Quotes About Meditation

I used to meditate all the time in bed. That was when I was raising my daughter, and I'd get her up and off to school, and then I would go back to bed and meditate. And then I would do the same in the evening, and that was very good for that period because I had so many things to juggle as a single mother.

I try to sit still for about 15 minutes each morning without making lists or running in overdrive.

I would take my guitar to college and sit for hours in the hills humming to myself.

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

I really just like to sit alone at the piano. I need my me time.

I'm not a very glamorous person. I like to just sit alone in a room and read a book or meditate.

I make sure to sit down for at least five minutes a day to just capture whatever passes through my mind.

Nothing is more satisfying to me than sitting in a dank room, hunched over a single flickering candle like Ebenezer Scrooge, and watching my ledgers fill themselves with ink.

I most enjoy sitting down with the acoustic guitar and just fiddling around and trying to come up with something like a hook or some sort of melodic line. That's something that I do habitually.

I do my thinking while I walk. It just loosens up the mind in the way that you don't get when you are sitting at a desk.

I enjoy putting my mind into different situations rather than my body.

Vipassana taught me how to maintain equanimity in all situations of life.

I want to create situations that give people something to think about.

People look at my six days in the week to see what I mean on the seventh.

I love skeletons and bones so much.

I paint or sketch for two, three hours every day. It keeps me sane.

Simon Critchley's 'The Book of Dead Philosophers' - it's a quick thumbnail sketches of philosophers through the ages.

I meditate daily, and I think it's sort of a life skill.

I'd rather stay away from the limelight. Not because I'm trying to be a good boy and all that stuff. I just love quiet.

It's hard to keep the energy going sometimes, that's why I like to go with a group of people who are meditating. I love meditating in groups, it's fantastic.

When you become thoughtless, then you can see, feel Reality.

Your attention has to be on your Spirit.

The beauty of self realization lies in secretly working out within you everything that is virtuous, that is beautiful, that is joyful.

Sahaja Yoga is a very subtle happening within us. It's a very subtle happening. And this subtler happening gives you sensitivity to divine joy.