Enn-Vibe Meditation Quotes

1. “There are many spiritual books and many teachers, but our difficulties are many and life is short. So that which is the essence of all religions should be accepted”. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

2. “I know, but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind”. – Antoine de Saint-Exupery - French writer and pioneering aviator

 

3. “It is the desire of every human being to attain peace, bliss and joy, because inner peace is our birthright. Through sincere meditation you can achieve this”.

- Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

4. “What I am looking for is not out there, it is in me”. – Helen Keller - deafblind author, lecturer and political activist

 

5. “What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind”. – Sage Gautama Buddha circa 563 BCE to 843 BCE

 

6. “Jesus brooded upon the Divine imminence until at last he could declare …”I and my Father are One”. - James Allen 1864–1912, – British philosophical writer and pioneer of the self–help movement.

 

7. To a mind that is still … the whole universe surrenders. – Chuang Tzu 396 BC – 286 BC

 

8. “We live in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship”. - C. S. Lewis, (Clive Staples Lewis) British novelist, poet, lay theologian, and Christian apologist.

 

9. “Every religion teaches how to achieve calmness, being the ultimate goal of all religions. This calm is possible when one is completely united with whatever one understands to be the ultimate Source of all existence. - Kriya Yoga wisdom

10. “Withdraw your senses and come up to the fontanel, the place of Truth. It is easy through breath control. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

11. Listen to the wind … It talks. Listen to the Silence … It speaks. Listen to your heart … It knows. – Native American Wisdom

 

12. “Meditation is that magical tool that helps us to control our restless mind. Every day we are encountered with many hundreds and thousands of thoughts. Some of these are helpful whilst some of those are dangerous. Meditation helps to eliminate unwanted thoughts from our mind and from our life. We all know that a healthy body and mind are signs of a healthy life”. – Sourav Adhikari

 

13. “Use the Light that dwells within you to regain your natural clarity of sight”. – LaoTzu 600 Bc

 

14. “If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath”. – Amit Ray, Indian author and spiritual master.

 

15. “Meditation gives you an opportunity to come to know your invisible self. It allows you to empty yourself of the endless hyperactivity of your mind, and to attain calmness. It teaches you to be peaceful, to remove stress and to receive answers were confusion previously reigned”. - Dr Wayne Dyer, American Philosopher, Author and motivational speaker

 

16. “We are what our thoughts have made us; so take care about what you think. Words are secondary. Thoughts live; they travel far”. – Swami Vivekananda, chief disciple of the 19^th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.

 

17. “There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth: not going all the way. And not starting”. – Sage Gautama Buddha circa 563 BCE to 843 BCE

 

18. “The whole thing about meditation and yoga is about connecting to the higher part of yourself, and then seeing that every living thing is connected I some way”. – Gillian Leigh Anderson, American-British actress, activist and writer.

 

19. “Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in eternal awareness or pure consciousness, without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. – Voltaire, (Francois-Marie Arouet) 1694 – 1788, French Enlightenment writer and philosopher.

 

20. “Every human being has two forces within – centripetal and centrifugal. The centripetal force is the soul, and the centrifugal force is delusion Illusion and error. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

21. “Look well into thyself, there is a source of strength which will always spring up if thou wilt always look there. – Marcus Aurelius, Roman Emperor 161-180BC, and Stoic philosopher.

 

22. “Meditation is nothing but an effort to drop all the foreign elements so that you can see yourself as you were before you were born, mirrored in its purity”. - Osho Rajneesh, 1931-1990, Indian mystic and spiritual teacher.

 

23. “Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It’s like the ultimate rest. It’s better than the best sleep you ever had. It’s a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh”. - Hugh Jackman, - Australian Actor, Singer and Producer.

 

24. “Come into the silence of solitude and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God. – Paramahansa Yogananda 1893 – 1952, Indian Yogi, who introduced Kriya Yoga and meditation to westerners through his book Autobiography of a Yogi.

 

25. The YOU that goes in on one side of the meditation experience is not the same YOU as the one that comes out at the other side. – Bhante Henepole Gunaratana, Sri Lankan Theravada Buddhist monk.

 

26. “The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new”. - Socrates, classical Greek philosopher.

 

27. “It does not matter how long you are spending on earth, how much money you have gathered or how much attention you have received. It is the amount of positive vibration you have radiated in life that matters”. - Amit Ray, Indian author and spiritual master.

 

28. “Meditation connects you with your soul, and this connection gives you access to your intuition, your heartfelt desires, your integrity, and the inspiration to create a life you love”. – Sarah McLean, American author of romance novels.

