Quotes About Meditation

If I want to be alone, some place I can write, I can read, I can pray, I can cry, I can do whatever I want - I go to the bathroom.

The mind is a leaf pile where you can bury anything....

Learn much of the Lord Jesus. For every look at yourself, take ten looks at Christ. Let your soul be filled with a sense of the excellence of Christ."2

To relate to God's word this way requires us to get beyond using the Bible merely as a textbook to study, a book of proof texts for arguments, or a promise book to which we occasionally turn. Cherishing God's word requires us to seek the perspective of the psalmist who, distancing himself from the proud and the scoffers of his day, says of the man who is walking with God, "His delight is in the law of the Lord, and on his law he meditates day and night" (Psalm 1:2).

While meditating we are simply seeing what the mind has been doing all along.

We were celebrating transcendental consciousness, the beauty of the universe, the beauty of being.

It's hard to say what philosophy is. Somebody, and I forget who, defined it as just thinking exceptionally hard.

A library is a hospital for the mind.

La única manera de dejar de sufrir consiste en mantener la cabeza vacía

Learning how to center and control anger, fear, sadness, weakness and learning how to channel that into something smart, cerebralizing it, meditating on it and then moving into it with wisdom - that's important.

My weakness as an actor is that I think too much.

I meditate every day, which is profoundly restful and restorative. It wipes out a lot of the fatigue. That's my secret weapon.

I pass my time in the open air on the beach when it is really heavy weather or when the boats go out fishing.

We live in this thought web; we identify things and put them away and distance ourselves from them. But to be completely present? That is source, that is art, that is spirituality. And meditation is a way to defy fear and experience that source.

If you stare at a wall from four in the morning till nine at night, and you do that for a week, you are getting pretty close to nothingness.

It's not like me and Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr hang out every week, but we keep together in promoting Transcendental Meditation.

So if you're on the motorcycle, on the track you're not thinking at all about what's happening next week or tomorrow or anything. You're literally thinking about the turn you're setting up and there's something about that I find very cathartic and meditative.

Sometimes a week might go by when I don't think about that game, but I don't remember when it happened last.

If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.

Music has always taken me to my 'thinking place' - the one place that makes me dwell on the meaning of things and ponder why things are the way they are.

Indoor pools just don't seem as inviting to me.

I could float in the pool for hours, just letting the water carry me.

Any pose that is an arch will open the chest cavity and is excellent for energizing the body.

I remember thinking, 'Downward dog' is so not a resting pose!' Now it actually can be.