"Meditation is simply the practice of focusing your attention on a particular object – generally something simple, like a word or a phrase, a candle or a geometrical shape, or the coming and going of your breath.  In everyday life, your mind is constantly processing a barrage of sensations, visual impressions, emotions, and thoughts.  When you meditate, you narrow your focus, limit the stimuli bombarding your nervous system – and calm your mind in the process."

"The great thing about meditation is that it's actually quite simple.  Just sit down, be quiet, turn your attention inward, and focus your mind.  That's all there is to it, really."

Stephan Bodian,  "Meditation for Dummies"

"Meditation involves choice.  You are choosing to be present now, now, now, and now.  It is a practice of training your attention by focusing it on something.  The focus of your attention can be on something in the present moment such as a flower, a candle, a sound, or your own breath.  Through the practice the mind settles down."

Patricia Monaghan & Eleanor Viereck,  "Meditation – the Complete Guide"

"Meditation is sacred idleness"
Antoinette Ehmke,  "Meditation for Busy People"

"…non-doing, the domain of true meditation, in which it looks as though nothing or nothing much is happening or being done, but at the same time, nothing important is left undone, and as a consequence, that mysterious energy of an open, aware non-doing can manifest in the world of doing in remarkable ways".

John Kabat-Zinn, "Coming to our Senses

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