Quotes About Meditation

The mindfulness revolution is not quite as dramatic as the moon shot or the civil rights movement, but I believe, in the long run, it can have just as great an impact.

I don't really watch my moves all that often; I mean, really, I don't.

I like being alone. I need a lot of alone time as a human. And especially on a movie set when you're around people all day long.

Once the director calls for action, we act; we stop when he says 'Cut.' It is sort of like meditation - unknowingly, you are moving out of yourself, becoming someone else. That is why I consider acting a form of meditation.

When I did the Art of Living course in Mumbai in 1996, I really didn't know what to expect.

I am in my own head most of the time.

I like to take my time with things.

I restore myself when I'm alone.

Talking to other people about a part is not helpful for me. It's such an internal and complicated and still kind of mysterious process.

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

A thorn ripped a gash that he didn't feel. His body was far away from his mind. He leaned back and stared at a patch of sky through the intertwining limbs. Nothing made sense.

Mentally focus your attention on the part of you that needs healing. Now slowly take a deep breath, slowly filling your lungs to capacity while you send the oxygen to the part of you that needs healing. Now slowly breathe out, visualizing the ailing part being healed.

The way to peace is to be peaceful.

Now almost fifty years have passed since I discovered the I Ching, and I still read it regularly and use it as a guide. The wisdom of the I Ching is inexhaustible. As for the ability to obtain guidance from Tao, well, I don't know how anyone can get along without it.

If you cannot improve upon the silence, do not speak.

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

A] person whose head is bowed and whose eyes are heavy cannot look at the light.

Do you have any idea how hard it is for me to meditate when you're murdering someone

Do you have any idea how hard it is for me to meditate when your murdering someone?

Mirrors should reflect a little before throwing back images,' wrote Cocteau.

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

Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

as I contemplate dead hands and the loss of the transmission belts that connect me to writing and thinking.

If you can only quiet the Ego, soul and body begin to function of themselves, in