Health, a light body, freedom from cravings, a glowing skin, sonorous voice, fragrance of body: these signs indicate progress in the practice of meditation.
Shvetashvatara Upanishad
Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence. Day after day he invents machines and devices that increase noise and distract humanity from the essence of life, contemplation, meditation... Tooting, howling, screeching, booming, crashing, whistling, grinding, and trilling bolster his ego. His anxiety subsides. His inhuman void spreads monstrously like a gray vegetation.
Jean Arp
Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation the source of strength is one's self. When one prays he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.
Madame Chiang Kai-Shek
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
Jeremy Taylor
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
Sivananda
Seek truth in meditation, not in moldy books. Look in the sky to find the moon, not in the pond
Persian proverb
Regular meditation opens the avenues of intuitional knowledge, makes the mind calm and steady, awakens an ecstatic feeling, and brings the practitioner in contact with the source of his/her very being
Swami Sivananda
When you meditate, the silence of the senses illumines the presence of God within
Gurumayi Chidvilasananda
As meditation deepens, complusions, cravings and fits of emotion begin to lose their power to dictate our behavior
Eknath Easwaran
When we raise ourselves through meditation to what unites us with the spirit, we quicken something within us that is eternal and unlimited by birth and death. Once we have experienced this eternal part in us, we can no longer doubt its existence. Meditation is thus the way to knowing and beholding the eternal, indestructible, essential center of our being
Rudolf Steiner
Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
Alan Watts
Turn thy gaze inward, wherein resides the Supreme Self
Swami Vivekananda
Still your mind in me, still yourself in me, and without a doubt you shall be united with me, Lord of Love, dwelling in your heart.
Bhagavad Gita