quotations about meditation
Meditation is nothing short of rebirth! You have to possess the courage to face death--your own death!--and to be reborn as someone entirely new.
PARAMAHAMSA NITHYANANDA
Meditation Is For You
Divinely bent to meditation;
And in no worldly suits would he be mov'd,
To draw him from his holy exercise.
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Richard III
Sleep is the best meditation.
DALAI LAMA
People Magazine, September 10, 1979
Meditation is, if anything, a sustained instrumental path of transcendence.
KEN WILBER
The Atman Project
The man whose whole activity is diverted to inner meditation becomes insensible to all his surroundings. If he loves, it is not to give himself, to blend in fecund union with another being, but to meditate on his love. His passions are mere appearances, being sterile. They are dissipated in futile imaginings, producing nothing external to themselves.
EMILE DURKHEIM
Suicide
Meditation is first quietness. We live in a great din. It is well to see (for who sees it not will have but narrow sympathies and understand little that occurs around him) that the noise is often a noble uproar, "deep calling unto deep," the clamor of wonderful machinery, of great labors, of human struggles, of heroes' voices. But storms, though grand, must sink if the sea is to show the stars.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
Essays
Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
The Ultimate Cosmic Ordering Meditation
Meditation is not the menu; it's the meal.
VICTOR DAVICH
8 Minute Meditation
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLE
Moby Dick
Meditation has another way of ennoblement, but parallel, namely, that it lifts the mind up above ourselves.
JAMES VILA BLAKE
"Of Meditation", Essays
Religious meditation, when set up as an end, not as an exercise towards an end, can issue only with all the more highly gifted minds in transcendental reverie, but with the great majority in devout torpor and pious monotony.
JOHN STUART BLACKIE
The Natural History of Atheism
Meditation is the language of God. If we want to know what God's Will is in our life, if we want God to guide us, mould us and fulfil Himself in and through us, then meditation is the language that we must use.
SRI CHINMOY
Meditation: Man-Perfection in God-Satisfaction