Quotes About Meditation

The way I sing my songs leads the listener into a place of introspection, a state of mind that can trigger self-healing and the kind of profound rest you cannot get from sleep alone.

Reading is a heady thing. You can be into the action of someone's thoughts and take a whole trip down someone's ruminations while seconds tick by in the world that they're in, but you can't really do that in film.

Meditation is not the construction of something foreign, it is not an effort to attain and then hold on to a particular experience. We may have a secret desire that through meditation we will accumulate a stockpile of magical experiences, or at least a mystical trophy or two, and then we will be able to proudly display them for others to see.

If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.

When I'm in the truck on my own I play big, open space music, such as Ry Cooder or Latin stuff.

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.

True silence is the rest of the mind, and is to the spirit what sleep is to the body, nourishment and refreshment.

I meditate. I need that time to stay true to who I am.

I get to escape this crazy world that I live in. I think that's the true beauty of running.

I'm a true believer in prayer, a big believer in prayer.

I do get up in the morning and I try to spend at least half an hour meditating and reading something spiritual. I start my day with meditation and prayer, and I truly believe that all the stuff you do on the outside isn't as important as what you do on the inside.

I often lay on that bench looking up into the tree, past the trunk and up into the branches. It was particularly fine at night with the stars above the tree.

To me, there is no greater way to achieve clarity than to run alone, or share miles with a trusted friend.

The Dharma is the truth that all natures are pure.

I am a humble but very earnest seeker after truth.

I've always felt that the truth is in the silence.

People will occasionally ask me if I understand what it's like to be lonely. And the truth is I don't, because for me, solitariness is a blessing, a gift. Me, I get on fine with myself.

But if we see ourselves as connected to God, or as reconnecting to our Source through meditation, then we can attract anything we want into our lives.

I am like a book, with pages that have stuck together for want of use: my mind needs unpacking and the truths stored within must be turned over from time to time, to be ready when occasion demands.

If we rationalize our problems when He points them out, we will spend less and less time meditating because we won't want to face God in that area of our lives.

Intentions are the triggers for transformation in the body. If you want to wiggle your toes, you do it through intention.

"Getting away from it all," many people want that, and of course ultimately the only way to get away from it all is to go within, now.

As irrigators lead water where they want, as archers make their arrows straight, as carpenters carve wood, the wise shape their minds.

If there's a God, I want to see Him. It's pointless to believe in something without proof, and Krishna consciousness and meditation are methods where you can actually obtain God perception.