Quotes About Meditation

I get caught up in my bubble of reading, writing, or music.

Meditation is about getting to a place where you're approaching things in a more calm, centering place rather than allowing yourself to get caught up in it.

I'll read anything by a guy who spent 40 years in a cave.

I had nothing in my cell. Most of the time I recited the Quran. The rest of the time I was speaking to myself and thinking about my life and the worst-case scenarios that could happen to me.

Running is how I clear my head and find my center again.

I do believe that there are creative chakras or different sorts of energy centers.

I make and wear black and white for myself because it centers me.

I have been following Buddhism since 11 years now. I love the sound of chanting.

When I get thinking, I get very knotted up. I chew things over a lot and take things quite seriously.

From the physical aspect of things, I really enjoy Tai Chi.

I still go to a Christian priory for retreats.

I used to sit on the Circle Line and go 'round and 'round and write.

I realized that I love the quiet bits in most superhero films.

I actually rid myself of superstitions, but I do a quick 20-minute meditation before games.

It is so powerful when we can leave behind our ordinary identities, no longer think of ourselves primarily as a conductor, or writer, or salesclerk, and go to a supportive environment to deeply immerse in meditation practice.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

Meditation is painful in the beginning but it bestows immortal Bliss and supreme joy in the end.

Devotion complete culminates in knowledge supreme.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

I'm quiet and introverted, and I like to just be by myself a lot. I like to read and just get away and surf. I have a lot of alone time.

We apply our effort to be mindful, to be aware in this very moment, right here and now, and we bring a very wholehearted effort to it. This brings concentration. It is this power of concentration that we use to cut through the world of surface appearances to get to a much deeper reality.

I feel really fortunate that, in playing guitar and surfing, I've found two things that mean so much to me, and which really complement each other. There's definitely a spiritual thing to both of them; they totally connect you to a higher realm.

Surfing is my religion, if I have one.

I've never been good at meditation, but surfing is the closest I've ever come to that inner something.