True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters. – Paramananda

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

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

He sat thus, lost in meditation, thinking Om, his soul as the arrow directed at Brahman. – Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha