Quotes About Meditation

I like to escape to the beach and kind of ground myself whenever I can.

I try to indulge my muse whenever I am able to get away from it all.

Who doesn't love Enya? Whenever I'm in a trying time, she is the calm in the middle of the storm. If I put her on, I'll be in this crazy peaceful state. I love her style. And her harmonies are freaking genius.

I like gardening - it's a place where I find myself when I need to lose myself.

Solitude is the strength of being alone. It's where we become our best company.

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that is where I renew my springs that never dry up.

A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

When we exercise, it feels like we're really out there doing something, whereas spending a few minutes with your eyes closed in meditation may feel a little, well, wimpy.

I advise, if you're stymied by a passage or paragraph or plot point - whether it's for an assignment from the outside world or one that comes only from within - get up from wherever you're sitting, walk outdoors, and do nothing but look at the sky for five minutes. Just stare at that thing. Then execute a small bow and go back in.

When I write, I normally write anywhere that I can feel at peace, so if it's in my bedroom, if it's at the park, if it's by a lake somewhere, wherever I feel calm is where I like to write.

Only fools argue whether to eat meat or not. They don't understand truth, nor do they meditate on it. Who can define what is meat and what is plant? Who knows where the sin lies, being a vegetarian or a non-vegetarian?

Whether you call it Buddhism or another religion, self-discipline, that's important. Self-discipline with awareness of consequences.

We have self-centered minds which get us into plenty of trouble. If we do not come to understand the error in the way we think, our self-awareness, which is our greatest blessing, is also our downfall.

Discipline means to prevent everything in your life from being filled up. Discipline means that somewhere you're not occupied, and certainly not preoccupied. In the spiritual life, discipline means to create that space in which something can happen that you hadn't planned or counted on.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

All the good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.

I crave a cone of silence every once in while.

I can meditate anywhere, anytime, even whilst talking to you.

I do talk to myself, just not in a whisper. But I have caught myself sometimes.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

The execution of any thing considerable implies in the first place previous persevering meditation.