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Experience yourself in silence. – Erich Schiffmann

Meditating means bringing the mind back to something again and again. Thus, we all meditate, but unless we direct it in some way, we meditate on ourselves and on our own problems, reinforcing our self-clinging. – Yeshe Dorje

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer. – Dean Koontz

Asanas attune the body to meditation, just as a guitar is tuned before a performance. – Author Unknown

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Everything can become a meditation if you live it totally and intensely. And then your life becomes whole. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Meditation simply means a discipline that makes you capable of being aloof and detached from your mind. So even if the mind is sick, your consciousness is never sick. Even if your mind is going crazy, you are just witnessing it. Mind is only a machine. You are not. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Meditation is not growth of the ego, it is death of the ego. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind. – Ramana Maharshi

Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether. – Surya Singer

[I]t can feel as if the entire body has dropped away or has become transparent, as if its substance were in some way erased. It can feel as if there is nothing but breath flowing freely across all the boundaries of the body. – Jon Kabat-Zinn, Full Catastrophe Living: Using the Wisdom of Your Body and Mind

A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. – Johannes Tauler

Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit—the pleasure of simply being. – Paul Wilson

Mindfulness is about falling awake rather than asleep. – Shamash Alidina

An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment. – Jane Austen, Persuasion

Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. – SwāmÄ« Rāma

[S]tand aside and watch the working of the divine power in yourself. – Sri Aurobindo

Every soul innately yearns for stillness, for a space, a garden where we can till, sow, reap, and rest, and by doing so come to a deeper sense of self and our place in the universe. Silence is not an absence but a presence. – Anne D. LeClaire

[T]hat is the true function of meditation: to create a space in you where you can be rich, infinitely rich, utterly peaceful, absolutely ecstatic. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

The process of meditation does not take you to some new world; it only introduces you to the world where you have been for lives upon lives. The process of meditation does not add anything to you; it only takes away what is wrong, cuts it away, sheds it off. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh