Meditation Quotes

My favorite:

Blaise Pascal: "All people's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone."

• “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.” Caroline Myss

• “The present moment is filled with joy and happiness. If you are attentive, you will see it.” Thich Nhat Hanh

• “We don’t sit in meditation to become good meditators. We sit in meditation so that we’ll be more awake in our lives.” Pema Chödrön

• "Letting go gives us freedom, and freedom is the only condition for happiness. If, in our heart, we still cling to anything—anger, anxiety, or possessions—we cannot be free.” Thich Nhat Hanh

• “Meditation is evolution’s strategy to bring out our full potential.” Tara Brach

• “You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.” Alan Watts

• “Life is a mystery – mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.” Amit Ray

• "Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself." Hermann Hesse