Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It's a way of entering into the quiet that's already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day.
~ Deepak Chopra
Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in
the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare." ~ Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
The flowering of love is meditation. ~ Jiddu Krishnamurti
The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
~ Milarepa
Meditation is the soul's perspective glass. ~ Owen Felltham
Reading makes a full man, meditation a profound man, discourse a clear man. ~ Benjamin Franklin
The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation,
and the more successfully will he practice it. ~ James Allen
Peace can be reached through meditation on the knowledge which dreams give. Peace can also be reached through concentration upon that which is dearest to the heart."
~ Patanjali
Sleep is the best meditation. ~ Dalai Lama
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation"
~ Walter Bagehot
I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him. ~
George Harrison
Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.
Eknath Easwaran
A man of meditation is happy, not for an hour or a day, but quite round the circle of
all his years.
~ Isaac Taylor
What we have to learn, in both meditation and in life, is to be free of attachment to the good experiences, and free of aversion to the negative ones.
~ Sogyal Rinpoche
Make your judgment trustworthy by trusting it. Cultivate regular periods of silence and meditation. The best time to build judgment is in solitude, when you can think out things for yourself without the probability of interruption.
~ Grenville Kleiser
It is not the number of books you read, nor the variety of sermons you hear, nor the amount of religious conversation in which you mix, but it is the frequency and earnestness with which you meditate on these things till the truth in them becomes your own and part of your being, that ensures your growth.
~ Frederick William Robertson
Writing is an escape from a world that crowds me. I like being alone in a room.
It's almost a form of meditation- an investigation of my own life.
It has nothing to do with "I've got to get another play" ~ Neil Simon
We could say that meditation doesn't have a reason or doesn't have a purpose. In this respect it's unlike almost all other things we do except perhaps making music and dancing. When we make music we don't do it in order to reach a certain point, such as the end of the composition. If that were the purpose of music then obviously the fastest players would be the best. Also, when we are dancing we are not aiming to arrive at a particular place on the floor as in a journey. When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment."
~ Alan Watts
Pleased rather with some soft ideal scene,
The work of Fancy, or some happy tone
Of meditation, slipping in between
The beauty coming and the beauty gone.
~ William Wordsworth
They say that these are not the best of times
But they're the only times I've ever known
And I believe there is a time for meditation
In cathedrals of our own. ~ Billy Joel
One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.
~ Muhammad
Prayer is when you talk to God; meditation is when you listen to God.
~ Diana Robinson