Quotes About Meditation

Think until it hurts.

I listen to Bach a great deal. In general I like to listen to hymns and liturgical music.

I like the hypnosis. Nothing too deep - just enough to keep me clearer and more focused.

When I am performing ice immersion, actually I do not think very much. It is all before.

It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

I think I've had some of my better ideas on a bicycle.

Part of a writer's job is just spacing out, looking into the air and imagining things.

Once you see your nature, sex is basically immaterial.

For me, dancing is a real form of mediation. It gives me immense happiness and helps me stay fit.

Tibetan Buddhism had an enormous impact on me.

I think one of the most important things for creativity is boredom.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

It is well to be alone. It fertilizes the creative impulse.

The most important part of ourselves is the mind, and it has been rather inaccessible.

It would be nice to turn off that incessant churning of consciousness.

It was Helen Hunt who taught me to incorporate a consistent meditation practice. Her consistency - even when she was at her busiest and most public - was inspiration to me.

Thinking no longer means anymore than checking at each moment whether one can indeed think.

I got that idea from being in India. I always like the chanting.

I spend my time reading, sleeping, eating. The good, quiet life, with nothing to do. And little by little the water tank fills up.

concentrating on a magnetized needle prevents one from participating in the real universe, seen and unseen, where a sailboat moves.

Solitary walking forces us to confront ourselves, freeing us from the limitations of the body as well as those of our usual environment that restrict us to conventional, acceptable, and prepackaged ways of thinking.

Nicolas Wells rejoignit les autres. De son onde propre, il renrichit la vibration collective : OM. Un instant, il se sentit devenir un nuage immatériel et léger qui s'élevait et traversait les matières. C'était mille fois mieux qu'être dieu parmi les fourmis. Libre ! Il était libre.

Qu'y a-t-il de plus jouissif que de s'arrêter de penser ? Cesser enfin ce flot débordant d'idées plus ou moins utiles ou plus ou moins importantes. S'arrêter de penser ! Comme si on était mort tout en pouvant redevenir vivant. Être le vide. Retourner aux origines suprêmes. N'être même plus quelqu'un qui ne pense à rien. Être rien. Voilà une noble ambition.

Tähtis pole mitte veenda, vaid mõtlema panna.