Quotes About Meditation

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

When people are bored it is primarily with themselves.

The creative principle is less about dogma and more about opening ourselves to the evolution of consciousness.

A man man may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him prisoner.

Normally, I like my privacy in the high desert.

Sometimes I feel it would be nice to have a bit more privacy.

At times, I lack privacy.

I'd like to go back to poetry again. I really, really revere good poetry. It's been my private discipline.

I like to go out on my bike. That's when I do my thinking. Two or three hours on the roads - that's when you get time, and you can think without problems.

I'm sure I have a process, but it mostly takes place in my dreams.

I like the cerebral process.

I said the rosary, and I said the Our Father, as they call it in the Catholic Church. One of the things I learned in the conversion process was to say the rosary, and I had a set of rosary beads. So I said 'Hail Mary, full of grace.'

Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.

When I'm acting in a film that I'm not producing, I stay to myself.

It's an old principle, as old as the Buddha or Marcus Aurelius: We need at times to step away from our lives in order to put them in perspective. Especially if we wish to be productive.

Writing is a lonely profession.

Sometimes the best thing to do is to take a step back and get a little bit of a different perspective and re-evaluate things.

I realize that I cannot live without a spiritual dimension in my life.

Through meditation and by giving full attention to one thing at a time, we can learn to direct attention where we choose.

I really want to disappear, grow a beard, not talk to anyone, not make any friends... I just want to disappear and study.

I never discuss discussions.

Nothing will distract me from my focus, my galactic mind.

I don't know if I'm attention deficit, but I certainly am easily distracted by other things.

I think in today's world, we're so busy, and we're so distracted. But it's also really important to slow down.