Quotes About Meditation

One has to spend time sort of really going back through one's memories. When you do start doing that then, you do recall more as time goes on.

Not being able to play makes one be able to listen and receive better. The constant noodling on guitar can be great, but also distracting to the universal music inside you.

Receiving personal revelation is not a passive process. As we seek such revelations, we must prepare for these sacred experiences.

Going to religious places gives me clarity. When I am sitting there, I am in a state of gratitude with my defence mechanism down and am open to receiving that energy, that gives me clarity as at that time, you are listening to your heart. The heart shows you the direction in life. The mind exists only to execute your emotion.

Something I practice everyday is Tonglin. It's Tibetan for taking and receiving.

I've been writing a lot of poetry recently. It helps me think and work things out.

Apparently, I've been considered a recluse.

I'm just a monk, I'm like a recluse.

Gael Clichy who was at the club does a lot of meditation and he recommend it to me because I was such an all-action guy.

I go to the ocean to calm down, to reconnect with the creator, to just be happy.

When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.

I don't do any special preparations before recording any number, nothing like deep breathing or meditation.

It doesn't pay to get too familiar with your songs. Going off to do other things in between recording sessions gives you a chance to think.

Think of Hridaynath Mangeshkar's 'Mira bhajans.' I have bought these records three to four times, as I listen to them so often.

If you listen to really deep ambient records that don't move too much, very still records, long after those records are finished, you might find yourself listening for hours to the sound of the room.

Let the answer hang there for two or three or four seconds.

I feel the happiest when I'm at the golf course. And I feel calm when I'm on the golf course. I think I'm just a much better person when I'm on the golf course.

You have to remember that I'm a guy who is happiest in a dark room just thinking.

Like many things, the hardest part about meditation is the decision to put aside the time for it.

I'm the kind of person who likes to be lonely. I got my head down and focused on getting fit.

Most don't live inside their heads as a writer does, having conversations with her own ideas.

Entrepreneurs spend an inordinate amount of time inside of our own heads - thinking, analyzing, agonizing and obsessing over every little detail of our business. Sometimes, we need a break from ourselves. Meditation is a chance to let the thinking mind rest.

I have always tried to heal myself from within.

At home, we never used to perform pujas every day. But God has always been there in the hearts.