“True religion is not a meditation on death, but a meditation on life.”
“Meditation needs no results. Meditation can have itself as an end, I meditate without words and on nothingness. What tangles my life is writing.”
“Mindfulness meditation doesn't change life. Life remains as fragile and unpredictable as ever. Meditation changes the heart's capacity to accept life as it is. It teaches the heart to be more accommodating, not by beating it into submission, but by making it clear that accommodation is a gratifying choice.”
“Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded for ever.”
“Literature is the province of imagination, and stories, in whatever guise, are meditations on life.”