Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end.
No great work has ever been produced except after a long interval of still and musing meditation.
I know but one freedom and that is the freedom of the mind.
At the end of the day, I can end up just totally wacky, because I've made mountains out of molehills. With meditation, I can keep them as molehills.
Mindful meditation has been discovered to foster the ability to inhibit those very quick emotional impulses.
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
When we dance, the journey itself is the point, as when we play music the playing itself is the point. And exactly the same thing is true in meditation. Meditation is the discovery that the point of life is always arrived at in the immediate moment.
It's a lifelong gift, something you can call on at any time.
Meditation practice isn't about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It's about befriending who we are already.
Meditation is the ultimate mobile device; you can use it anywhere, anytime, unobtrusively.