Quotes About Meditation

For me, working out is to zone out and just be you. Who cares what you look like?

Even when I haven't played in a while, I can sit down and start with a chord, and just drop into it. It's like this tunnel I go into. The zone is where I want to live.

I get in that zone, even if I'm relaxing or whatever, where I just zone out. I don't even hear anybody. You could ask me a question five times, and I don't even hear it.

I'm really lucky because I can sleep on planes. I wear an eye mask, I have a book, and I sit down and pass out pretty easily. I know that not everyone can. I think I'm good at it because I travel so much, and for me, being on planes is like a sacred time. It's the only time to zone out and meditate.

Hair and makeup has become part of my pre-competition routine. It's a quiet time, when I can reflect, I can put on some music - and I can mentally get in the zone of performance.

Every man who has lived his life to the full should, by the time his senior years are reached, have established a reserve inventory of unfinished thinking.

What is reading but silent conversation?

Books think for me.

Reading, like prayer, remains one of our few private acts.

A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.

The fewer the words, the better prayer.

For him who has no concentration, there is no tranquility.

Doodling is the brooding of the hand.

If you are seeking creative ideas, go out walking. Angels whisper to a man when he goes for a walk.

The time when, most of all, you should withdraw into yourself is when you are forced to be in a crowd.

He who reflects too much will achieve little.

The most potent and sacred command which can be laid upon any artist is the command: wait.

When one devotes oneself to meditation, mental burdens, unnecessary worries, and wandering thoughts drop off one by one; life seems to run smoothly and pleasantly. A student may now depend on intuition to make decisions. As one acts on intuition, second thought, with its dualism, doubt and hesitation, does not arise.

Sum up at night what thou has done by day.

There was a wise man in the East whose constant prayer was that he might see today with the eyes of tomorrow.

The way to do is to be.

I am searching for that which every man seeks-peace and rest.

The temple of silence and reconciliation.

It is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.