Quotes About Meditation

When you're feeling stressed, your breath becomes more rapid and shallow. Take some slow, deep breaths, which will reduce your stress level almost immediately.

When I'm really stressed out, I go to church. I light candles and sit and pray. And I'll ask myself, What's the lesson? Why am I going through this? There's got to be a reason I'm here. What am I supposed to learn?

Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you're doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths.

I try to practice mindfulness at all times, including the times where I'm nervous and I'm stressed.

Your circulation will improve if you breathe right. And doing your best to try to relax when you're stressed out will improve your overall health.

Ive got lots of different types of worry beads and when Im feeling anxious or a little bit stressed, basically I worry. So I flick through them and the more anxious... I get, the faster I do it.

I talk to myself quite a lot, and when things get stressful, I just tell myself to breathe.

I always meditate before every show. I say a prayer with my crew and my band to get in the mode, and I also stretch because it's a very athletic show. We've got to entertain; it's what we do.

I won't train on the day of the fight but I'll stretch, stay loose, and then I'll meditate.

I don't want to be bothered when I'm stretching. I need to focus.

It's so important to read a book before bed and do some weird stretching.

The more you meditate on the laws of Moses, the more striking and brighter does their wisdom appear.

Men should strive to think much and know little.

I enjoy an evening stroll. It helps me to reflect and eases stress.

For me, the other thing is not just a strong sense of spirituality.

As soon as you try to eliminate a thought or emotion, you make it stronger.

I meditate a lot and pray for guidance. If, in a moment of self-contemplation or meditation, I were to feel very strongly that I shouldn't be an entertainer anymore, that I should be doing something else, I would stop immediately.

Playing yidaki, for me, is a meditation. It's incredibly deep breathing, but also, it's a structured process where you're circulating air.

There's nothing better than just staring at a buttercup, struggling to make an impact on the world.

You can't ever get everything you want. It is impossible. Luckily, there is another option: You can learn to control your mind, to step outside of the endless cycle of desire and aversion.

I used to be an open-spear fisherman, and if you're looking for fish, you're never going to see them. In an almost meditative state, you have to pick out anomalies, something out of the ordinary.

On stage, you have nothing to hide behind. It allows the work to live in a more organic place. It's almost like a meditation. You have to go on that stage and be as present as possible.

The Buddha is your real body, your original mind.

A holy day, after all, is a day for considering everything you otherwise think too little about.