Sri Sri Ravi Shankar Quotes about Meditation

Love is seeing God in the person next to us, and meditation is seeing God within us.

Meditation is the only way you can transcend the negative thoughts, and then positive thoughts will come spontaneously & automatically.

Mind without agitation is meditation. Mind in the present moment is meditation. Mind that has no hesitation, no anticipation is meditation. Mind that has come back home, to the source, is meditation. Mind that becomes no mind is meditation.

To love is to see the divine in the person beside us, and to meditate is to see the divine within us.

If we sit deep in meditation, the glow within the body will brighten, and will expand and spread outside. That is Devi Puja

The Divine rejoices in your being happy. God, or the Creation, is so happy when you are happy. When you dance, sing, and jump up and down happily, that is true prayer, that is true meditation. Meditation is a fountain of joy, an ecstasy; and Divine enjoys that more. Divine is not fond of your suffering.

In meditation, healing can happen. When the mind is calm, alert and totally contented, then it is like a laser beam - it is very powerful and healing can happen.

A plant has to be watered but when it grows into a tree, it is no longer necessary. Similarly, if the inner consciousness becomes stronger, all these vikaar (distortions) get erased. Vishranti vikar mita (Deep rest removes negativity). There is no rest deeper than meditation

Service brings merit, merit allows you to go deeper in meditation, meditation brings back your smile.

Meditate. A few minutes of deep meditation will connect you with the ocean of intuition deep within you.

In your very nature, in the depth of your mind, there is omnipresence, omnipotence, omniscience. All knowledge is already in the depth of your consciousness, of your mind.

In Samadhi, that very deep state of meditation, you are given energy and long-lasting bliss. It carries you higher and higher until your very presence radiates love

In the East they say suffering is avoidable and not necessary. Life is bliss! You know why? This is because wisdom, yoga and meditation are ways to avoid suffering which has not yet come.

If you are not having good experiences in meditation, then do more seva you will gain merit and your meditation will be deeper. When you bring some relief or freedom to someone through seva, good vibrations and blessings come to you

Faith is the subject of the head. Devotion is the subject of the heart and meditation connects both.

When you are happy time appears shorter, when you are sad time appears longer. And in meditation we transcend time!

Meditation is not 'going somewhere;' it's diving deep here, this moment.

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

Dissolving the name is awareness. Dissolving the form is meditation. The world is name and form. Bliss transcends name and form.

Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer.

A mind in the present moment is meditation.