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Quotes About Meditation

I have many questions, but no patience to think them through.
~ Maira Kalman
By perfecting the practices of zazen and mindfulness, by learning patience and love and by realizing the essential emptiness of all phenomena, you will discover nirvana.
~ Frederick Lenz
I want to do and I'm giving all the profits to charity, is to teach people to meditate. All it takes is a little bit of patience.
~ Russell Simmons
Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting alone is plenty of time to review all you've learned about the grand themes of life.
~ Carl Safina
Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.
~ Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
Listen to the inner light; It will guide you. Listen to the inner Peace; It will feed you. Listen to the inner Love; It will transform you, It will divinise you, It will immortalise you.
~ Sri Chinmoy
Without the Name, there is no peace.
~ Guru Gobind Singh
If there is no peace in the minds of individuals, how can there be peace in the world? Make peace in your own mind first.
~ S. N. Goenka
If one's mind has peace, the whole world will appear peaceful.
~ Ramana Maharshi
Discover real peace and harmony within yourself, and naturally this will overflow to benefit others.
~ S. N. Goenka
Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
~ Pythagoras
In a world of noise, confusion and conflict it is necessary that there be places of silence, inner discipline and peace. In such places love can blossom.
~ Thomas Merton
Open your grief-stricken heart to the Lord. Weep and sincerely pray, 'O Lord, draw me towards You; give me peace of mind.' By doing so constantly you, will gradually attain peace of mind.
~ Sarada Devi
If he cannot stop the mind that seeks after fame and profit, he will spend his life without finding peace.
~ Dogen
I wanted to get that sense of peace and even boredom that comes with long familiarity.
~ Debbie Reynolds
The mind can go in a thousand directions, but on this beautiful path, I walk in peace. With each step, the wind blows. With each step, a flower blooms.
~ Thich Nhat Hanh
True and lasting inner peace can never be found in external things. It can only be found within in. And then, once we find and nurture it with ourselves, it radiates outward.
~ Gautama Buddha
The universe bends to a still mind, peace be still.
~ Ab-Soul
Meditation is the most effective form of relaxation. It not only relaxes the body and mind but also feeds them with vital energy, peace and happiness.
~ Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I have inner peace. It's a different person.
~ Lauryn Hill
Health is wealth. Peace of mind is happiness. Yoga shows the way.
~ Vishnudevananda Saraswati
My stroke of insight would be: peace is only a thought away, and all we have to do to access it is silence the voice of our dominating left mind.
~ Jill Bolte Taylor
We all wish for world peace, but world peace will never be achieved unless we first establish peace within our own minds.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Instead of dwelling on negative thoughts, cause your mind to dwell on peace and joy.
~ Ernest Holmes