For me, playing music is like meditating - I just play and…

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without…

— John Burroughs

For any practice to work, the mind which is meditating on the object must merge. Often they are facing each other. One has to…

— Tenzin Palmo

“Whenever one starts meditating, the mind becomes rebellious. It starts all types of arguments: “What are you doing, why are you wasting time? Use…

— Osho

“When (because there is no “if” about this) you are meditating and suddenly find yourself mixing up a batch of brownies or deciding whether…

— Victor Davich

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and…

— Jet Li

That which rises and sinks is made up of what it rises from. The finality of the universe is the God Arunachala. Meditating on…

— Ramana Maharshi

The mind of one meditating on a single object becomes one-pointed. And one-pointedness of mind leads to abidance in the self. Real attainment is…

— Ramana Maharshi

You can gain power by avoidance. You can gain power by doing certain things. You can gain much more power by meditating.

— Frederick Lenz

Gaining energy is accomplished by meditating, by right actions, right thoughts, right deeds, by studying with a real teacher or by just studying the…

— Frederick Lenz

It seemed to be a necessary ritual that he should prepare himself for sleep by meditating under the solemnity of the night sky... a…

— Victor Hugo

Through concentration we become one-pointed and through meditation we expand our consciousness into the Vast. But in contemplation we grow into the Vast itself.…

— Sri Chinmoy

So many things make me come alive, like when I just finish meditating and I open my eyes and it's as if everything is…

— Renee Marino

{While meditating} I sit quietly and rest in the nature of mind; I don't question or doubt whether I am in the "correct" state…

— Sogyal Rinpoche

Not only when one does meditation one is getting into a different realm, cognitively, but if you look at the imaging that's done on…

— Darold Treffert

Meditation is silence. If you realize that you really know nothing, then you will be truly meditating. Such truthfulness is the right soil for…

— Yogaswami