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Quotes About Meditation

We can never obtain peace in the outer world until we make peace with ourselves.
~ Dalai Lama XIV
The primary aim of yoga is to restore the mind to simplicity, peace, and poise, to free it from confusion and distress.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
If you're looking for inner peace from the outside world, you're not going to get that. The inner peace starts with looking at you from the inside.
~ Mary J. Blige
Where there is peace and meditation, there is neither anxiety nor doubt.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart.
~ Patanjali
Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.
~ Robert J. Sawyer
The Buddha's dharma didn't teach peace and relaxation; it taught awakening—often rude awakening.
~ Jay Michaelson
The Art of Peace begins with you.
~ Morihei Ueshiba
Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.
~ Swami Muktananda
The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others will be possible.
~ Nhat Hanh
Carrying a poppy he passes through the quarrel.
~ Kobayashi Issa
Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.
~ Paramahansa Yogananda
That peace which is within us, we must experience it. And if we are searching for peace outside we will never find the peace within.
~ Prem Rawat
Yoga is the golden key that unlocks the door to peace, tranquility and joy.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.
~ Rabindranath Tagore
My favorite piece of technical writing: Assembly of Japanese bicycle require great peace of mind.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Only by creating peace within our own mind and helping others to do the same can we hope to achieve peace in this world.
~ Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Real peace comes only to those who control the body and mind with self-discipline.
~ Vishnudevananda Saraswati
Exercise is the key not only to physical health but to peace of mind.
~ Nelson Mandela
Before peace between the nations, we have to find peace inside that small nation which is our own being.
~ B.K.S. Iyengar
Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.
~ H. W. L. Poonja
If a person's basic state of mind is serene and calm, then it is possible for this inner peace to overwhelm a painful physical experience.
~ Dalai Lama
Bach takes you to a very quiet place within yourself, to the inner core, a place where you are calm and at peace.
~ Yo-Yo Ma