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!"