 

29. “All you need to do is recognize your true position as the witness. You only have to dothis for some time, until the spell is broken. Even after the spell is broken these mental tendencies may arise , but without any power, just as you can see the moon in the daylight”. - Mooji, Jamaican spiritual teacher.

 

30. “Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom”. – Francis Bacon 1561 -1626, 1^st Viscount St Alban PC KC, English philosopher, statesman, scientist, and author.

 

31. “Many people chant, sing, dance, and pray loudly as if God is deaf. God is all-pervading. So meditate and realize God”. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master.

 

32. “Feelings come and go like clouds in the sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor”. – Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet, and peace activist.

 

33. “Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence”. – Deepak Chopra, Indian American author, public speaker, and alternative medicine advocate.

 

34. “One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship. - Muhammad (Muhammad ibn ‘Addullah), considered by Muslims to be the last messenger and prophet sent by God.

 

35. “One need not scale the heights of heavens, nor travel along the highways of the world to find Ahura Mazda. With purity of mind and holiness of heart one can find him in one’s own heart. – Zoroaster (Zarathustra), ancient Persian prophet and founder of Zoroastrianism.

 

36. “Sometimes you have to close your eyes to see clearly”. – Aine Belton, modern day mystic and founder of the Global Love Project.

 

37. “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”. – Sage Gautama Buddha circa 563 BCE to 843 BCE

 

38. “We spend a great deal of time telling God what we think should be done, and not enough time waiting in the stillness for God to tell us what to do”. - Peace Pilgrim, American nondenominational spiritual teacher, mystic, and peace activist.

 

39. “Information like fruit is already free … if you pluck it directly from the tree”. – Bashar, channelled through Darryl Anka.

 

40. “The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind”. – Caroline Miss, American author of numerous books including five New York Times Best Sellers.

 

41. “Your goal is not to battle the mind, but to witness the mind”. – Swami Muktananda, founder of Siddha Yoga. Disciple and successor of Bhagavan Nitvananda.

 

42. “There are those who know and do not do. This is very sad. In this materialistic age we have such a false criterion by which to measure success. We measure it in terms of dollars, in terms of material things. But happiness and inner peace do not lie in that direction. If you know and do not do, you are a very unhappy person indeed.” - Peace Pilgrim, American nondenominational spiritual teacher, mystic, and peace activist.

 

43. “Work is not always required. There is such a thing as sacred idleness”. – George MacDonald. Scottish author and Christian minister.

 

44. The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched – they must be felt with the heart”. – Helen Keller - deafblind author, lecturer and political activist

 

45. “Your sacred space is where you can find yourself again and again”. - Joseph Campbell, American mythologist, writer and lecturer.

 

46. “Meditation is the soul’s perspective glass”. - Owen Feltham, English writer.

 

47. “This is love: the flowering of love is meditation. - Jiddu Krishnamurti, speaker and writer on matters concerning humankind.

 

48. “Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed” - Francis de Sales, 1567-1622, Bishop of Geneva. Honoured as Roman Catholic Saint.

 

49. “Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. - Jeremy Taylor, 1613-1667, cleric in the Church of England and author who achieved fame during the protectorate of Oliver Cromwell.

 

50. “Dropping the mask and bringing out your original face is the alchemy of meditation”. - Osho Rajneesh, 1931-1990, Indian mystic and spiritual teacher.

 

51. “Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better; it’s about befriending who we are”. - Ani Pema Chodron, American, Tibetan Biddhist nun and disciple of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

 

52. “The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful, we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. But if our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions”. - Kelsang Gyatso; Buddhist monk, author and meditation teacher. Founder of the New Kadampa Tradition-International Buddhist Union.

 

53. “Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate”. - Swami Sivananda Saraswati. Proponent of Yoga and Vedanta.

 

54. “Just as you wouldn’t leave the house without taking a shower, you shouldn’t start the day without at least 10 minutes of sacred practice: prayer, meditation, inspirational reading”. – Marianne Williamson; American spiritual teacher, author, and lecturer.

 

55. “Mindfulness meditation does not change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart’s capacity to accept life as it is”. – Sylvia Boorstein; co-founding teaher at Spirit Rock meditation Center in Woodacre, California.

 

56. “When you realize how perfect everything is, you will tilt your head back and laugh at the sky”. – Sage Gautama Buddha circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE

 

57. “Prayer is when you talk to God; mediation is when you listen to God”. - Diana Robinson, sports-med specialist.

