Quote by Alan Watts
We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and num

We are sick with fascination for the useful tools of names and numbers, of symbols, signs, conceptions and ideas. Meditation is therefore the art of suspending verbal and symbolic thinking for a time, somewhat as a courteous audience will stop talking when a concert is about to begin. – Alan Watts

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Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there—buried under the 50,000 thoughts the average person thinks every day. – Deepak Chopra

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A racing mind that reacts sensitively to little things indicates thinking that has lost its spiritual strength. Meditation restores that power. – Author Unknown

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