Quotes About Meditative

I don't think Hawk or I are operating on emotional whim. It's just the way we experience things sometimes needs to get translated sort of promptly into a, ah, course of action. So we have tended to bypass the meditative circuit." "Wow," Hawk said.

Fifteen years ago I knew I had to settle into being a mom and give them a normal life, which I never had. I was always traveling. I had tours. I wanted my kids to settle down, and we kind of did it together.... It was a bumpy transition. There was no director telling me what to do. No script, but I really enjoyed it. I even became president of the PTA. Doing the laundry was a meditative experience. Now, when I start to get nervous and stressed, I go in and start to fold towels.

I found him most of the time grave-faced, staring ahead of him, and eating frugally.

Going to the cinema is like returning to the womb; you sit there, still and meditative in the darkness, waiting for life to appear on the screen.

When bumble-bees in solemn flight

the most dreamless and introspective time of day, a sort of midnight of the daytime

Baking is very meditative. It's precise - you have to weigh out the ingredients, follow it step by step and focus on everything, so it's just right. It also brings you out of your shell, because if you've made a batch of brownies, you share them and its really sociable like that.

You know how some people write every day at a certain point? I'm not like that. I carry something around for a long time. I weigh the words and the sentences. I weigh the paragraphs. The process is much more meditative for me.

I find a bath meditative and usually prepare myself for the day in this manner.

One of the things I like about performing on the stage is that it is a kind of meditative experience. Time does stand still. You have no concept or feeling of the passing of two or three hours' time. It's all kind of one present moment, which is a kind of a description of meditation.

Mr. Meredith couldn't tell her, but they plunged into a discussion of German militarism that lasted long after Rosemary had found the book. Rosemary said nothing, but sat in a little rocker behind Ellen and stroked an important black cat meditatively.

She was composed. Calm. As calm as the sea, the grass, these old trees. She floated in the nowness of everything.

Coffee makes us severe, and grave and philosophical.

Perhaps sometimes life shows you a side of itself which leaves you with nothing more to say

Baking calms me; it's stabilizing.

I would like to perfect the art of being studiously aloof

My love for pottery started completely by chance when a good friend of mine recommended I take a class. When I sat down at a pottery wheel, it was like love at first sight. It was so deeply meditative, and I felt connected right away.

Editing is a meditative process. I enjoy it the most. I am not dealing with 200 people.

I am not, by nature, an explorer or an adventurer.

Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone that works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace.

I would call myself more spiritual than religious.

Joy is not dependent on circumstances; it is your own. It is not a titillation produced by things; it is a state of peace, of silence-a meditative state. It is spiritual.

I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

I'm not religious. I would say I'm more spiritual than religious.