Quotes About Meditation

I'm an introspective dude.

I am not very introspective.

I'm an introspective guy when there's money in it.

I'm a very introspective individual.

I invariably do some of my best thinking on Saturdays.

Learning to meditate is one of my earliest memories. I started when I was maybe three or four. I mean, I didn't know I was meditating. I just thought it was a weird game my dad had invented.

Sometimes I would make myself very still and try to imagine myself dead. I tried to invoke the feeling of the very last breath I would take.

Meditation is the practice of giving something your full attention and awareness. When I eat a truffle, for example, I focus fully on it and involve as many of my senses as possible.

I think what I've learned to do is not look inward as much.

Everything in our lives is encouraging us to turn inward with all the technology that we have available to us.

Composing demands a degree of isolation.

Ingrid Bergman in 'Journey to Italy' just goes off and looks at things for most of the film.

Lately I've been listening to some classical music again, some jazz.

I listen to old jazz and classical music, and that's it.

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk and discourse, but to weigh and consider.

Worthy books are not companions - they are solitudes: we lose ourselves in them and all our cares

Silence is the sleep that nourishes wisdom.

Whoseoever is delighted in solitude, is either a wild beast or a god. Certain it is that the light that a man receiveth by counsel from another is drier and purer than that which cometh from his own understanding and judgment.

It is a poore Center of a Mans Actions, Himselfe.

Is it not knowledge that doth alone clear the mind of all perbutations?

There are times when silence is better than any other words in the dictionary...

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Many tell me that when; ALONE, they discover 'good company'.

Paralysis is the first stage of wisdom.