| Modern man is too impatient and wants to master the art of meditation immediately. |
| That's what I call meditation. You simply stand aloof and just see the mind disappearing, like a cloud on a faraway horizon, leaving the sky clean and pure. And in that state arises your consciousness in its full glory, in its full celebration. |
| Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes. |
| To me the greatest problem with humanity is that they don't know anything of meditation. |
| An interval of meditation, serious and grateful, was the best corrective of everything dangerous in such a high-wrought felicity; and she went to her room, and grew steadfast and fearless in the thankfulness of her enjoyment. |
| Mindfulness is about falling awake rather than asleep. |
| Whenever you try to dictate the outcome of your meditation you negate its most wondrous benefit-the pleasure of simply being. |
| A good meditation, even when it is interrupted by occasional nodding, is much more beneficial than many outward religious exercises. |
| It can feel as if the entire body has dropped away or has become transparent, as if its substance were in some way erased. It can feel as if there is nothing but breath flowing freely across all the boundaries of the body. |
| Stop thinking that meditation is anything special. Stop thinking altogether. |