Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation. and honor the reward of action.

Francis Quarles

Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.

Jeremy Taylor

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.

Sri Chinmoy

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

No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.

Walter Bagehot

When one meditates, one goes to the root of one's existence; only then will one see the fruit of the meditation - in other words - NO ROOT, NO FRUIT and KNOW ROOT, KNOW FRUIT.

Gregory Ramkissoon

What's encouraging about meditation is that even if we shut down, we can no longer shut down in ignorance. We see very clearly that we're closing off. That in itself begins to illuminate the darkness of ignorance.

Pema Chodron

I'm still in constant pain. But meditation makes the pain more bearable. It's taught me how to live with it and to find ways to better manage it.

Imogene Benson

What I like so very much about this meditation is that you can take what you've learned and go about your business, ... I can use those classroom techniques anywhere, which is ideal for me as a filmmaker.

David Lynch

It's totally changing your body chemistry. It's a very healthy thing to do. It is said that 15 minutes of laughter is worth six hours of meditation.

Jan Karon

One hour's meditation on the work of the Creator is better than seventy years of prayer.

Abu Muhammad

Meditation gives me the energy and the strength to do all the things I do in my life. And my life is very full.

Carmella Hilbert

In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil.

Patanjali

Success and failure are both difficult to endure. Along with success come drugs, divorce, fornication, bullying, travel, meditation, medication, depression, neurosis and suicide. With failure comes failure.

Joseph Heller

Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.

William Cowper

When you sing it in meditation technique it harmonizes your own life -- you make the connection with things in your life that are near and dear to you.

Doug White

[They were also told to exercise daily.] It was mostly walking, ... We asked them to do yoga and meditation.

Dean Ornish

The flowering of love is meditation.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

The college planted a tree in Greg's memory and put in a meditation garden in his honor.

Debra Reeves

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

Owen Felltham

Leave them to me. Do not disturb my meditation.

David Prowse

I believe that painting should come through the avenues of meditation rather than the canals of action.

Mark Tobey

Meditation... disolves the mind. It erases itself. Throws the ego out on its big brittle ass.

Tom Robbins

The human mind cannot create anything. It produces nothing until after having been fertilized by experience and meditation; its acquisitions are the gems of its production.

George louis Leclerc De Buffon

In the space which thought creates around itself there is no love. This space divides man from man, and in it is all the becoming, the battle of life, the agony and fear. Meditation is the ending of this space, the ending of the me.

Krishnamurti

Rhythm is the true meditation. You're there on the beat, or you're not there. When you get into a trance, you forget all about time and you get lost.

Javier Garcia

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

Eknath Easwaran