Unbiased selection of 101 best meditation quotes of the world is a challenge. There are thousands of meditation quotes to inspire us. Some are very ancient, and some are the most modern. Some are from the great masters of the past like Buddha, Lao Tzu, Rumi, St Francis of Assisi, Mahatma Gandhi, Mother Theresa and some are from the leaders of the current age like Amit Ray, Dalai Lama, S.N. Goenka, Eckhart Tolle, Thich Nhat Hanh, Deepak Chopra, Richard Bach, Sharon Salzberg, Oprah Winfrey, Byron Katie, Tara Brach, Jon Kabat-Zinn and others.
In ranking the quotes, we have used double-blind review and ranking process, which means that the identities of both the author of the quote and the reviewers ranking are kept hidden, and vice versa, throughout. In this ranking process, we have used about 500 meditation quotes and reviewed and ranked by different people across the world. This ranking is a dynamic system, updates are done on monthly basis. The current raking of the quotes is as follows:
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“Meditation is a way for nourishing and blossoming the divinity within you.” – Amit Ray
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“Meditate, Visualize and Create your own reality and the universe will simply reflect back to you.” – Amit Ray
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“All that we are is the result of what we have thought. The mind is everything. What we think we become” – Gautama Buddha
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“Your greatest awakening comes, when you are aware about your infinite nature.” – Amit Ray
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“In a gentle way, you can shake the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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“Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction.” – Amit Ray
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“The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate.” – Oprah Winfrey
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“Peace doesn’t require two people; it requires only one. It has to be you. The problem begins and ends there.” – Byron Katie
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“Meditation works in many layers. It works in our genes, in our DNA.” – Amit Ray
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“Life is a mystery- mystery of beauty, bliss and divinity. Meditation is the art of unfolding that mystery.” – Amit Ray
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“You’re always free to change your mind and choose a different future, or a different past.” – Richard Bach
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“Meditation is the artwork of awakening the divine within you.” – Amit Ray
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“Meditation is experiencing the life not just from the surface but from the source.” – Amit Ray
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“The mind is definitely something that can be transformed, and meditation is a means to transform it.” – Dalai Lama
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“There are three things extremely hard: steel, a diamond, and to know one’s self.” – Benjamin Franklin
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“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson
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“Meditation is allowing the thinking machine to take rest and in that restfulness eternity arises.” – Amit Ray
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“When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.” – Lao Tzu
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“Meditation is making every breath; a kind breath, a compassionate breath and a loving breath.” – Amit Ray
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“Learn to be calm and you will always be happy.” – Paramahansa Yogananda
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“You may never know what results come of your actions, but if you do nothing, there will be no results.” – Mahatma Gandhi
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“If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.” – Amit Ray
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“Teach this triple truth to all: A generous heart, kind speech, and a life of service and compassion are the things which renew humanity.” – Gautama Buddha
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“You are never alone. You are eternally connected with every one.” – Amit Ray
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“Meditation is not evasion; it is a serene encounter with reality.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“Be like a lotus. Let the beauty of your heart speak. Be grateful to the mud, water, air and the light.” – Amit Ray
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“If we have no peace, it is because we have forgotten that we belong to each other.” – Mother Teresa
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“Thousands of candles can be lit from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.” – Gautama Buddha
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“You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.” – Amit Ray
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“To really do nothing, with perfection, is as difficult as doing everything.” – Alan Watts
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“You have a treasure within you that is infinitely greater than anything the world can offer.” – Eckhart Tolle
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“We ourselves feel that what we are doing is just a drop in the ocean. But the ocean would be less because of that missing drop.” – Mother Teresa
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“Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.” – Eckhart Tolle
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“Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.” – Thich Nhat Hanh
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“You will never be punished for your anger. You will only be punished by your anger.” – Gautama Buddha
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“Beautify your inner dialog. Beautify your inner world with love light and compassion. Life will be beautiful.” – Amit Ray
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“Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another.” – Jon Kabat-Zinn
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“Your thoughts are your message to the world. Just as the rays are the messages of the Sun.” – Amit Ray
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“The key to growth is the introduction of higher dimensions of consciousness into our awareness.” – Lao Tzu
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“Mind is a flexible mirror; adjust it, to see a better world.” – Amit Ray
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“However many holy words you read, however many you speak, what good will they do you If you do not act on upon them?” – Gautama Buddha
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“Empty your mind, be formless. Shapeless, like water.” – Bruce Lee
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“Truth is the offspring of silence and meditation.” – Isaac Newton
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“God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.” – Amit Ray
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“Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.” – Sharon Salzberg
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“Peace is the music of every heart. Our glory lies in understanding, listening and honoring that music.” – Amit Ray
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“Meditation is not a withdrawal from life. Meditation is a process of understanding oneself.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“If you are driven by fear, anger or pride nature will force you to compete. If you are guided by courage, awareness, tranquility and peace nature will serve you.” – Amit Ray
