James Mooney Quotes

Music is a social act.

I like sitting and writing with my buddies.

No yoga. I can barely sit down.

I'll bring in UNO, and we'll play that on set.

I love salsa. I use to take salsa classes when I was a little girl with my mom.

I am not a party kind of a person. I like to sit down with friends with a drink and talk.

Music and dance have also always been a communal activity, something that everyone participated in. The thought of a musical concert in which a class of professionals performed for a quiet audience was virtually unknown throughout our species' history.

It is wonderful to see persons of sense passing away a dozen hours together in shuffling and dividing a pack of cards.

Things gain meaning by being used in a shared experience or joint action.

We can stop struggling with what occurs and see its true face without calling it the enemy. It helps to remember that our spiritual practice is not about accomplishing anything - not about winning or losing - but about ceasing to struggle and relaxing as it is. That is what we are doing when we sit down to meditate. That attitude spreads into the rest of our lives.

Do you know that conversation is one of the greatest pleasures in life? But it wants leisure.

I meditate. I do transcendental meditation and I have been doing that for a long time and that does just clear the mind. I am not religious at all.

There's No Such Thing as a Bad Meditation. Any Time you Spend in Silence is Valuable

I'm that person in the bar who's like, "Can they turn the music down? I would like to chat."

The true charm of pedestrianism does not lie in the walking, or in the scenery, but in the talking. The walking is good to time the movement of the tongue by, and to keep the blood and the brain stirred up and active; the scenery and the woodsy smells are good to bear in upon a man an unconscious and unobtrusive charm and solace to eye and soul and sense; but the supreme pleasure comes from the talk.

And went on in sunlight, into the Hofgarten, And drank coffee, and talked for an hour.

Chanting Hare Krishna is really the same sort of thing as meditation, but I think it has a quicker effect. I mean, even if you put your beads down, you can still say the mantra or sing it without actually keeping track on your beads.

Do you want - do you want - do you want to dance with me baby?

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

I am running on fumes, so it's time to get centered again. I start with eating healthier and cutting out caffeine - at least cutting back on caffeine. I exercise and get outside to play. I reconnect with my spiritual practice, which is daily meditation and prayer. Most importantly, I reconnect with my family and friends. If all else fails, a few deep breaths.

Yoga calms me down. It's a therapy session, a workout and meditation all at the same time!

Meditation means to be in non-doing. Meditation is not a doing but a state of being. It is a state of being in one's own self.

If we are to be happy, decent and secure of our souls: drink some kind of fermented liquor with one's food; go on the water from time to time; dance on occasions, and sing in a chorus.

All methods of meditation are nothing but methods to help you to remember the art of let-go.

I don't always win at this, but I know I do better when I meditate.