Meditation is the only magic that can help you to be free from the mind, can help you to be free from yourself, your past and all the burden of the past. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Meditation does not answer the questions of the mind, but it dissolves the very mind which creates many questions and confusion in our life. – Author Unknown
With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts. – Mary Pipher
If you want to possess things—money; if you want to possess yourself—meditation. And if you possess yourself, money loses all meaning. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
There is only one meditation—the rigorous refusal to harbor thoughts. – Nisargadatta Maharaj
Your mind is a constant traffic of thoughts, and it is always rush hour, day in, day out. Meditation means to watch the movement of thoughts in the mind. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
By and by… there are more and more gaps of silence. Through those gaps, windows will open to the divine. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Meditation is that exercise of the mind by which it recalls a known truth. – George Horne
Serenity is the flavor of meditation… – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
It is sometimes said that the first stages of the meditation process are the most difficult. The first distraction is the physical body. Sometimes there is real pain in sitting, and sometimes the ego just tries to distract us by creating itches we will want to scratch. – Sarasvati Buhrman
We live, in fact, in a world starved for solitude, silence, and private: and therefore starved for meditation and true friendship. – C.S. Lewis
Meditation is nothing but coming to terms with your inner emptiness: recognizing it, not escaping; living through it, not escaping; being through it, not escaping. Then suddenly the emptiness becomes the fullness of life. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along. – Allan Lokos
Through meditation, the Higher Self is seen. – Bhagavad Gita
The kingdom of God is just behind the darkness of closed eyes, and the first gate that opens to it is your peace. – Paramahansa Yogananda
As a mighty river which when properly harnessed by dams and canals, creates a vast reservoir of water, prevents famine and provides abundant power for industry; so also the mind, when controlled, provides a reservoir of peace and generates abundant energy for the human uplift. – B.K.S. Iyengar
Your love will deepen as your meditation deepens, and vice-versa: as your meditation blossoms, your love will also blossom. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
Meditation is not spacing-out or running away. In fact, it is being totally honest with ourselves. – Kathleen McDonald
Just to be and not be a person is the whole art of meditation, the whole art of inner ecstasy. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh
