"Meditation is freeing the mind, through intense alertness, from its reactions, and thereby bringing about without control, without deliberate will, a state of inward quietness."

"The mind in meditation is in a state of awareness without the centre of recognition, and therefore without a circumference; it is attention without a frontier. The mind in meditation is that which has freed itself without effort from the known."

"Meditation is the understanding of consciousness, the hidden and the open, and of movement that lies beyond all thought and feeling."

"Thought is an impediment to meditation but only through meditation can this impediment be dissolved. For thought dissipates energy, and the essence of energy is freedom from thought and feeling."

-J. Krishnamurti