Quiet the mind, and the soul will speak. – Ma Jaya Sati Bhagavati

[M]ental peace is not meditation. Meditation is the flight beyond the mind. It has nothing to do with mental peace. – Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

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

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