Quotes About Chanting

Hare Krishna, Peace and Love

Originally a promoter came and asked if I fancied doing a few student gigs. I was a little nervous. I thought they wouldn't know who I was and, worse still, not care. The first gig was in Lincoln. It sold out. I had knickers thrown on stage and people were chanting my name. I can't remember having a reaction like that - even in '91.

They were waving and chanting as we passed them, so I waved back. 'They're taunting you, Simon,' said Emery, laughing. 'What are they saying, then?' 'It's a song. White man – your breath stinks.

First was a clearing mantra called the Gayatri mantra, beautifully sung by a German woman named Deva Premal, which cleared away all negative energy both within and around us and called in peace and love in its place.

Music had always been the handmaid of the Roman liturgy.

Still more it was an act of self-hypnosis, a deliberate drowning of consciousness by means of rhythmic noise…he could not help but share in the general delirium, but this subhuman chanting…always filled him with horror. Of course, he chanted with the rest: it was impossible to do otherwise. To dissemble your feelings, to control your face, to do what everyone else was doing, was an instinctive reaction.

Sasha's fear was what kept her moving. All while she chanted in her head. Run. Don't look back. Run. Don't get caught.

My mom lived on an ashram on the early eighties. She turned me on to kundalini yoga and chanting and Transcendental Meditation. That was the first time I ever knew real peace.

I chant to save my heart. Every time I sit down, that's what I'm doing.

Doom hits the same frequencies that polytonic Buddhist chanting does, which is very hypnotic and makes time relative when listening.

I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

Nay, it is of one hymn alone. The words are always the same, in number they are only about a dozen, there is no rhyme, there is no poetry: Hosannah, hosannah, hosannah, Lord God of Sabaoth, 'rah! 'rah! 'rah! siss! -- boom! ... a-a-ah!

Miss Manford's hands flapped ineffectually while she chanted, 'Bless my soul!' to a God who would have been deafened had he been foolish enough to listen.

Devotion is a way of being, it's not something you do. It's dedication to finding awareness and Love. Chanting is like asanas for the mind and the heart.

Chanting opens the heart and makes love flow within us.

Humm humm haaa. Rahmumm humm haaaa," intoned Opal, finishing her chant. "Peace be inside me, tolerance all around me, forgiveness in my path. Now, Mervall, show me where the filthy human is so that I may feed him his organs.

You don't have people chanting 'Death to America' in Israel.

Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as good if you keep a clear mind. But if you don't keep a clear mind, and are only following your thinking as you mouth the words, even the Buddha cannot help you.

Fans outside were screaming. Through the white noise of hollers and hoots emerged a rhythmic shout. Becky strained to understand. "Felix, they are chanting your name." Felix nodded. "You see, this is exactly why I need you here." "To tell you what they're chanting?" "To laugh at it, darling. Or I might take it seriously.

In the second period, he hit the crossbar, and the fans chanted in singsong, "Overrated!" and "Parise's better!

the secret of chanting is in the listening, not the voicing, and a circuit is completed between mind and heart that opens intuition and gently increases the volume of the still small voice within.

Om Namah Shivaya, meaning, I honor the divinity that resides within me.

The existence of conscience, for example, provides some evidence for that, as does the fact that religious experiences can reliably be induced chemically, as well as through practices such as dancing, chanting, fasting, and meditating.

I like mantras and repeating things, like in pop music, where you repeat a line over and over again. It's just so beautiful.