 

58. “One thing: you have to walk, and create the way by your walking; you will not find a ready-made path. It is not so cheap, to reach the ultimate realization of truth. You will have to create the path by walking yourself; the path is not ready-made, lying there and waiting for you. It is just like the sky: the birds fly, but they don’t leave any footprints. You cannot follow them; there are no footprints left behind”. - Osho Rajneesh, 1931 – 1990, Indian mystic and spiritual teacher.

 

59. “You should renounce mentally. Live the life of a householder in a spirit of detachment”. – Sri Ramakrishna Paramahamsa, 1836-1886, Indian mystic and Yogi.

 

60. “One conscious breath in and out is a meditation”. - Eckhart Tolle, author, who was listed by the Watkins Review in 2011 as the most spiritually influential person in the world.

 

61. “Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you”. – Amit Ray, Indian author and spiritual master.

 

62. “Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quit that is already there – buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day”. – Deepak Chopra, Indian American author, public speaker, and alternative medicine advocate.

 

63. “With the past I have nothing to do; nor with the future, I live now”.– Ralph Waldo Emerson;

American essayist and lecturer. Leader of the Transcendentalist movement of the mid 19^th-century.

64. “If every 8-year old in the world is taught meditation, we will eliminate violence from the world within one generation”. - Dalai Lama; important monk of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism.

 

65. “One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled in the art of living”. - Elizabeth Lesser; co-founder of Omega Institute in the United States.

 

66. “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, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet, and peace activist.

 

67. “Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent”. - Osho Rajneesh, 1931-1990, Indian mystic and spiritual teacher.

 

68. “Your worst enemy cannot harm you as much as your own thoughts, unguarded”. - – Sage Gautama Buddha circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE

 

69. “Your divine kingdom is within you”. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

70. “The powers of the mind are like the rays of the sun – when they are concentrated they illumine”.– Swami Vivekananda, chief disciple of the 19^th-century Indian mystic Ramakrishna.

 

71. “Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after”. – Henry David Thoreau 1817-1862, American author, philosopher and historian.

 

72. “Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without”. – Sage Gautama Buddha circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE

 

73. “The space between your thoughts is the window to the cosmic mind”. – Deepak Chopra, Indian American author, public speaker, and alternative medicine advocate.

 

74. “If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything; it is open to everything. In the beginners mind, there are many possibilities, in the expert’s mind there are few”. - Shunryu Suzuki, Zen monk and teacher who helped popularize Zen Buddhism in the United States.

 

75. “You cannot travel on the path until you become the path itself”. - Sage Gautama Buddha circa 563 BCE to 483 BCE

 

76. “Let your mind start a journey through a strange new world. Leave all thoughts of the world you knew before. Let your soul take you where you long to be. Close your eyes; let your spirit soar and you’ll live as you’ve never lived before. – Erich Seligmann Fromm 1900-1980; German social psychologist and humanistic philosopher.

 

77. “Your peace is your birthright”. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

78. “To understand the immeasurable, the mind must be extraordinarily quit, still”. – Jiddu Krishnamurti, speaker and writer on matters concerning humankind.

 

79. “Meditation can help us embrace our worries, our fear, our anger; and that is very healing. We let our natural capacity of healing do our work”. - Thich Nhat Hanh, Vietnamese Buddhist monk, teacher, author, poet, and peace activist.

 

80. “Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality”. – Richard Tiffany Gere 1949; American actor and activist.

 

81. “What is the common highway of all religions? Calmness, peace, and love. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

 

82. “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence therefore is not an act but a habit”. - Aristotle, Greek philosopher and scientist.

 

83. “To change our habits, we need to activate a part of the brain called ventromedial prefrontal cortex, which is simply the part of the brain that processes risk and fear. It is also has a role in decision-making and habits. This can be achieved through meditation and intense focus on the task. - Josef Hewber@Enn-Vibe>

 

84. “The first step in meditation is to keep your body steady, still, and straight”. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

85. “Mind is a door that leads you outside in the world; meditation is the door that leads you to your interiority- to the very innermost shrine of your being”. - Osho Rajneesh, 1931-1990, Indian mystic and spiritual teacher.

 

86. “An awakened heart is like a sky that pours light”. – Hafez (Khwaja Shams-ud-Din Muhammed Hafez- Shirazi). 14^th-century Persian poet who lauded the joys of love and wine but alos targeted religious hypocrisy.

 

87. “Sit straight. Let your body be like a statue. Stillness of the body, slow and rhythmic breathing accompanied by steadiness of look, will give you stillness of mind”. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

88. “Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it”. - Rumi (Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi) 1207-1273. Sufi mystic and Persian poet.

