Pico Iyer Quotes

Meditation helps you do less and accomplish more.

I don't have a routine, but I have used meditation to just decompress and focus.

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

One of the things that has changed my life - and this comes from someone who was highly self-critical and a type-A personality - is meditating. The simple act of making my brain shut off for 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes at night may not seem like much, but what ends up happening, besides creating space in your day, is your awake posture begins to replicate your meditative posture.

Meditation is a powerful and full study as can effectually taste and employ themselves.

Meditation is a great way to keep my body well-centered while juggling shooting schedules and recording sessions.

Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.

Meditation helps us gain the capacity to relax, to connect with what is going on right here and right now, to connect with other people, to re-access our resourcefulness, our clarity and our ability to focus and keep an open heart.

The greatest tool to eliminate the noise is meditation.

Meditation has been a big change for me in a super-positive way. I see the result and strength and clarity - even my creativity is different and more connected. It might be 10 minutes a day; it might be 20 minutes a day. But every day in this crazy world, it's a sense of peace and purpose.

Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.

Yoga makes my day better as I am less likely to fall victim to my otherwise foolish & forgetful mind.

What I get on a yoga mat, and from a yoga teacher, has been more beneficial onstage than any other workshop I've ever done. And it starts with that breath; it starts with getting out of my head and really just slowing the system down and being in a true present moment with each and every breath. That then allows me to be a more balanced and focused individual onstage.

I try to meditate every morning. It relaxes me, clears my mind, and sets my day off on the right foot before things get too manic.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

Meditation was a turning point for me. It helped me deal with a lot of stress and has given me a lot of relaxation.

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

I just can't sit still and meditate; that doesn't kind of work for me. I don't even know exactly what it means.

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass.

I meditate and I'm passionate about it.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.