Quotes About Meditation

I train very hard, either rowing on the cross trainer or running. Not only do you feel tired afterwards but it relaxes you, it completely clears the head. But to sort things out I also like to walk.

My training sessions were nice, calm, and quiet. Just me and my trainers in the gym.

I like to empty my mind and focus on developing my abilities in training.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Although I've made notes for things and even written synopses sitting in trains or on park benches, for the complete composition of things I need absolute solitude, preferably an empty house.

Every rider trains their muscles but few train their brain.

When I play, I very quickly put myself into a light hypnotic trance and compose while playing, drawing directly from the emotions.

Buddhism allows me to feel well, tranquil, and very happy inside. This is good not only for football but for my life in general.

You need to put easy, nice, tranquil thoughts in your head before you go to bed. You know what I do? I read metaphysical books. The good stuff stays in your brain once you go under.

Some people have a mistaken idea that all thoughts disappear through meditation and we enter a state of blankness. There certainly are times of great tranquility when concentration is strong and we have few, if any, thoughts. But other times, we can be flooded with memories, plans or random thinking. It's important not to blame yourself.

I quite like to sing, actually - just belting out numbers with my guitar. I find that it's a form of tranquility.

Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.

Fishing gives me peace, tranquillity. And also, as a forward player, it helps me with my eyes.

The place that I'm trying to come from and where I'm trying to make music from is when I feel like I'm able to somehow, like, transcend it all and just speak right to God.

I know there's millions of problems in the world, but if you dwell on those, then you're going to be miserable. I think my meditation helps me to transcend and get beyond the grip of all the negativity and regenerate from within a more positive attitude, which comes in very handy when you're going to do 150 concerts a year.

I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.

I practice transcendental meditation and there is a phase where you're meant to lift off the ground.

I think people hear the words 'transcendental meditation' and 'paganism,' and that's almost worse because it's real. Those are real things. Those are absolute energies. Satanism is like Halloween. Transcendental meditation and having a realization of how we really are - whether we want to be or not - we live in a pagan culture.

Modern psychology has pointed to the need of educating people to use a much larger portion of the mind. Transcendental meditation fulfills this need. And it can be taught very easily.

Not only was I the only black kid and the only poor kid, but my parents were transcendental meditation devotees, and I live in an ashram for a good portion of my childhood.

Meditation is really good. I do that a lot with my bass player Bob, and we do TM: transcendental meditation.

I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.

You cannot turn your brain off or stop your thoughts, but you can try while meditating not to become too invested in them. This is called transcendental meditation, which is the kind I practice.

I do 20 minutes of transcendental meditation every morning, and I try to do it in the afternoon, too.