Quotes About Meditation

My brain doesn't like to be quiet.

I like a very dark house, just black. I sit there and just think. Once I'm still and quiet inside, I'll begin. It's very personal; it has to be. One song may be Bach, the next blues, a song from TV, or a nursery rhyme or jazz piece.

I thought about how we need to make children feel that there are times in their lives when they need to be alone and quiet and to be able to accept their aloneness.

I don't really listen to music when I work. I really have to focus on one thing at a time. I like a lot of quiet and peace when I'm working or when I'm thinking or when I'm reading.

When I work, I like to just kind of stay quiet, stay to myself. I like to walk around a lot and figure out what's gonna happen in the scene and try to get my head straight.

Yes, I played inside the Taj Mahal, but the experience was also a quiet, inner experience.

I asked my designer friend, Sam Klemick, to make a headdress for me, drawing inspiration from 1920s headpieces, Athena and Joan of Arc. Before each show, I have this quiet meditative moment where I put the headdress on and gather my thoughts and strength.

I've always liked to be on my own, since I was young. I like the sound of a quiet place. It helps me focus.

It's nice to have a quiet movie to give you time to meditate on an idea. A lot of movies don't give you the space to feel anything.

It's important to have quiet time and isolation.

Your personal time with God is huge, your quiet time, your study, prayer, but being around other Christian followers... and the church just feeds you. You come away feeling rejuvenated, you get a great message.

I don't get to do quiet time.

I want to live quietly.

I eat exactly three times a day: breakfast, lunch and dinner. I sit quietly for 20 minutes without anybody disturbing me, and I chew each mouthful 60 times.

I can nap with hustle and bustle around me; I can nap quietly all by myself. It's something I've always been good at.

I start thinking about life after death. I've got to quit thinking about it because it's very deep. Very deep. Sometimes you start thinking about it, and you don't feel like you want to be alive, so I don't like to get all quiet.

I'd gotten away from my Buddhism. And I quit meditating.

When I am fishing, I think quite a lot about the fish, but I also think about the book I'm writing.

Racing thoughts was the biggest hurdle to consistent meditation for me. I could sit down, but then I was left with this interior world of thoughts.

If I had a dozen lives, one of them would involve really getting off the rails in India, heavy into meditation.

To me, when I think of New Age, I think of crystals and rainbows and platitudes.

I was raised Presbyterian, but I'm not really going to church. I think the experience in meditation is pretty much where it's at for me.

When I was on the motorbike in the Dakar Rally I had a lot of time to think.

When I was in high school, I ran with the team, and I did a bit of running with friends and things. But as an adult, my favorite thing is to run by myself.