| Author |
Quotes |
| Bhagavad Gita | Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart. |
| Buddha | Meditation brings wisdom; lack of meditation leaves ignorance. Know well what leads you forward and what hold you back, and choose the path that leads to wisdom. |
| Eknath Easwaran | Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose. |
| Jean Arp | Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation. |
| Jeremy Taylor | Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit. |
| Patanjali | In deep meditation the flow of concentration is continuous like the flow of oil. |
| Paul Hamilton Hayne | Happy the heart that keeps its twilight hour, And, in the depths of heavenly peace reclined, Loves to commune with thoughts of tender power,-- A shining Jacob's-ladder of the mind! |
| Shvetashvatara Upanishad | Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation. |
| Sivananda | Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity. |
| William Shakespeare | But I might see young Cupid's fiery shaft Quenched in the chaste beams of the wat'ry moon, And the imperial vot'ress passed on, In maiden meditation, fancy-free. |
| William Shakespeare | He doth entreat your grace, my noble lord, To visit him to-morrow or next day, He is within, with two right reverend fathers, Divinely bent to meditation, And in no worldly suits would he be moved To draw him from his holy exercise. |
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