| A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad.Only meditation can save him from becoming mad. |
| Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony. |
| Meditation is the only cure for all sicknesses that man is prone to; a single medicine. And I should remind you that the word meditation and medicine come from the same root. Medicine for the body and meditation for the soul. They both bring health. |
| Sleep is the best meditation. |
| 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. |
| A man of meditation functions differently. Whatever profession he chooses, it does not matter. He will bring to his profession some quality of sacredness. He may be making shoes, or he may be cleaning the roads, but he will bring to his work some quality, some grace, some beauty, which is not possible without samadhi. |
| Just a little relaxation, just a little looking inwards, and the doors of immense potentialities open up. You are no more a beggar. Without conquering the world you have conquered the whole universe. Just conquer yourself. |
| Those who miss meditation miss the whole dance of life. |
| The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life. |
| In meditation you are not unconscious, you are conscious-more conscious than ever. |