Stop thinking and talking about it and there is nothing you will not be able to know.
Zen Koan
Silence. All human unhappiness comes from not knowing how to stay quietly in a room.
Blaise Pascal
Seek to know Brahman by meditation. Meditation is Brahman.
Taittiriya Upanishad
The Self exists in man, within the lotus of the heart, and is the master if his life and of his body. With mind illumined by the power of meditation, the wise know him, the blissful, the immortal.
Mundaka Upanishad
When all the senses are still, when the mind is at rest, when the intellect wavers not,-then, say the wise, is reached the highest state.
Katha Upanishad
To darkness are they doomed who devote themselves only to life in the world and to a greater darkness they who devote themselves only to meditation.
Isha Upanishad
Facing it,-always facing it- that’s the way to get through. Face it!
Joseph Conrad
What lie behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The life which is not examined is not worth living.
Plato