Quotes About Meditation

I'm much more Buddhist. I mean, I'm not a Buddhist. I should be so lucky to be a Buddhist, a real Buddhist, but of all the things I investigated, that seems to make the most sense to me.

Sometimes I feel like Leonard Cohen when he went off to become a Buddhist.

How many Buddhists does it take to change a lightbulb? Many in body, one in mind.

Philosophically, I would say that I am Buddhist.

Whether we can call 'Hell or High Water' this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it's also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.

All of a sudden you have this feeling of clarity. Backcountry snowboarding has really done a lot to boost that feeling in me.

To write, I think one must sit in one place and be bored. Boredom is a very good state for writers to be. Things cook away in your head when you're bored, and suddenly one day, you have a book or a germ of a book.

I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan Institute after college and studied meditation, which made an enormous difference.

Not suffering another existence is reaching the Way.

Recovering from the suicide of a loved one, you need all the help you can get, so I very much recommend a meditation program. The whole picture of how to recover from this has to do with body, mind, and spirit. That's applicable to any kind of depression.

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

If one can control one's mind, the body follows suit.

No great inner event befalls those who summon it not.

On neither the sun, nor death, can a man look fixedly.

Spend as much time as you can in silence. Look at the way the sun paints the ground gold.

I'm not a religious person but I do like the idea of Sunday as a day set apart from the rest of the week. It's nice to have a period of reflection and have time to think about things.

If I am at home in L.A. on a Saturday or Sunday, I like to start the day with a hot bath and then do an hour of stretching.

On Sundays, I just love to go to church and then relax the whole day!

I don't do anything political on Sundays.

I believe that looking at the sunset or the city's landscape helps me think.

The necessary thing is after all but this; solitude, great inner solitude. Going into oneself for hours meeting no one - this one must be able to attain.

Think... of the world you carry within you.

I live not in dreams but in contemplation of a reality that is perhaps the future.

I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood.