Quotes About Meditation

We are used to cleaning the outside house, but the most important house to clean is yourself - your own house - which we never do.

Sage is cleansing and sacred.

Abstinence is the great strengthener and clearer of reason.

Meditation helps me see things clearer. When things are going fast, it helps me slow them down.

That's what my music is good for - clearing out the house and being alone.

Being outside on your own in all weathers is exciting; it clears you out.

Reductionism and elimination make one feel clever, but what happens when the meditator drops her fixation on feeling clever?

I'm off to sit on a cliff.

I usually go straight for coffee when I wake up. I start my day with a half hour meditation... but only after a cup of coffee. Caffeination with meditation might sound funny, but it's how I don't fall back asleep in the morning!

For me, God is cold.

There is something comforting about going into a practice room, putting your sheet music on a stand and playing Bach over and over again.

I've been doing breathing routines for years. It is massive. It helped me in commentary as well.

Meditation allows us to deal with life as it is rather than looking at it and comparing it with how we think it's supposed to be.

If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.

When I try to concentrate, I really enjoy writing.

For me, writing is a concentrated form of thinking.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

I'm not good at concentrating.

I kind of just got right into playing music because I could kind of stop thinking when I was concentrating on playing the guitar.

Music requires a lot of attention and concentration.

Before a match, I need to be alone. I need to reach concentration and focus on the game ahead of me.

The philosophy of Buddhism is connected to everything. So it probably does have some connection with acting, yes.

Conscious thought is the tidying up at the end.

I don't talk about consciousness. I talk about interiority.