Quotes About Meditation

I'm a yogi, not a businessman.

I'm a big yogi.

In the spring of 1968, The Beatles and I were invited by Maharishi Mahesh Yogi to travel to Riskikesh, India. Riskikesh has been an important spiritual place to many millions of people over the years. It is situated where the Ganges River flows out of the Himalayas, and to be in that atmosphere was something incredibly special.

I've read 'Autobiography of a Yogi' at different ages and interpret something new each time.

A jigsaw puzzle is my form of meditation. In New York, I glued all of the ones I did together and hung them up on the wall.

The mind is everything. What you think you become.

Since I was young, I've been aware that I need time to myself to process everything.

From a young age, I saw and placed importance on spirituality within religion.

I found it quite pleasing to be alone from a very young age. The piano became my source of release.

I was very neurotic as a kid, but I also used to pray to God as a young kid in school. It was a form of meditation to slow my head down and not make me feel nervous.

As a freshman in college, I was having a lot of trouble adjusting. I took a meditation class to handle anxiety. It really helped. Then as a grad student at Harvard, I was awarded a pre-doctoral traveling fellowship to India, where my focus was on the ancient systems of psychology and meditation practices of Asia.

Gandhi became my role model. I have always been interested in Eastern philosophy. Since early in my life I've been fascinated by India, and I have spent a great deal of time traveling in that country.

We are journeying externally from country to country. We are traveling in historical time, from the present to the distant past. We are traveling inwardly as well, through the music of meditation.

Travelling alone was like laundry for my thoughts.

Swimming can be boring. To me, it's like going on a treadmill.

I have a rat inside my skull that runs on a treadmill - pitta-patta pitta-patta pitta-patta. I enjoy the company of other people who experience that pitta-patta in their skulls.

Sentences or solutions occur to me in the shower, or while running on the treadmill, or riding on the subway.

I feel like it's the most boring thing, sitting on the treadmill or on a bike. It just explodes my mind!

As humans we look at things and think about what we've looked at. We treasure it in a kind of private art gallery.

I don't listen to music a lot in that I rarely sit down and put on a CD because I really want to treasure the silence that is there when I'm not practising. But when I listen to a piece, I listen to it often.

Being on your own in a gallery is the biggest treat, as long as the lights are switched on.

Walking alone, just thinking - that's treatment, man. That's the most comforting rehab I've known.

I get on my porch with my guitar, look at my trees, and write a song.

If I had not been already been meditating, I would certainly have had to start. I've treated my own depression for many years with exercise and meditation, and I've found that to be a tremendous help.