“Meditation on the chance which led to the meeting of my mother and father is even more salutary than meditation on death.”

“Work honestly, meditate every day, meet people without fear, and play.”

“A free man thinks of death least of all things; and his wisdom is a meditation not of death but of life.”
Homo liber de nulla re minus, quam de morte cogitat, et ejus sapientia non mortis, sed vitae meditatio est.

“To ponder is not to brood or grieve or even meditate. It is to wonder at a deep level.”

“You should work, no doubt. Work saves the mind from going astray. But prayer and meditation also are necessary. You must sit for meditation at least once in the morning and once in the evening. That will be like the helm of a boat. When one sits in meditation in the evening, there is self-examination in respect of the work done in the course of the day.”

“I sat for hours cross-legged, and cross-tempered, upon my silks meditating upon the queer freaks chance plays upon us poor devils of mortals.”

“The advantage of meditating upon life and death is being able to say anything at all about them.”

“Thus while I journey on, my Lord to meet,
My thoughts and meditations are so sweet,
Of Him on whom I lean, my strength, my stay,
I can forget the sorrows of the way.”

“Meditation helps you to meet your edge; it’s where you actually come up against it and you start to lose it.”

“Perhaps detachment cannot be achieved by anyone. Even Gautama Buddha was addicted to meditation.”