Quotes About Meditation

That I may have the soul-life, the soul-nature, let divine beauty bring to me divine soul.

I went to a cleansing retreat in the desert where I didn't eat for eight days and experienced hunger-driven hallucinations.

We explore astronomical life through medicate experience, and we live life through love and ardvarks.

When people around me are getting rattled, I may just close my eyes and do a breathing exercise.

When the mind withdraws into itself and dispenses with facts it makes only chaos.

I got the idea of meditation from The Beatles. It was a fad, but I've found it beneficial in my crazy life.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

My mind is led astray by every faint rustle.

I have a ritual every morning where I do my meditation and visualisation, then I give thanks and send love to my family and friends.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

I meditate and I have cut out red meat. For me it is just breathing techniques, learning to be still, to control your thought processes, it calms you down. It wasn't about dealing with the pressure of games - I've always been all right in matches.

There are techniques of Buddhism, such as meditation, that anyone can adopt.

Exercise mitigates the effects of stress - and stress, we know, shortens telomeres. In fact, early studies indicate that stress reduction techniques like meditation help people maintain the length of their telomeres.

My dad taught me a lot of meditative techniques. I used that to my advantage.

Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.

When I can't sleep, I'll start thinking about how many shows I've done, count up the number of television shows and movies.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

In my middle age I seem to love a bit of pastoral telly: 'Countryfile,' 'Springwatch.' I love watching people in nature. It's a moment of calm, it's a moment of meditation.

I've started meditating, but I do have a quick temper.

The Golden Temple, Sikhism's holiest shrine, is in northwestern India near the Pakistani border, and it is a delightful place to contemplate the draw of faith.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Whenever I can snatch two-three days, I get into the car or a train and head straight for a temple site, mostly Brihadishvara Temple.

I'm not a New Age person, but I do believe in meditation, and for that reason I've always liked the Buddhist religion. When I've been to Japan, I've been to Buddhist temples and meditated, and I found that rewarding.

My temples are only in India. When I am in India, I go to the religious ceremonies.