Quotes About Meditation

Every day I try to be in communication with the universe in an unconscious way.

Is there no way out of the mind?

Sometimes, I'd stop the car on the way home after filming 'Millionaire', and fish for a while in the dark.

I would consider my diary serves the same purpose as going for a walk or a run. They are all physical ways of clearing a mental landscape.

As life nears its end with me, I find myself meditating more and more upon the mystery of its nature and origin, yet without the least hope that I can find out the ways of the Eternal in this or in any other world.

The mind gets distracted in all sorts of ways. The heart is its own exclusive concern and diversion.

Concentration may be my weak point.

There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

Usually when I'm on a plane, I try to enjoy the fact that I have to be still for eight hours and read a book.

And the Buddha is the person who's free: free of plans, free of cares.

I have a living wall of 30 plants - tarragon, rosemary, echinacea. I like to walk alongside it, plucking and chewing.

Playing a sadhu is not easy at all.

It is a rather pleasant experience to be alone in a bank at night.

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

By 1968, both The Beatles and The Beach Boys had plenty of fame - we were looking for something deeper. The Maharishi taught us how to go beyond thinking and action in order to grow from within.

When I write a poem, I go into a state of self-forgetfulness, and something higher takes over; I like to call it my best self.

I do read a poem almost every morning. Unless I'm really, really late, I have to get my poem in.

Poems are not read: they are reread. Reread the poem, then read between the lines, then look at it, then watch it, then peek at it: handle it like an object. Contemplate its shadows, angles and dimensions.

Poems are perfect for something to listen to while you're walking around because they don't take very long.

I write poems, I meditate. I don't live up to people's expectations. I don't do the conventional cool things - I know I am the coolest person.

I read Rumi, the 13th-century Persian poet, every day.

Poetry is composing for the breath.

Maybe where there's clarity of air, there's clarity of thought.

Meditation is about breathing, it's about clarity, taking your time and not rushing through your thinking.