The document contains quotes about meditation from various figures. It discusses meditation as a way to enter the quiet that exists beneath surface thoughts, as a healthy lifestyle choice like exercise, and as the language of the soul. Several quotes note that meditation can foster the ability to inhibit quick emotional impulses and bring order to everyday life. Meditation is described as being painful at first but ultimately bestowing bliss.

1. Meditation Quotes

2. “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”
Deepack Chopra

3. “Meditation doesn’t need to be a spiritual thing. It just
needs to be a healthy lifestyle choice like exercise and
healthy food”
Jonathan Robert Banks

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

5. “I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for
hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without
love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is
yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the
waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready
for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the
stillness the dancing.”
T.S. Eliot

6. “Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows
immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.”
Swami Sivananda

7. “The Way to do is to be.”
Lao Tzu

8. “At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky,
because I’ve made mountains out of molehills. With
meditation, I can keep them as molehills.”
Ringo Starr

9. “Keep your heart clear
And transparent,
And you will
Never be bound.
A single disturbed thought
Creates ten thousand distractions.”
Ryokan

10. “Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the
ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.”
Daniel Goleman

11. “Within each of us is a light, awake, encoded in the
fibers of our existence. Divine ecstasy is the totality of
this marvelous creation experienced in the hearts of
humanity”
Tony Samara

12. “Meditation is such a more substantial reality than
what we normally take to be reality.”
Richard Gere

13. “I’m also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing
and everything at the same time.”
Mike Oldfield

14. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be
extraordinarily quiet, still.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti

15. “Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves
ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what
hold you back, and choose the path that leads to
wisdom.”
Buddha

16. “The soil in which the meditative mind can begin is the soil of everyday life, the
strife, the pain, and the fleeting joy. It must begin there, and bring order, and from
there move endlessly. But if you are concerned only with making order, then that
very order will bring about its own limitation, and the mind will be its prisoner. In
all this movement you must somehow begin from the other end, from the other
shore, and not always be concerned with this shore or how to cross the river. You
must take a plunge into the water, not knowing how to swim. And the beauty of
meditation is that you never know where you are, where you are going, what the
end is.”
Jiddu Krishnamurti

17. “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

18. “You exist in time, but you belong to eternity- You are a
penetration of eternity into the world of time-You are
deathless, living in a body of death- Your consciousness knows
no death, no birth- It is only your body that is born and diesBut you are not aware of your consciousness-You are not
conscious of your consciousness-And that is the whole art of
meditation; Becoming conscious of consciousness itself.”
Osho

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

20. “Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal
awareness or Pure consciousness without
objectification, knowing without thinking, merging
finitude in infinity.”
Voltaire

21. “Respond; don’t react.
Listen; don’t talk.
Think; don’t assume.”
Raji Lukkoor

22. “Sitting still is a pain in the ass.”
Noah Levine

23. “That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness
unknown amid the harsh discords of the world’s
sounds.”
Paul Brunton

24. “When you plant a seed of love, it is you that blossoms.”
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

25. “Meditation, then, is bringing the mind home.”
Sogyal Rinpoche

26. “Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use
it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.”
Sharon Salzberg

27. “Be here now. Be someplace else later. Is that so
complicated?”
David Bader

28. “Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of
the mind can offer sanctuary.”
Stephen Richards

29. “In our modern world, it is essential that more people
are meditating in some way as an antidote to the
craziness . It doesn’t matter if you use traditional
methods or modern technology as long as you are
getting the benefits.”
Jonathan Robert Banks

30. “Your duty is to be and not to be this or that. ‘I am that I am’
sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the
words ‘Be still’. What does stillness mean? It means destroy
yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble.
Give up the notion that ‘I am so and so’. All that is required to
realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?”
Ramana Maharshi

31. “Mindfulness meditation doesn’t change life. Life remains as
fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the
heart’s capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be
more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but
by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.”
Sylvia Boorstein

32. “Learn to enjoy the way as much as you would enjoy
when you reach the destination.”
Sakshi Chetana

33. “With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of
my thoughts.”
Mary Bray Pipher

34. “The seeker after stillness should be told that the stillness is
always there. Indeed it is in every man. But he has to learn,
first, to let it in and, second, how to do so. The first beginning
of this is to remember. The second is to recognize the inward
pull. For the rest, the stillness itself will guide and lead him to
itself.”
Paul Brunton

35. “Spiritual yearning is the homesickness of the soul.”
Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

36. “Go within every day and find the inner strength
so that the world will not blow your candle out.”
Katherine Dunham

37. “Meditation is silence, energising and fulfilling. Silent
is the eloquent expression of the inexpressible.”
Sri Chinmoy

38. “Because all actions and expressions stem from the
mind, it is vital to know the mind as well as decide in
what way we’ll use it. Everyone has heard of
psychosomatic illness, and most of us acknowledge
that psychosomatic sicknesses can and do occur. But
what about psychosomatic wellness?”
H.E. Davey

39. “Healing and uplifting our brain, mind and heart is
now an imperative for us collectively so we can deal
with the tsunami of very real technological advances
rushing towards us, changing life as we know it
forever.”
Jonathan Robert Banks