 

89. “One who has victory over his senses gains the power of distant vision, a divine quality that comes automatically to one who practices deep meditation”. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

90. “Mind only thinks meditation lives”. - Osho Rajneesh, 1931-1990, Indian mystic and spiritual teacher.

 

91. “As a person separates stones from the foodstuff before cooking, one should carefully separate unnecessary thoughts and emotions from one’s own life through meditation”. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

92. “You can’t make positive choices for the rest of your life without an environment that makes those choices easy, natural, and enjoyable”. - Deepak Chopra, Indian American author, public speaker, and alternative medicine advocate

 

93. “Jesus did not attend a university, and neither did Moses, nor Ramakrishna Paramahamsa. They went inside themselves. If you want to be highly realized, you have to practice sincerely. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

94. “It is doing some service to humanity, to amuse innocently. They know but little of society who think we can bear to be always employed, either in duties or meditation, without relaxation”. – Hannah More, 18^th Century English philanthropist and writer.

 

95. “Meditation is acceptance. It is the acceptance of life within us, without us an all around us. Acceptance of life is the beginning of human satisfaction”. - Sri Chinmoy, 1931- 2007, Indian spiritual master who taught meditation in the West.

 

96. “By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, and see what thy soul doth wear”. – George Herbert 1593–1633, Welsh poet and Anglican priest.

 

97. “The best reflections are when the wind, water and you are still”. – Peg Huxtable, writer of Wisdom of Words.

 

98. “Music without words means leaving the mind behind. And leaving the mind behind is meditation. And the source of all is sound. - Kabir 1398-1518; 15^th-century Indian mystic, whose writings influenced Hinduism’s Bhakti movement.

 

99. “You do not need to leave your room. Remain sitting at your table and listen. Don’t even listen, simply wait. Do not even wait, be quite still and solitary. The world will freely offer itself to you to be unmasked, it has no choice, it will roll in ecstasy at your feet. – Franz Kafka 1883-1924, German-language writer of novels and short stories.

 

100. “Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything in life has a purpose, there are no mistakes, no coincidences, all events are blessings, given to us to learn from. – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 1926-2004. Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies.

 

101. “Solitude is the audience chamber of God”. - Walter Savage Landor 1775 – 1864, English writer and poet.

 

102. “When I loved myself enough … I came to love being alone surrounded by silence, awed byits spell, listening to inner space”. - Kim McMillan ? - 1990

 

103. “A man should keep for himself a little back shop, all his own, quite unadulterated, in which he establishes his true freedom and chief place of seclusion and solitude. – Michel Eyquem de Montaigne 1533-1592, significant philosopher of the French Renaissance.

 

104. “There is no need to go to India or anywhere else to find peace. You will find that deep place of silence right in your room, your garden or even in your bathtub. – Elizabeth Kubler-Ross 1926 – 2004, Swiss-American psychiatrist and pioneer in near-death studies.

 

105. “Do not be hasty or lazy in your practice. Slow and steady wins the race. Meditate! Practice! Surely one day you will get perfection”. - Paramahamsa Hariharananda - Kriya Yoga Master

 

106. “As fragrance abides in the flower. As the reflection is within the mirror. So doth thy Lord abide within thee; why search Him without”? - Guru Nanak 1469 – 1539, founder of Sikhism.

 

107. “Solitude is an ocean with wonderful places hidden in its depth”. – Isaac of Nineveh, ca 600-700AD, Syriac Christian Bishop.

 

108. “Curb your senses and your mind and see the Lord within your heart”. – Shri Adi Shankaracharya 788 – 820, Indian Philosopher and theologian who is accredited with consolidating the Advaita Vedanta doctrine.

 

109. “In the inner stillness where meditation leads, the Spirit secretly anoints the soul and heals our deepest wounds”. – St. John of the Cross, 1542-1491, Spanish mystic and Roman Catholic Saint.

 

110. “The more we can give in our silent prayer, the more we can give in our active life”. – Mother Teresa, 1910-1997, Roman Catholic religious sister and missionary in Calcutta.

 

111. "The reason we come away so cold from reading the word is, because we do not warm ourselves at the fire of meditation."  - Thomas Watson, 1620-1686, English, nonconformist, Puritan preacher and author.

 

112. The sweet spices of divine works must be beaten to powder by meditation, and then laid up in the cabinet of our memories." – Abraham Wright, 1611-1690, was an English theological writer and deacon.

 

113. “ What is the reason there is so much preaching and so little practice? For want of meditation...Constant thoughts are operative, and musing makes the fire burn. Green wood is not kindled by a flash or spark, but by constant blowing."  - Thomas Manton, 162-1677, English Puritan clergyman.