Meditations Quotes

“God is whispering in your heart, in the whole existence, just tune your ears.”
― Amit Ray, Meditation: Insights and Inspirations

“When people injure you, ask yourself what good or harm they thought would come of it. If you understand that, you'll feel sympathy rather than outrage or anger. Your sense of good and evil may be the same as theirs, or near it, in which case you have to excuse them. Or your sense of good and evil may differ from theirs. In which case they're misguided and deserve your compassion. Is that so hard?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“In pale moonlight / the wisteria's scent / comes from far away.”
― Yosa Buson

“40. The gods either have power or they have not. If they have not, why pray to them? If they have, then instead of praying to be granted or spared such-and-such a thing, why not rather pray to be delivered from dreading it, or lusting for it, or grieving over it? Clearly, if they can help a man at all, they can help him in this way. You will say, perhaps, ‘But all that is something they have put in my own power.’ Then surely it were better to use your power and be a free man, than to hanker like a slave and a beggar for something that is not in your power. Besides, who told you the gods never lend their aid even towards things that do lie in our own power? Begin praying in this way, and you will see. Where another man prays ‘Grant that I may possess this woman,’ let your own prayer be, ‘Grant that I may not lust to possess her.’ Where he prays, ‘Grant me to be rid of such-and-such a one,’ you pray, ‘Take from me my desire to be rid of him.’ Where he begs, ‘Spare me the loss of my precious child,’ beg rather to be delivered from the terror of losing him. In short, give your petitions a turn in this direction, and see what comes.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“All you need are these: certainty of judgment in the present moment; action for the common good in the present moment; and an attitude of gratitude in the present moment for anything that comes your way.”
― Ryan Holiday, The Daily Stoic: 366 Meditations on Wisdom, Perseverance, and the Art of Living

“When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.”
― Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Cosmic Ordering Meditation

“The moon glows on the river, wind rustles the pines.
Long night clear evening--what are they for?”
― Ueda Akinari, Tales of Moonlight and Rain

“One can observe that such changes in the breath are the direct result of your reaction to thoughts. If you can simply dismiss the thoughts by giving them no value then the breathing will find its own medium and become subtle.”
― Stephen Richards, The Ultimate Cosmic Ordering Meditation

“Everything harmonizes with me which is harmonious to thee, O Universe. Nothing for me is too early nor too late, which is in due time for thee. Everything is fruit to me which thy season brings, O Nature: from thee are all things, in thee are all things, to thee all things return.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditation Marcus Aurelius: Thoughts & Life Lessons of Wise Emperor

“Use the setback to practice other virtues.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Whatever anyone does or says, I must be a good man. It is as if an emerald, or gold or purple, were always saying: 'Whatever anyone does or says, I must be an emerald and keep my own colour.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“To my soul: Are you ever going to achieve goodness? Ever going to be simple, whole and naked--as plain to see as the body that contains you?”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Affect not to set out your thoughts with curious neat language. Be neither a great talker, nor a great undertaker; be one who for his word or actions needs neither an oath, nor any man to be a witness.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Marcus Aurelius

“When another blames you or hates you, or when men say
anything injurious about you, approach their poor souls,
penetrate within, and see what kind of men they are. You will
discover that there is no reason to be concerned that these men
have this or that opinion about you.”
― Marcus Aurelius

“O nada pueden los dioses o tienen poder. Si efectivamente no tienen poder ¿Por qué suplicas? Y si lo tienen, ¿Por qué no les pides precisamente que te concedan el no temer nada de eso ni desear nada de eso, ni afligirte por ninguna de esas cosas, antes que pedirles que no sobrevenga o sobrevenga alguna de esas cosas?
Porque sin duda, si pueden colaborar con los hombres tambien en eso pueden colaborar. Pero posiblemente dirás "En mis manos los dioses depositaron esas cosas" Entonces ¿No es mejor usar lo que está en tus manos con libertad que disputar con esclavitud y torpeza con lo que no depende de ti?¿Y quién te ha dicho que los dioses no cooperan tampoco en las cosas que dependen de nosotros? Empieza, pues a suplicarles acerca de esas cosas y verás.
Este les pide: ¿Como conseguire acostarme con aquellla? / ¿Como dejar de desear acostarme con aquella?
¿Como me puedo librar de este individuo? / Como no desear librarme de el?
¿Como no perder mi hijito? / Como no sentir miedo a perderlo? En suma
cambia tus suplicas en este sentido y observa los resultados”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“I am constantly reflecting back on how I’ve done things and how those things have turned out. I like to think about the cause and effect of my decisions and the way that I have lived. Therefore, I am constantly assessing and evolving. It has been important to look back and say, “This caused that, so don’t do that again.” Or, “This is helping move you forward in a nice trajectory; keep that up.”
― Eric Overby

“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength." - Meditations”
― Marcus Arelius

“Some things nature is indifferent to; if it privileged one over the other it would hardly have created both. And if we want to follow nature, to be of one mind with it, we need to share its indefference. To privilege pleasure over pain-life over death,fame over anonimity-is clearly blasphemous. Nature certainly doesn't.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Some things nature is indifferent to; if it privileged one over the other it would hardly have created both. And if we want to follow nature, to be of one mind with it, we need to share its indifference. To privilege pleasure over pain-life over death, fame over anonymity-is clearly blasphemous. Nature certainly doesn't.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditation

“Some things nature is indifferent to; if it privileged one over the other it would hardly have created both. And if we want to follow nature, to be of one mind with it, we need to share its indifference. To privilege pleasure over pain-life over death, fame over anonymity-is clearly blasphemous. Nature certainly doesn't”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“Evolution means getting closer to God, and that's why, among other things, we meditate every day.”
― Caro Briones, The Extraterrestrial Girl

“Everything that makes you forget yourself is a meditation for you!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“The idle business of show, plays on the stage, flocks of sheep, herds, exercises with spears, a bone cast to little dogs, a bit of bread into fish-ponds, labourings of ants and burden-carrying, runnings about of frightened little mice, puppets pulled by strings- all alike. It is thy duty then in the midst of such things to show good humour and not a proud air; to understand however that every man is worth just so much as the things are worth about which he busies himself.”
― Markus Aurelius

“It is not attachment that is the cause of all suffering in the world; it is ignorance that is the cause of suffering in the world. It is the ignorance of knowing that the world is self and that self appears differentiated to itself so not to be by itself and this for the singular purpose of self-companionship, self-friendship, self-love. Knowing this is salvation. Knowing this is bliss. For indeed; the purpose of self - the meaning of life - is nothing else but love; sweet indelible love.”
― Wald Wassermann

“Anything that requires absolute attention becomes a meditation.”
― Donna Goddard, Dance: A Spiritual Affair

“Walking alone through nature can be meditative.”
― Shree Shambav, Twenty + One - 21 Short Stories

“Letting go of painful memories warms up the body, mind, and spirit”
― Dr.Purushothaman Kollam

“The mind is for meditations.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita

“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth”
― Marcus Aurelius

“Even if you were destined to live three thousand years, or ten times that long, nevertheless remember that no one loses any life other than the one he lives, or lives any life other than the one he loses. It follows that the longest and the shortest lives are brought to the same state. The present moment is equal for all; so what is passing is equal also; the loss therefore turns out to be the merest fragment of time. No one can lose either the past or the future — how could anyone be deprived of what he does not possess?”
― Marcus Aurelious