Passing through the fire of meditation, everything that is not your authentic reality, everything that is borrowed, will be burned away. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

You should sit in meditation for twenty minutes a day, unless you are too busy — then you should sit for an hour. – Author Unknown

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

If you ask Zen people they will say; tea is not something that you pour with unawareness and drink like any other drink. It is not a drink, it is meditation; it is prayer. So they listen to the kettle creating a melody, and in that listening they become more silent, more alert. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh