I go to the Himalayas after every film. I go alone. I go to the interiors, to the villages. Being there itself is like meditation.
I do transcendental meditation, which is, I suppose, derived from Vedic or Ayurvedic principles, which is sort of Hindu principles.
When I was in meditation, God began to speak to me, and God said, ‘Roland, I have enough preachers. I need people where you are in your positions. When you are on radio, when you are on television, you speak into more people in the five minutes than some preachers speak to in an entire year.’
Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.
Whether we can call ‘Hell or High Water’ this rogue buddy bank-heist movie, it’s also a meditation on assimilation and failure and what happens when someone loses their purpose.
I have done various yoga and meditation courses and Kriya yoga as well. This has enabled me to get rid of my frequent headaches, feel more energetic, sleep better and also an enhanced perception of smell, taste and intuition.
Loads of people talk about meditation and what it can do for your anxiety and I just really struggle to do traditional meditation. When they say, ‘Lay still and empty your brain,’ the minute I lay still, is the minute I think about everything that’s going on.
Meditation is the tongue of the soul and the language of our spirit.
For me, training is my meditation, my yoga, hiking, biking all rolled into one. Wake up early in the morning, generally around 4 o’clock, and I’ll do my cardio on an empty stomach. Stretch, have a big breakfast, and then I’ll go train.
Meditation is not to avoid society; it is to look deep to have the kind of insight you need to take action. To think that it is just to sit down and enjoy the calm and peace, is wrong.
The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.
Entrepreneurs spend an inordinate amount of time inside of our own heads – thinking, analyzing, agonizing and obsessing over every little detail of our business. Sometimes, we need a break from ourselves. Meditation is a chance to let the thinking mind rest.
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.
I’ve spent quite a bit of my life as a meditation teacher and writer commending the strengths of love and compassion.
Abundant choice doesn’t force us to look for the absolute best of everything. It allows us to find the extremes in those things we really care about, whether that means great coffee, jeans cut wide across the hips, or a spouse who shares your zeal for mountaineering, Zen meditation, and science fiction.
I’ve started doing yoga and meditation, but I’m not very good at that kind of thing and turning my brain off.
‘The Invitation’ is a meditation on grief and loss carried within a suspense drama. At its core, it’s about a dinner party gone horribly wrong and about the consequences of denying our pain.
It turns out that our ability to connect with other people is driven by our ability to connect deeply with ourselves. And that can be just a few minutes sitting on your porch feeling the breeze against your face. That can be a few moments spent in meditation or in prayer or remembering three things you’re grateful for.
I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.
I run every day. It keeps me sane and it’s my meditation.
Playing music and singing are my forms of meditation.
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 now make meditation a daily part of my life. Ideally, I would find 20 minutes, twice a day, to sit and meditate with an app I have on my phone. In reality, on most days, I only get the chance to do it once. But it is still incredibly valuable.
Photography is an immediate reaction, drawing is a meditation.
Meditation is the bridge that helps connect you with your inner self. I believe that quietude also makes one more creative.
I usually go straight for coffee when I wake up. I start my day with a half hour meditation… but only after a cup of coffee. Caffeination with meditation might sound funny, but it’s how I don’t fall back asleep in the morning!
I’m a big online everything. But for me, shopping online started with music, obviously, then it went onto books, meditation CDs, and I just recently bought these electronic cigarettes. My husband is trying to quit smoking, so I went online and I bought those BluCigs cigarettes in every flavor for him.
Half an hour’s meditation each day is essential, except when you are busy. Then a full hour is needed.
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
I don’t have tapes of meditation, but I put on the meditation station. I did as a player, too. I used to always play the game before the game happened. As a coach, I do the same thing.
You can fix your body, your heart, your diabetes. In Korea, China, and India, there are people who do yoga. They go to the mountains and do breath-in, breath-out meditation. They can live 500 years and not get sick. Keeping their bodies for a long time is possible; even flying in the sky is possible.
Celebrities can suffer a horrible loneliness even though they have millions of fans. I started doing meditations because I realized that a spiritual path was necessary.
By turning your eyes on God in meditation, your whole soul will be filled with God. Begin all your prayers in the presence of God.
To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.
Transcendental meditation is an ancient mental technique that allows any human being to dive within, transcend and experience the source of everything. It’s such a blessing for the human being because that eternal field is a field of unbounded intelligence, creativity, happiness, love, energy and peace.
Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself!
Meditation has really done wonders for me personally and artistically.
I listen to a lot of Tibetan music before I sleep. I’ll just type in ‘Tibetan meditation music’ on YouTube, and within 15 minutes, it knocks me out. I sleep like a baby.
Meditation helps me to calm down.
Meditation is such a more substantial reality than what we normally take to be reality.
Self-awareness is not just relaxation and not just meditation. It must combine relaxation with activity and dynamism. Technology can aid that.
Some people awaken spiritually without ever coming into contact with any meditation technique or any spiritual teaching. They may awaken simply because they can’t stand the suffering anymore.
The seated lotus postures are an amazing way to go into meditation, or simply just to take a moment to ground oneself.
Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.
I am very lucky that I have talented and creative people around me. Also, meditation has been a very big part of my freedom, because it allows me to watch all the things going on and allows me to focus.
Meditation is to get insight, to get understanding and compassion, and when you have them, you are compelled to act.
Exercise, prayer, and meditation are examples of calming rituals. They have been shown to induce a happier mood and provide a positive pathway through life’s daily frustrations.
Gardening is a working meditation for me. It helps me remember process, and it helps me remember patience.
I think meditation is good for the self. Having that moment with yourself and your mind is essential.
Meditation here may think down hours to moments. Here the heart may give a useful lesson to the head and learning wiser grow without his books.
I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.
I’ve done some meditation stuff like apps on my phone, but sometimes it’s just about breathing deeply taking some deep breaths and slowing my mind down and focusing and something simple that can really help quiet my mind.
I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.
Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.
The focus and the concentration and the attention to detail that flying takes is a kind of meditation. I find it restful and engaging, and other things slip away.
Meditation helps sharpen the mind.
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.
My mom was a practicing Hindu, and my dad was a Catholic who practiced yoga meditation and karma yoga. My earliest memories are of the bright colors, beautiful sounds, and fragrant aromas of both Christian and Hindu celebrations.
