Quotes About Meditative

Surfing is incredible. It's both meditative and physical. I think it was my way into California.

She was staring after me with an expression she probably would have said was thoughtful.

He was sardonic even in his thoughts these days.

As she let the mirage of a distant ruined town lull her into a meditative state, she could detect both of them in her mind somehow, and they felt…similar. Both obsessive; both so committed to their mission that anything was permissible in completing it.

Fly-fishing for wild trout on quiet waters must be one of the toughest and craziest ways to catch fish ever invented by man, as well as among the most frustrating and humiliating.

I like to write early in the morning, like, 5 a.m. If I'm really on my game, I don't have any coffee or stimulants. I'm kind of in a dream state.

Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes.

The spirit of my home is entirely bound up in a quality of space. I have only the objects I need and nothing more. Empty space in which to think and relax is both stimulating and calming.

Quiet people have the loudest minds.

Be this as it may, we know on the best authority that Nathanael was a man of great moral excellence. No sooner had Jesus seen him than He exclaimed, "Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!" The words suggest the idea of one whose heart was pure; in whom was no doublemindedness, impure motive, pride, or unholy passion: a man of gentle, meditative spirit, in whose mind heaven lay reflected like the blue sky in a still lake on a calm summer day.

Like most people, I find watching the lazy and quiet underwater realm of a big aquarium exceptionally calming.

I think simple's good. That's why I enjoy swimming. It's very primitive, very simple.

It's actually meditative to sit in a character for an extended period of time, realizing what your relationship is to who you're playing and then letting go, just being there.

He tried to explain how there was something cathartic about being in the water. You stared down at the thick black line scrolling steadily beneath you, and all you heard was the rush of water past your ears, and a life that at times felt cosmically complicated was reduced to the simplest elements: oxygen, buoyancy, propulsion.

Properly practiced, knitting soothes the troubled spirit, and it doesn't hurt the untroubled spirit either.

I am a knitting fool. It's a quiet pastime, and a productive one. It enables one to join in the conversation or switch one's brain off, according to the interest or the excruciating dullness of what is being discussed. And the product does keep people warm and comfortable.

Justin's real weakness is, he's very much in his head. He intellectualizes a lot.

I like to cook; it is, for me, a happy combination of mindlessness and purpose.

If we go to a party, I'll just be chilling in the corner, absorbing everything.

I'm not going to be the one that's super talkative, this or that.

I'm not the most talkative guy in the world.

There are many actors I know who are not talkative.

I'm not really a big talker.

It sounds ironic to say that the cure for loneliness is aloneness. I don't mean that you should just make yourself more miserable; I am prescribing instead a form of solitude that is meditative and open to your inner self.