What Great Souls Say about Meditation…

Meditation has long been emphasized and practiced by thousands of people on the spiritual path to achieve greater heights of consciousness, or even by ordinary people just to achieve a higher degree of calmness and peace.

Whatever purpose the meditators have had in mind, the benefits gained through meditation have persuaded man to look into meditation as a part of daily life.

There are many meditation quotes by well-known authors, teachers and spiritual figures that point out the benefits of this priceless practice and explain its real meaning.

Currently even many artists, politicians, actors and businessmen have turned into meditation and have recorded inspiring meditation quotes to look into.

“The purpose of meditation is to develop your Higher Faculties. Without this development, understanding deeper Spiritual Truths is not possible.”

Master Choa Kok Sui

“Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our own natural capacity of healing do the work.”

Thich Nhat Hanh

“Meditation state is a place of deep relaxation where you can pinpoint the things you do and to set a paradigm switch from effect to cause. So how to be a cause in your own life.”

Roseanne Barr

“Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.”

Swami Sivananda

“If you meditate, sooner or later you will come upon love. If you meditate deeply, sooner or later you will start feeling a tremendous love arising in you that you have never known before.”

Osho

“Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.”

Ramana Maharshi

“Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.”

Jeremy Taylor

“The whole of meditation practice can be essentialized into these 3 crucial points: Bring your mind home. Release. And relax!”

Sogyal Rinpoche

“One hour’s meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.”

Holy Prophet Muhammad

“The more man meditates upon good thoughts, the better will be his world and the world at large.”

Confucius

“Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.”

Swami Sivananda

“Meditation brings wisdom; lack of mediation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom.”

Lord Buddha

“It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart.”

Mahatma Gandhi

“Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It’s a way of entering into the quiet that’s already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.”

Deepak Chopra

“Meditation speeds up the evolutionary process by gradually purifying negative tendencies.”

Master Choa Kok Sui

“Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us and all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction. Transformation of life is the culmination of divine satisfaction.”

Sri Chinmoy

“Meditation is listening to the Divine within.”

Edgar Cayce

“Divinely bent to meditation; And in no worldly suits would he be mov’d, To draw him from his holy exercise.”

William Shakespeare

“Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak.”

Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

“Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves.”

Kathleen McDonald

“Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you’ve ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.”

Hugh Jackman

“When meditating, do not expect something to happen. Otherwise, you are meditating on your expectation, and you are not doing the Meditation itself.”

Master Choa Kok Sui

“Words are but the shell; meditation is the kernel.”

Bahya ibn Paquda

“Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are seeking the Truth.”

James Allen

“Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.”

Francis Quarles

“If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.”

Sri Chinmoy

“The purpose of meditation is personal transformation.”

Henepola Gunaratana

“Mind only thinks, meditation lives.”

Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

“Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for silence. Silence is meditation.”

Yogaswami

“The supreme bliss that pulsates in the wake of meditation is your pure essence.”

Swami Muktananda

“In Meditation, you may experience expansion of Light moving in all directions towards Infinity. Beyond the Infinite Light is the dark void, which is a transition point. Beyond the dark void is greater Infinite Light.”

Master Choa Kok Sui