Quotes About Meditation

I'm never less at leisure than when at leisure, or less alone than when alone.

I probably talk to myself more than I talk to anyone.

I wake up and meditate for 20 minutes. The first thing I do when I wake up is say, 'Thank you.'

I think every footballer, after 20 years playing football, the first thing that comes to your mind is to relax.

But when I lived as a monk, solitude is often spoken of as a strength. And so the first thing I'd recommend is finding one thing that you can do every single day that brings you joy. It may be reading a book you love. It may be looking at a beautiful piece of art.

The first thing I do when I get up is pray and meditate to center myself for the day ahead. I ask for inspiration in my creative endeavors, guidance in my relationships and patience in my journey. It's a great way to get focused for the day.

I have to tell you that J.S. Bach was easily the greatest musical innovator in the history of the world. He was so advanced for his time. There's a spiritual depth to his music. You can listen to it and it's like meditation.

You need to constantly remind yourself what is the most important thing that is happening in the world - what is the most important thing that is happening in history. The discipline to have this focus is something I gained from meditation.

Prayer is the most important thing that I do.

I'd been reading Eastern philosophy since I was a kid. And I meditated. I did it on a daily basis. It's the one thing I do with any consistency. Meditation gives you a different kind of mindset. It's very powerful.

I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I usually, because I travel so much, leave to my gardeners who know what I love. But I do love to prune them, because you forget everything else. It's like if you're a painter, you can forget everything else while you're doing it.

Cooking used to be the one thing that kept my mind exactly where my body was. It's a sign of growing up that I can do that other ways now.

The only thing you think of is that you are in the middle and that you've got to find a way to stop it.

The only thing that's ever made sense to me has been sitting in the house by myself making music.

About the only thing that'll stay with you that you can trust all your life is your breath. Your breath will be there at the very last, because when it stops, you will stop.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

As I walk'd by myself, I talk'd to myself, And myself replied to me; And the questions myself then put to myself, With their answers I give to thee.

The senses are of the earth, the reason stands apart from them in contemplation.

I was aware of that theme of mortality in my music since around 2009. The decaying and the disappearance of the piano sound is very much symbolic of life and mortality. It's not sad. I just meditate about it.

One of the things that interests me year-round—as a Christian, as a theologian, as a human being—is that star,

Whenever I'm in a bad place, I take a little trip in my head.

Be able to be alone. Lose not the advantage of solitude. —Sir Thomas Browne

If we are going to be for the world as Christ meant for us to be, we are going to have to spend more time away from the world, in deep prayer and substantial spiritual training—just as Jesus retreated to the desert to pray before ministering to the people. We cannot give the world what we do not have.

All our troubles, if we carefully seek out their source, derive in some way from not knowing how to make a proper use of time," says Dante in his Convivio.