Quotes About Contemplation

I still like to get carried away - but passively.

My job is to give everyone a chance to catch their breath and step back from all this and get back to work.

Every night before going to bed, I think about Vizag. But once you wake up, you have to catch up with life.

I hate celebrating birthdays.

I had nothing in my cell. Most of the time I recited the Quran. The rest of the time I was speaking to myself and thinking about my life and the worst-case scenarios that could happen to me.

I've always loved cemeteries since I was a kid. They're very calm.

I've never been interested in the event when I'm the center of attention.

People ask me whether I'm religious. Well, in a certain way, I am.

When you look at your life as an artist, you do see that when you get to be 60, you're coming - this is the last chapter.

People meet in bars after work all over the world and talk about the great problems of life and death and the world and politics and they don't take themselves seriously. They can do nothing else except chat about these things in bars after work.

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

You should enter a ballpark the way you enter a church.

I realized that I love the quiet bits in most superhero films.

I keep reviewing my feelings about the supernatural.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

It was said of me recently that I suffered from an Obsessional Privacy. I can only suppose it must be true.

I suppose we do live a pretty isolated life.

I can never say 'why' about anything I do. I suppose I can say 'how' and 'when' and 'what.' But 'why' is impenetrable to me.

I don't go to a psychiatrist. I don't go to a gym. I run away from my accountant, I run away from my dentist. They are all supposed to help you, but I like to stay in bed, where I have a chance to reflect, like Rossellini.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

You aren't sure if you're making the right decision - about anything, ever.

Shortly after the end of last season, I felt that I probably would not return for the 1999-2000 season. I also felt that I should take as much time as possible to sort through my feelings and make sure that my feelings were backed with conviction.

My most fertile reading time is when I have just finished a project and haven't started another. I binge-read and surf around bookstores.