George Harrison Quotes

I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.

Peak performance is meditation in motion.

Meditation creates more time than it takes.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Mindfulness creates centered awareness. When you do one thing at a time, you're guaranteed excellent results. If you do too many things simultaneously, it messes up your neural circuits. Focus on one thing at a time.

Ideas come as you walk, Nietzsche said. Walking dissipates thoughts, Shankara taught.

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.

Breathing is central to every aspect of meditation training. It's a wonderful place to focus in training the mind to be calm and concentrated.

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

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

However, I began meditating at about that time and have continued on and off over the years.

Mindfulness is so powerful that the fact that it comes out of Buddhism is irrelevant.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

I was reading an article in the 'New York Times;' it talked about being in the zone, and being in the zone you're so focused that time ceases to exist. It's when you think, 'Oh, I've been doing this for five hours and didn't even know it.' It's the difference between hard work and going, '12 o'clock, not moving.'

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

The way I meditate is by being organised. I can get real Zen if I go home and tidy the front room.

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

Getting the ideas are a struggle for me. I'm doing better now that I use the concentration tapes. More unusual ideas.

I could actually be wasting my time by not meditating, as I'd be more stressed out.

As soon as I finish meditating, I get a beautiful feeling of expanded consciousness. When I'm in this headspace I can make so much progress in my writing.

Meditation helps you do less and accomplish more.