One of the most exciting habits that I formed during the covid-19 pandemic lockdown is meditation. I start the day by meditating with the Calm Mental Health App which has daily guided meditations (Daily Calm with Tamara Levitt, Daily Trip with Jeff Warren, and Daily Jay with Jay Shetty), Morning Wake-Up stretch with Christian Slomka, curated sleep tracks, and other great contents. It has been a great experience as meditating helps in paying attention to your breathing, staying focused and grounded.
Meditation is a practice in which an individual uses a technique – such as mindfulness, or focusing the mind on a particular object, thought, or activity – to train attention and awareness, and achieve a mentally clear and emotionally calm, and stable state. 1
Here are 30 great quotes on meditation:
- Meditation is the only intentional, systematic human activity which at bottom is about not trying to improve yourself or get anywhere else, but simply to realize where you already are. – Jon Kabat-Zinn, Wherever You Go, There You Are
- If your mind is empty, it is always ready for anything, it is open to everything. In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s mind there are few. – Shunryu Suzuki
- Meditation is an invitation to notice when we reach our limit and to not get carried away by hope and fear. Through meditation, we’re able to see clearly what’s going on with our thoughts and emotions, and we can also let them go. – Pema Chodron, When Things Fall Apart
- Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight. – Ajahn Brahm
- When meditation is mastered, The mind is unwavering like the Flame of a lamp in a windless place. – Bhagavad Gita
- 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
- Before speaking, consider whether it is an improvement upon silence – Swami Kripalvanadaji
- Meditation is choosing not to engage in the drama of mind but elevating the mind to its highest potential. – Amit Ray
- Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul. – Marcus Aurelius
- The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it. – Dalai Lama.
- Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment. – Alan Watts
- Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality. – Thich Nhat Hanh
- Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. -Pema Chödrön
- Thirty minutes of anything that works for you: exercise, meditation, creative expression, affection, etc. Because you experience stress every day, you have to build completing the cycle into every day. Make it a priority, like your life depends on it. Because it does. – Emily Nagoski Ph.D. & Amelia Nagoski DMA, Burnout: The Secret to Unlocking the Stress Cycle
- If you meditate regularly, even when you don’t feel like it, you will make great gains, for it will allow you to see how your thoughts impose limits on you. Your resistances to meditation are your mental prisons in miniature. – Ram Dass
- Having come to realize in the first stage of meditation that we are not our bodies, in the second stage we make an even more astounding discovery; we are not our minds either.- Eknath Easwaran
- Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there. – Deepack Chopra
- 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. – Hugh Jackman
- Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. – Voltaire
- Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. – Jeremy Taylor
- Meditation is to be aware of every thought and of every feeling, never to say it is right or wrong, but just to watch it and move with it. In that watching, you begin to understand the whole movement of thought and feeling. And out of this awareness comes silence. – Jiddu Krishnamurti
- Praying is talking to the Universe. Meditation is listening to it. – Paulo Coelho
- Within you there is a stillness and sanctuary to which you can retreat at any time and be yourself. –Hermann Hesse
- Meditation is not you going through thoughts – it’s letting thoughts go through you. – Naval Ravikant
- Furthermore, as muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone, it could be argued that those who sit quietly and do nothing are making one of the best possible contributions to a world in turmoil. – Alan Watts
- The first recipe for happiness is: to avoid too lengthy meditation on the past. – André Maurois
- Whether you’re keeping a journal or writing as a meditation, it’s the same thing. What’s important is you’re having a relationship with your mind. – Natalie Goldberg
- When your attention moves into the Now, there is an alertness. It is as if you were waking up from a dream, the dream of thought, the dream of past and future. Such clarity, such simplicity. No room for problem-making. Just this moment as it is. – Eckhart Tolle
- Meditation is a serious intention of the mind whereby we come to search out the truth, and settle it upon the heart. –Thomas Hooker
All the best in your quest to get better. Don’t Settle: Live with Passion.
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