Quotes About Energy

Patience is the training in abiding with the restlessness of our energy and letting things evolve at their own speed.

We spend all our energy and waste our lives trying to re-create these zones of safety, which are always falling apart. That's the essence of samsara - the cycle of suffering that comes from continuing to seek happiness in all the wrong places.

in meditation we can notice how emotions and moods are connected with having lost or gained something, having been praised or blamed, and so forth. We can notice how what begins as a simple thought, a simple quality of energy, quickly blossoms into full-blown pleasure and pain.

This meditation is called nontheistic, which doesn't have anything to do with believing in God or not believing in God, but means that nobody but yourself can tell you what to accept and what to reject. The practice of meditation helps us to get to know this basic energy really well, with tremendous honesty and warmheartedness, and we begin to figure out for ourselves what is poison and what is medicin, which means something different for each of us.

How do we work with our minds when we meet our match? Rather than indulge or reject our experience, we can somehow let the energy of the emotion, the quality of what we're feeling, pierce us to the heart. This is easier said than done, but it's a noble way to live. It's definitely the path of compassion—the path of cultivating human bravery and kindheartedness.

There's a lot of precision, but also a lot of gentleness. Along with being very precise about our world, there's also always space around us that is called gentleness: we allow ourselves to experience how large and fluid and full of color and energy our world is. This space is our circle.

Anger - a better alternative to caffeine.

As long as you visualize this sphere of red energy surrounding you, negative thoughts, hostilities, anger, and aggressive feelings of other persons and situations cannot enter you.

Anger requires energy, something I don't dare waste on what cannot be altered.

Anger is energy, and you've got to find a place to put it that works for you.

Anger is natural. It's part of the force. You just have to learn to hang out with it.

Anger is the spirits telling you that you are alive.

There are things that must evoke our anger to show we care. It is what we do with that anger. If we direct that energy we can use it positively or destructively.

...anger is a waste of energy. Steam which is used to blow off a safety valve would be better used to drive an engine.

I'm always angry. I wake up angry. There is a lot to be angry about. Anger is a positive energy.

Art is animated by invisible forces that rule the universe.

If London is a watercolor, New York is an oil painting.

Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting art in their albums any more.

The portal of healing and creativity always takes us into the realm of the spirit.

Do whatever you do intensely.

Qigong is the art and science of refining and cultivating internal energy.

I don't listen to punk any more, unless it's right before I play. Not that I don't like it, it's nostalgic. But, it's for kids and it should be it's not art, it's expression.

Without electricity, there can be no art.

Wild Spirit, which art moving everywhere; Destroyer and preserver; hear, oh, hear!