"When you meditate, you shift your focus.  Instead of paying attention to the surface of the mind, which teems with constant change, you go deeper to experience silence.  In and of itself, silence is pointless.  Life is about action and response, not silent detachment.  But inner silence is something far more profound: it is awareness being aware of itself, also known as wakefulness, or mindfulness. In it's silent depths, your mind knows everything that's going on.  Time collapses into a single focal point, where the one unshakable thing you know is "I am." This isn't passive knowledge.  It is the center of everything, the source of all the activity that springs forth as thoughts, sensations, and external events.  Silence, it turns out, is the womb of creation.  Therefore, meditation is a creative event through which you are reclaiming authorship of your life."
-Deepak Chopra"Why is God Laughing"