While quotes about meditation won't replace your meditation practice, they can serve as inspiration. Here are 50 meditation quotes that will take you one step closer to achieving a calm mind.

25. “So long as your desire to explore is greater than your desire to not screw up, you’re on the right track.” —Ed Helms 26. “If I must give any of you advice it would be to say yes.

Taming Your Lower Mind In many ways, growing up is a process of developing our higher mind and learning how to use our lower mind and how to over-ride our lower mind, depending on the circumstances.

All this mind wandering is not good for us. “A wandering mind is an unhappy mind,” according to Harvard researchers Matt Killingsworth, PhD, and Daniel Gilbert, PhD, (2010).

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Notice your thoughts and emotions. If your mind is racing or you feel anxious and distracted, that’s fine. “We’re not trying to change anything with mindfulness,” Lingo says.