Quotes About Meditation

Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what holds you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.

To realize the unimportance of time is the gate to wisdom.

True spirituality is a mental attitude you can practice at any time.

Gravity is only the bark of wisdom's tree, but it preserves it.

Relaxation is the doorway to both wisdom and compassion.

My work as a human being is to quiet my mind, open my heart and do what I can to relieve the suffering with as much wisdom, skill, whatever I got.

How wonderful, how miraculous, all beings, but all beings, are fully endowed with the wisdom and power of the Tathagat. But, sadly, human beings, due to sticky attachments, are not aware of it

To achieve your ethereal state, you have to expand your thoughtless awareness.

Night is the mother of counsels.

Solitude is the best nurse of wisdom.

Those who have no mental vigilance, Though they may hear the teachings, ponder them or meditate, With minds like water seeping from a leaking jug, Their learning will not settle in their memories.

Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

Meditation is the only way you can grow. Because when you meditate, you are in silence, you are in thoughtless awareness. Then the growth of awareness takes place.

Spirit is like a mirror where you see yourself clearly and you start changing yourself.

The mind usually says, "I know, I know, I know." But the "don't-know mind" is where wisdom lives.

If you could stop reflecting, immediately you establish yourself in the ocean of peace.

The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.

Self examination is the key to insight, which is the key to wisdom

If you remember the creation (gossip about such and such a person), then remember Allah the Most High. Remembering Him is the medicine for remembering His creation.

The goal of our life's effort is to reach the other shore, Nirvana. Prajna paramita, the true wisdom of life, is that in each step of the way, the other shore is actually reached.

There are, O monks, these four lights. What four? The light of the moon, the light of the sun, the light of fire, and the light of wisdom. Of these four lights, the light of wisdom is supreme.

Wisdom grows in quiet places.

Close both eyes to see with the other eye.

To see the unreal is wisdom. Beyond this lies the inexpressible.