Krishnamurti said,

"Meditation is not a means to an end.

It is both the means and the end."

Meditation is a state of mind and body

 beyond the words,

 beyond the chatter of concepts and abstractions and judgments about things.

 It is also a place of trust,

 beyond the chatter of anxious thinking.

It is prior to our having to say

 anything at all, and

 a state where the words

have been found inadequate.

It is the Present-ness of

That before which rational thinking and language fall short,

 all words recoil,

 and prayers become unutterable

 sighs or an unexpected laugh

with nothing to explain.

 Christian mystics know

 the Silence of God; Lao Tzu knew,

"Tao, how deep, how still its hiding place!"

 At night, deep in the mountains, I sit in meditation.

The affairs of men never reach me here: everything is quiet and empty,

all the incense has been swallowed

 up by the endless night.

My robe has become a garment of dew.

Unable to sleep I walk out

 into the woods--suddenly,

 above the highest peak,

 the full moon appears.

As regards the quietude of the sage,

 he is not quiet because

 quietness is said to be good.

He is quiet because

the multitude of things cannot

 disturb his quietude.

When water is still,

 even one's beard and eyebrows

are reflected in it.

A skilled carpenter uses it as a

level to obtain a measurement.

If still water is so clear,

how much more are the mental

 faculties!

 The mind of a sage

is the mirror of

 heaven and earth in which

all things are reflected. –

Chuang Tzu