It is opening to or receiving the present moment, pleasant or unpleasant, just as it is, without either clinging to it or rejecting it.” – Sylvia Boorstein

“You can’t stop the waves, but you can learn how to surf.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Mindfulness clears the windshield of the mind so that we can see things as they really are.” – Travis Eliot

“When you realize nothing is lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu

“The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

“In today’s rush, we all think too much, seek too much, want too much, and forget about the joy of just being.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Mindfulness means being awake. It means knowing what you are doing.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“The best way to capture moments is to pay attention. This is how we cultivate mindfulness.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Mindfulness is the practice of purposely focusing your attention on the present moment—and accepting it without judgment.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Mindfulness is a way of befriending ourselves and our experience.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Mindfulness isn’t difficult, we just need to remember to do it.” – Sharon Salzberg

“Mindfulness is the miracle by which we master and restore ourselves.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

“Mindfulness is the aware, balanced acceptance of the present experience. It isn’t more complicated than that.” – Sylvia Boorstein

Category Meditation

Here are some quotes related to meditation along with the authors’ names:

“Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.” – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

“Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.” – Arianna Huffington

“Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.” – Paramahansa Yogananda

“It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

“Meditation is not spacing out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.” – Kathleen McDonald

“The thing about meditation is you become more and more you.” – David Lynch

“I meditate so that my mind cannot complicate my life.” – Sri Chinmoy

“With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips.” – Tara Stiles

“Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.” – Ajahn Brahm

“Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It’s about feeling the way you feel.” – Dan Harris

“Meditation means dissolving the invisible walls that unawareness has built.” – Sadhguru

“A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Schedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite.” – Roy Eugene Davis

“The act of meditation is being spacious.” – Sogyal Rinpoche

“Meditation is allowing what is.” – Victor Davich

“Remember the blue sky. It may at times be obscured by clouds, but it is always there.” – Andy Puddicombe

“Meditation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body.” – Deepak Chopra

“When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a candle in a windless place.” – Bhagavad Gita

“Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.” – Bryant McGill

“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.” – Bruce Lee

“Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

“When you truly know yourself, you don’t try to impress people anymore. One way to know yourself is to meditate.” – Maxime Lagacé

“Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.” – James Allen

“Whatever is fluid, soft, and yielding will overcome whatever is rigid and hard. What is soft is strong.” – Lao Tzu

“Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” – Marcus Aurelius

“When you own your breath, nobody can steal your peace.” – Unknown

“Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.” – Buddha

“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

“The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.” – James Allen

“Meditation is the art of doing nothing.” – Naval Ravikant

“Praying is talking to the Universe. Meditation is listening to it.” – Paulo Coelho

“Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.” – Thích Nhất Hạnh

“You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” – Eckhart Tolle

“Sleep is the best meditation.” – Dalai Lama

“We experience happiness as a series of pleasing moments. They come and go like clouds, unpredictable, fleeting, and without responsibility to our desires.” – Unknown

“Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” – Alan Watts

“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.” – Jeremy Taylor

“Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass.” – Owen Feltham

“Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. And honor the reward of action.” – Francis Quarles

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.” – Voltaire