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Music without words means leaving behind the mind. And leaving behind the mind is meditation. Meditation returns you to the source. And the source of all is sound.
You contemplate and you wander without any worries, between heaven and earth, in your own private world, and in this way you acquire supreme freedom.
GAO XINGJIAN, Nocturnal Wanderer
Meditation and water are wedded for ever.
HERMAN MELVILLE, Moby Dick
Finding a calm place inside myself through meditation kind of helped me to get over a lot of mental illness ... it's just been a really great thing in my life.
ROSEANNE BARR, Larry King Live, Mar. 2, 2006
Meditation is to the mind what exercise is to the body, it warms and invigorates.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
Sleep is the best meditation.
DALAI LAMA, People, Sep. 10, 1979
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.
Reading makes a full Man, Meditation a profound Man, Discourse a clear Man.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN, Poor Richard's Almanac
The most weighty truths may strike, but without meditation cannot enter and influence the mind.
JOHN THORNTON, Maxims and Directions for Youth
Meditation is the life of virtue, as virtue is the life of the soul. It is the conduit by which a happy and delightful communication is maintained between God and the soul; through which the graces and blessings of God descend to the soul, and through which the ardour, the praises, and adoration of the soul, ascend to God.
WELLINS CALCOTT, Thoughts Moral and Divine
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