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“We all are so deeply interconnected; we have no option but to love all.” – Amit Ray
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“Don’t seek, don’t search, don’t ask, don’t knock, don’t demand – relax.” – Osho
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“Your goal is not to battle with the mind, but to witness the mind.” – Swami Muktananda
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“Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already.” – Pema Chordron
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“When the Sun of compassion arises darkness evaporates and the singing birds come from nowhere.” – Amit Ray
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“If there is no meditation, then you are like a blind man in a world of great beauty, light and colour.” – Jiddu Krishnamurti
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“There is only one place to find real peace, real harmony. That place is within.” – S.N. Goenka
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“Kindness has no religion. It is like an open sky.” – Amit Ray
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“Praying is talking to the Universe. Meditation is listening to it.” – Paulo Coelho
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“Looking at beauty in the world, is the first step of purifying the mind.” – Amit Ray
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“The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other’s life.” – Richard Bach
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“Imperfection is not our personal problem – it is a natural part of existing.” – Tara Brach
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“Perfect prayer does not consist in many words,pure intention raises the heart to that supreme Power. Shut your eyes, shut your mouth, and open your heart. This is the golden rule of prayer.” – Amit Ray
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“Beauty is the purest feeling of the soul. Beauty arises when soul is satisfied.” – Amit Ray
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“Meditation is all about connecting with your soul.” – Deepak Chopra
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“Life is simple. Everything happens for you, not to you. Everything happens at exactly the right moment.” – Byron Katie
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“You don’t love someone because they’re perfect, you love them in spite of the fact that they’re not.” – Jodi Picoult
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“We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship.” – C.S. Lewis
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“Life throws challenges and every challenge comes with rainbows and lights to conquer it.” – Amit Ray
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“Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately.” – Swami Rama
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“No matter what you go through in life, no matter how many disappointments you suffer, your value in God’s eyes always remains the same.” – Joel Osteen
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“The highest ecstasy is the attention at its fullest.” – Simone Weil
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“When the petals of the heart unfold fragrance spreads across the valley.” – Amit Ray
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“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.” – Mother Theresa
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“In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.” – Deepak Chopra
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“First set a strong and clear inner voice and then do all that you want to achieve and the door will be opened.” – Amit Ray
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“The timeless in you is aware of life’s timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today’s memory and tomorrow is today’s dream.” – Khalil Gibran
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“So what is a good meditator? The one who meditates.” – Allan Lokos
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“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.” – Sarah Dessen
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“Without self-knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.” – George Gurdjieff
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“See life and feel its pulses with the eyes of a compassionate mother.” – Amit Ray
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“I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.” – Khalil Gibran
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“Fish don’t hold the sacred liquid in cups! They swim the huge fluid freedom.” – Rumi
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“Just as a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, so the disciplined mind of a meditator remains steady in meditation on the self.” – Bhagavad Gita .
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“The light of the body is the eye: if therefore your eye be single, your whole body shall be full of light.” – Matthew .
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“Dwell in peace in the home of your own being, and the Messenger of Death will not be able to touch you.” – Guru Nanak
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“Happy he stands, happy he sits, happy sleeps, and happy he comes and goes. Happy he speaks and happy he eats. This is the life of a man at peace.” – Ashtavakra Gita
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“The truth is, once you learn how to die, you learn how to live.” – Mitch Albom
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“Life is not a battle to win but a melody to sing.” – Amit Ray
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“There comes a time in every life when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your heart.” – Sarah Dessen
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“Wake up and live your life. Sing the melody of your soul.” – Amit Ray
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“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart.” – Sarah Dessen
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“The only time we waste is the time we spend thinking we are alone.” – Mitch Albom
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“The belief that unhappiness is selfless and happiness is selfish is misguided.” – Gretchen Rubin
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“Give space to life. Give time to sprout your potential. There are infinite possibilities.” – Amit Ray
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“There are no random acts. We are all connected. You can no more separate one life from another.” – Mitch Albom
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“Challenges are gifts that force us to search for a new center of gravity. Don’t fight them. Just find a new way to stand.” – Oprah Winfrey
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“Hold your head up high, knowing that God is in control and he has a great plan and purpose for your life.” – Joel Osteen
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“Sometimes I succeed, sometimes I fail, but every day is a clean slate and a fresh opportunity” – Gretchen Rubin
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“Put your heart, mind, intellect, and soul even to your smallest acts. This is the secret of success.” – Swami Sivananda
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“Let gratitude be the pillow upon which you kneel to say your nightly prayer. ” – Maya Angelou
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“Pain is not wrong. Reacting to pain as wrong initiates the trance of unworthiness.” – Tara Brach
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“And suddenly you realize you are in every dot of the universe vanishing and arising again.” – Amit Ray
