Quotes About Meditation

I'm self-entertaining. My dialogue is with myself.

I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.

I think there is a collective unconsciousness, or some sort of consciousness, that you can tap into if you're open and brave enough to let everything go and be part of that.

Hmm, on my downtime, I take a shower or listen to the Bible on tape.

Every single morning, I have a person sitting right there next to me in prayer with a tape recorder - and a song comes up every day.

I don't have tapes of meditation, but I put on the meditation station. I did as a player, too. I used to always play the game before the game happened. As a coach, I do the same thing.

The insomnia just perpetuates. I have one bad night, then I get it in my head that I can't sleep. I've been trying these meditation tapes - there are a couple on Spotify - and they're meant to calm you. But they don't seem to work.

When I look down the range at the target all I can do is try to distinguish between the different colors.

There's something to be said about living in the present moment. In cooking, you're allowing your mind to just focus on the task at hand, and you're able to escape and put your mind at rest. That's why it becomes meditative.

'I have always asked God to guide me in each of my tasks.

You had to decompress the pressure before the race. I taught my heart to relax. I lay down before the race. It gave me more energy just before the race.

As an Indian and as a Hindu, I have been taught to see God everywhere right from my childhood.

When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

I like the pause that tea allows.

I have a very strict regimen of showing up at my desk at a certain hour with my cup of green tea. It is very quiet. I don't like having a lot of atmosphere around.

When you're writing, it's a very solitary job. It's you and your word processor and a cup of tea.

I think Buddhism is a wonderful philosophy. I've had the good fortune to meet many wonderful teachers from that society.

Our philosophy always teaches us that you can have intense activity, but inside, you have to have peace. The office has to reflect that.

I admire the fact that the central core of Buddhist teaching involves mindfulness and loving kindness and compassion.

The teachings of Tibetan Buddhism have been passed down for a long time now. They have that system pretty well figured out.

So, immediately after that, I got a commission to write a piece for chamber orchestra, and in working on the material I discovered it was possible to incorporate the Buddhist teachings into the music, so that's what I started to do.

You can't fight evil with meditation.

Nearly all spiritual practices are based on attention. In fact, whenever you think you have lost the path, or whenever you feel confused by esoteric terminology or technique, remember that all these techniques or teachings are various ways to help you learn to pay attention.

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