Quotes About Meditation

You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way.

Every Halloween for six years, I was a Ninja Turtle, and Mikey was my favorite. The turtles really made me who I am today. They got me into martial arts, meditation, surfing, skateboarding; big time influence on who I am today.

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

I was about twenty and the Beatles were meditating and I heard about it and they had a center in New York and I came to the center and I learned about it.

Twice and thrice over, as they say, good is it to repeat and review what is good.

During meditation your metabolism and your breath rate go down to a level of rest, twice that of deep sleep.

Twice a year, I take myself off to a self-imposed 'writer's retreat', staying at a small inn or on a friend's farm, where I am all alone and do nothing other than write.

I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

I meditate, which I really like. Just 20 minutes twice a day and that really helps.

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

One thing I do personally started 20 years ago. I started meditating, and I know twice a day I can kind of let everything drop. It's just about being quiet, like drawing back the day, and it allows me to have energy.

I was constantly looking for things outside of myself to make me feel good, and I think now that feeling can come from the inside, and that's why I meditate now twice a day.

I meditate, and I try to do that twice a day.

I make sure to meditate at least twice a day. I have migraines, and transcendental meditation is hugely helpful in combating them.

'Me-tox' means doing what works for you; for me, that's 20 minutes of meditation, twice a day.

I think I should be here alone to rethink the world, I do. I want these lesser humans gone.

How to transcend the senses without disturbing the health is what we want to learn.

When I'm in my 50s, I kind of think I'll want to be in a garden.

I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.

He who lives wisely to himself and his own heart looks at the busy world through the loopholes of retreat, and does not want to mingle in the fray.

I do not understand why people want to control their minds. I want them to liberate their minds.

Why is the mind incapable of deciding its own subject matter? Why when we desperately want to think of one thing to we invariably think of another?

He (the sage) wants all things to follow their own nature, but dares not act.

Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties; and yet their only excuse is a want of thought.