Quotes About Meditation

Mindfulness is often spoken of as the heart of Buddhist meditation. It's not about Buddhism, but about paying attention. That's what all meditation is, no matter what tradition or particular technique is used.

Meditation is a really powerful tool I have for life now. The only reason I know about it is because I was stressing about writing and a friend taught me it. It's been useful.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.

I find humming is very useful.

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

When I was younger, I could do something useful just by being free for half a day, but now I need five days to get the world I've left out of my head and ten days or a fortnight not talking to anyone to hold what I need to hold inside my head.

I find it quite useful to be alone when I'm making music, but also in general, in life.

Meditation is practical, simple, and very useful. Taking even 30 seconds to rest your attention on your breath instead of following the cycle of your thoughts can bring you back to you in a heart beat.

Transcendental meditation in particular is very useful in terms of unlocking those deeper parts of the subconscious where ideas are floating.

For me, meditation is a practice to get rid of useless junk cluttering my mind and useless ticks inhabiting my body.

Meditation is a practice that is considered mainstream: The NFL uses it, the NBA uses it, heart patients use it. It's very easy to consider yourself a meditator and not be too alternative-minded.

If you use your mind to study reality, you won't understand either your mind or reality. If you study reality without using your mind, you'll understand both.

Using simple equipment and daylight alone is for me a pleasure and a replenishment.

When you drive, you are doing several things at once. You are using your eyes, ears, hands, your mind. If you have meditated for many years and have reached a lofty height in your meditation, as I have, you can meditate while running and cycling and painting.

I wake up a little before six, and I go right to my study. That's where I do my daily reading of the Oswald Chambers book, 'My Utmost for His Highest.'

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

I was so intrigued by insects and things that crawled or flew - I could spend hours by myself in a vacant lot.

I love the clothes, I love the discipline. It's all encompassing. You play golf for two hours and you feel like you went on a two-hour vacation. It's like meditation.

Books have literally powered most of my life. Whether as a stress relief when doing hard things or as vacation fodder, they are a constant and important part of my life.

He was somebody who made me think, I suppose, about the contemplative life. I've always been a city fellow, but I've often had vague thoughts about 'checking out' and perhaps going into a monastery and just seeing what it was like.

One cannot long remain so absorbed in contemplation of emptiness without being increasingly attracted to it. In vain, one bestows on it the name of infinity; this does not change its nature.

To hike out alone in the desert; to sleep on the valley floor on a night with no moon, in the pitch black, just listening to the boom of silence: you can't imagine what that's like.

I once tried thinking for an entire day, but I found it less valuable than one moment of study.

My 'aloneness' is extremely valuable to me.