Quotes About Meditation

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

Everything we do is for the purpose of altering consciousness.

I relax by looking at things and reading about things. Even the simplest thing can reveal a great deal about the world around us. It relaxes me greatly to sit back with my feet up and look around my study at the everyday things that surround me.

I used to find that I could get mental serenity surrounded by chaos.

Being in ballet class, being on the stage, being surrounded by my peers at American Ballet Theater every day, keeps me so humble and grounded. Being in ballet class, I feel, is like this meditation for me every morning.

Keep a journal, and learn how to see how you as an individuals sees information so you can learn your own sign language. Meditate and practice psychic self defense and surrounding yourself with prayer.

Aphorisms are food for thought - like sushi, they come in small portions that are both delicious and exquisitely formed. And, like sushi, I can never get enough.

'The Invitation' is a meditation on grief and loss carried within a suspense drama. At its core, it's about a dinner party gone horribly wrong and about the consequences of denying our pain.

I would get a lot of writing done if I lived in isolation in a cave under a swamp.

Working out early in the morning is a form of meditation for me. It's practically the only hour to myself and I get to shut off and just sweat it all out.

So this is how you swim inward. So this is how you flow outwards. So this is how you pray.

The only routine I have is going for a run and a swim with the dog in the morning, between 8am and 9am - that is my head-clearing space. I am religious about holding on to that time: whatever happens, I don't want to know about it until after that.

I like to swim. It's good for the body and it helps clear my head.

I meditate - very pretentious - and I try to read as much as I can and swim at the Y.

A lot of the time, when I swim, I close my eyes because it is definitely lonely.

I think for most people it's hard to understand what it is about swimming - I mean it's such a solo endeavour.

Just the ritual of feeling the grip in my fingers and making loose swings is relaxing.

My mind is never stopping. I think, if you stop, you die. Maybe it is a problem for me - I have to talk to myself and say, 'Please stop. Switch off.'

I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

It's nice to have a few moments at night to help me switch off.

I love listening to old 'Desert Island Discs' - I just sit there, switch my head off, and just have that moment.

Sting is much better at switching off than I am. He can concentrate and meditate whatever might be going on in the room and is far more disciplined.

You can go from object to object, from plant to plant, from animal to animal and regard them as symbols for the spiritual. In this way, you make your imaginative capacities fluid and release them from the sharp contours of sense perception.

Meditation makes the entire nervous system go into a field of coherence.