The practice of reflective meditation, which consists of holding certain ideas in the mind long enough to enable them to form emotional connections, tends to break up the crust of habit and to create a new will. – Walter M. Horton

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

The only way to read a book of aphorisms without being bored is to open it at random and, having found something that interests you, close the book and meditate. – Prince Charles-Joseph de Ligne, 1796