Quotes About Meditation

Running for me is self-exploration.

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

I run every day. It keeps me sane and it's my meditation.

There's a real wisdom to not saying a thing.

As a huge admirer of Vivekananda, I love reading 'Sayings of Vivekananda.'

I'm into scripture every day.

I don't go in search of ideas; I try to let them find me.

I'm so secluded. Very alone.

I keep a note pad because, sometimes, my thoughts get jammed up, and this is the only way that I can just, I can put brakes on it and brace myself, and just really, I feel like it's better when I see it on paper.

When I'm writing I just think there's only the page and me and nobody else.

Sometimes you just need words on a page to memorize.

I meditate a lot, but I am constantly in pain. I'm trying to live with this. You just have to accept it.

When I got my first loft, I still didn't know what I was going to paint... There were long stretches when I just sat there and thought without interruption.

I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

A lot of painters listen to music, I think, while they paint. But I hate to do that. It's a horror. I can't really listen to the music. I'm not really concentrating on it, and I'm not really concentrating on the painting.

After my divorce, painting took me out of panic mode and into a serene, calm place. I could absolutely lose myself.

My favorite thing is to be alone in a room with a blank paper in front of me and the time to fill it.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

I'm not gregarious. I spend a lot of time in the parks when it is fine. I do know almost every blade of grass.

I don't go to parties in general.

The purpose of meditation practice is not enlightenment; it is to pay attention even at extraordinary times, to be of the present, nothing-but-in-the-present, to bear this mindfulness of now into each event of ordinary life.

It is related that Sakyamuni [the historical Buddha] once dismissed as of small consequence a feat of levitation on the part of a disciple, and cried out in pity for a yogin by the river who had spent twenty years of his human existence learning to walk on water, when the ferryman might have taken him across for a small coin.

Some people think that meditation takes time away from physical accomplishment. Taken to extremes, of course, that's true. Most people, however, find that meditation creates more time than it takes.

You will know your state of mind when you wash the dishes. Your care or your impatience; your attention or your distraction. You will see yourself, at that moment, clearly.