Quiet the Mind and Get Your Zen on With These 50 Quotes About Meditation

Nicole Pajer
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You'll feel more relaxed and inspired with every quote.

It's no secret that meditation is good for you. Studies have proven that having a regular meditation practice can do everything from alleviating your anxiety to lowering your blood pressure, improving cognitive function and even slowing down the process of aging. And many of these benefits can be experienced by quieting the mind for a mere 10 to 15 minutes a day.  While quotes about meditation won't replace your meditation practice, they can serve as inspiration.

Here are 50 meditation quotes that will take you one step closer to achieving a calm mind. Bonus points if you make daily meditation quotes a part of your overall mindfulness practice!

50 Best Meditation Quotes

  1. “Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.” – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

  2. “Meditation is not about stopping thoughts, but recognizing that we are more than our thoughts and our feelings.” — Arianna Huffington

  1. “Learn to be calm and you will always be happy” – Paramahansa Yogananda

  2. “It is indeed a radical act of love just to sit down and be quiet for a time by yourself” – Jon Kabat-Zinn

  3. “Mediation is not spacing out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves” – Kathleen McDonald

  4. “The thing about meditation is you become more and more you.” – David Lynch

  5. “I meditate so that my mind cannot complicate my life” – Sri Chinmoy

  6. ““With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips.” — Tara Stiles

  7. “Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.”– Ajahn Brahm

  8. “Meditation is not about feeling a certain way. It's about feeling the way you feel.” — Dan Harris

  9. “Mediation means dissolving the invisible walls that unaware has built” – Sadhguru

  10. “A most useful approach to meditation practice is to consider it the most important activity of each day. Schedule it as you would an extremely important appointment, and unfailingly keep your appointment with the infinite” – Roy Eugene Davis

  11. “The act of meditation is being spacious.”– Sogyal Rinpoche

  12. “Meditation is allowing what is” – Victor Davich

  13. “Remember the blue sky. It may at times be obscured by clouds, but it is always there.” – Andy Puddicombe

  14. “Mediation is a vital way to purify and quiet the mind, thus rejuvenating the body” – Deepak Chopra

  15. “When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a candle in a windless place” —Bhagavad Gita 

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  1. “Be here now. Be someplace later. Is that so complicated?” – David M. Bader

  2. “Your calm mind is the ultimate weapon against your challenges. So relax.” – Bryant McGill

  3. “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

  4. “The goal of mediation is not to get rid of thoughts or emotions. The goal is to become more aware of your thoughts and emotions and learn how to move through them without getting stuck.” – Dr. P Goldin

  5. “Meditation is choosing not to engage in the drama of the mind but elevating the mind to its highest potential.” – Amit Ray

  6. “When your world moves too fast and you lose yourself in the chaos, introduce yourself to each color of the sunset. Reacquaint yourself with the earth beneath your feet. Thank the air that surrounds you with every breath you take. Find yourself in the appreciation of life.” – Christy Ann Martine

  7. “Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.” – Marcus Aurelius

  8. “The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.” – James Allen

  9. “Meditation is hanging out with your soul.” – Rachel Ritlop

  10. “The more regularly and the more deeply you meditate, the sooner you will find yourself acting always from a center of inner peace.” – J. Donald Walters

  11. “The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious; it is the source of all true art and science.” – Albert Einstein

  12. "Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively." — Sharon Salzberg

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  1. “Mediation applies the brakes to the mind” – Rama Maharshi

  2. “The quieter you become, the more you are able to hear” – Rumi

  3. “To let go does not mean to get rid of. To let go means to let be. When we let be with compassion, things come and things go on their own” – Jack Kornfield

  4. "Meditation is for moms what eyesight is for pilots. It allows us to see where we're headed, respond to conditions in our environment, and make adjustments when necessary” — Amber Trueblood

  1. “Be free like a balloon is. Let go of all the weights (negativity) to fly to the highest of skies” – Aman Khurana

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

  3. “Mediation and concentration are the way to a life of serenity” – Baba Ram Dass

  4. “Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.”– Swami Muktananda

  5. “If the mind falls asleep, awaken it. Then if it starts wandering, make it quiet. If you reach the state where there is neither sleep nor movement of mind, stay still in that, the natural (real) state.”– Ramana Maharshi

Related: How To Start a Daily Meditation Practice

  1. “Meditation is not evasion, it is a serene encounter with reality” – Thich Nhat Hanh

  2. “You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer” – Eckhart Tolle

  3. “Don’t hate the arising of thoughts or stop the thoughts that do arise. Simply realize that our original mind, right from the start, is beyond thought, so that no matter what, you never get involved with thoughts. Illuminate original mind, and no other understanding is necessary.”– Zen Master Bankei Yotaku

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

  2. “Learn to slow down. Get lost intentionally. Observe how you judge both yourself and those around you.” – Tim Ferriss

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

  4. “The best mediation is effortless. The best meditation is a gentle awareness” – Maxime Lagacé

  5. “If you have time to breathe, you have time to meditate. You breathe when you walk. You breathe when you stand. You breathe when you lie down.” – Ajahn Amaro

  6. “The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it” – Dalai Lama

  7. “Meditation is bringing the mind home.” – Sogyal Rinpoche

  8. “Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.” – Alan Watts

  9. “Meditation is intermittent fasting for the mind. Too much sugar leads to a heavy body, and too many distractions lead to a heavy mind. Time spent undistracted and alone, in self-examination, journaling, meditation, resolves the unresolved and takes us from mentally fat to fit.” – Naval Ravikant

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