Quotes About Meditation

I'm someone who just likes being in my cave and thinking up weird stuff.

When I am angry I can pray well and preach well.

Surely the principles of Christianity lead to action as well as meditation.

Science tells us more and more now that there is a strong connection between emotional well-being and health outcomes, and that you can proactively cultivate emotional well-being through relatively simple practices like sleep, social connection and meditation.

Spiritual process means approaching your well-being in a scientific manner as a technology for well-being.

A great hallmark of mental wellness is the ability to be in the present moment, fully and with no thoughts of being elsewhere.

I acknowledge the four elements. Water in the North; incense to recognize the air in the East; flowers for the earth in the South; a candle for light from the West. It helps me keep perspective.

Many scientists have been drawn to Buddhism out of a sense that the Western tradition has delivered an impoverished conception of basic, human sanity. In the West, if you speak to yourself out loud all day long, you are considered crazy. But speaking to yourself silently - thinking incessantly - is considered perfectly normal.

I started the Stress Reduction Clinic in 1979. The idea of bringing Buddhist meditation without the Buddhism into the mainstream of medicine was tantamount to the Visigoths being at the gates about to tear down the citadel of Western civilization.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

Writing can be an incredible mindfulness practice.

The practice of meditation can reveal to you more of your mental capacity.

No yogic practice is performed without cleansing the body first.

Because of my Buddhist practice, I'm never lacking for inspiration.

Buddhas don't practice nonsense.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

I have always practiced by myself. It's just because that is when I can do the most work, the most efficient work, is when I am by myself, and I think I just find a little bit of peace when it comes to being able to be out here on the golf course, and you are just you and yourself and your thoughts.

I am a practicing Buddhist. I have been for 25 years.

Fundamentally, if there is any secret, it is about the need to find that peace and calm in our personal space with music, as most of 'learning music' is about listening to music and practicing over and over again.

I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

I believe in God. I am not ritualistic but I do pray every day.

I pray every day and think everybody should.

I definitely have to pray and spend a lot of time by myself when I can.

He who doesn't pray to the Lord prays to the devil.