Quote by Herbert Benson

Please, a definition: A hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

— Ralph Ellison

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

— Mike Love

Hibernation is a covert preparation for a more overt action.

— Ralph Ellison

During meditation, our breathing slows, our blood pressure and heart rate decrease, and stress hormone levels fall.

— Deepak Chopra

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book(Lady Chatterley, for instance), or…

— Anais Nin

“Synaptic downscaling during the meditation leads to a reduced energy demand of the brain. Meditation can provide synaptic re-normalization. Meditation represents a reduced oxygen…

— Amit Ray

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of…

— Elizabeth Lesser

Meditation is not something you do in the morning and you are finished with it, meditation is something that you have to go on…

— Rajneesh

Meditation has to become your heartbeat; even when you are asleep the meditation continues like an undercurrent

— Rajneesh

“Meditation is a state, often defined as deep dreamless sleep awake. But, in the same way that you cannot sleep on demand, you cannot…

— Gudjon Bergmann

When meditation releases energy in you, it will find all sorts of ways to be expressed.

— Rajneesh

Meditation is a process of liquefying the self temporarily and then allowing the self to rebind. The ice melts and then it comes back…

— Frederick Lenz