Quotes About Meditation

If I have a show at night, I like to spend the whole day alone in silence. I know that might be crazy.

I'm a guy that likes to sit in the quiet and think about things, and sometimes it's way more relaxing to have dead silence.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

Silence can be very effective, and it gives the music space to breathe.

I'm a friend of silence.

I have studied psychology and practised as well, that helps me read auras, minds and silence too at times.

Buddhada was a man of few words. You can see the importance of silence in his cinema. There are long stretches of no dialogue in his films.

The silence of the room is as important as the music.

Mornings are the most crucial time of day for me. I like the silence.

I'm of the opinion that it's okay to be silent, to not speak if you don't have anything to say.

Many Christians have so busied themselves with programs and activities that they no longer know how to be silent and meditate on God's word or recognize the mysteries that are in the Person of Christ.

See and keep silent.

If the room falls silent for a moment, all I hear is white noise.

I think that the power of the Silent Minute lies in its inherent lack of external direction: what participants actually do during that minute - prayer, contemplation, focus - is up to them.

I think music comes out of silence... and I have a lot of silent time, without a pesky guitar interrupting my thoughts.

I made myself a little angry before beam. That's the best way to do beam. It's important to fuel yourself with some devastating things, but I also realized that if I daydream about doing well and having this silver medal, it's more motivating than focusing on the negatives. So I learned to focus on the positive.

In contemplation and reverie, one thought introduces another perpetually; and it is by similarity, or the hooking of one upon the other, that the process of thinking is carried on.

I am a simple Buddhist monk - no more, no less.

I describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

My running was very simple; it was out of myself.

I'm a very simple person. I don't use computers.

At least twice a week, I pause in the rush of work and have a meeting with myself. (If I were part of a team, I'd call a team meeting.) I ask myself, again, of the project: "What is this damn thing about?" Keep refining your understanding of the theme; keep narrowing it down.

Have you ever meditated? Then you know what it feels like to shift your consciousness to a witnessing mode and to watch thoughts arise, float across your awareness, and then drift away, to be replaced by the next thought and the thought after that. These are not thoughts. They are chatter.