Famous Quotes & Sayings

Carol P. Christ

Watching birds has become part of my daily meditation affirming my connection to the earth body.

Brandi Carlile

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Alan Watts

Meditation is the way in which we come to feel our basic inseparability from the whole universe, and what that requires is that we shut up.

Alan Watts

You can make any human activity into meditation simply by being completely with it and doing it just to do it.

Chogyam Trungpa

You are actually doing something. You are getting into this process without making sure that what you're doing is okay. Things are actually taking place, almost of their own accord, very simply and directly. That is meditation.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.

Chogyam Trungpa

That is the basic pattern of this kind of meditation, which is based on three fundamental factors: first, not centralizing inward; second, not having any longing to become higher; and third, becoming completely identified with here and now.

Chogyam Trungpa

In the practice of sitting meditation you relate to your daily life all the time. Meditation practice brings our neuroses to the surface rather than hiding them at the bottom of our minds. It enables us to relate to our lives as something workable.

Chogyam Trungpa

Meditation should not be regarded as a learning process. It should be regarded as an experiencing process. You should not try to learn from meditation but try to feel it. Meditation is an act of nonduality. The technique you are using should not be separate from you; it is you, you are the technique. Meditator and meditation are one. There is no relationship involved.

Carlos Castaneda

Our senses perceive the way they do because a specific feature of our awareness forces them to do so...because we learn what to perceive.

Carlos Castaneda

You are like you are, because you tell yourself that you are that way.

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change. You change your way of looking, that's all

Carlos Castaneda

Things don't change, only the way you look at them.

Carl Andre

A place is an area within an environment that has been altered in such a way to make the general environment more conspicuous.

Agnes de Mille

I studied the way I danced- to the point of dropping.

Agnes Martin

Fulfill your potential. That's the way to happiness.

Agnes Martin

Doing what you were born to do … That's the way to be happy.

Agnes Varda

Sometimes I say, If I had seen some masterpieces, maybe I wouldn't have dared start. I started very - not innocent, but naïve in a way.

Janis Ian

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

I told Warren if he mentions Prop. 13 one more time, he has to do 500 push-ups.

Annie Dillard

I'm a housewife: I spend far more time on housework than anything else.

Sean Connery

I admit I'm being paid well, but it's no more than I deserve. After all, I've been screwed more times than a hooker.

Mark Twain

If I had more time, I would have written less.

Guy Finley

The more time we spend considering the shortcomings of others, the smaller a person we become.

Peter Dinklage

Call me Elf......one more time!

Sete Gibernau

With roadracing, it takes a lot more time and money.