George Harrison Quotes

Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That's what's so nice. In my life there's been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Krishna in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you're trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible.

My brother and I were meditating before we were 6 years old, having to stare at the wall and chant.

My day starts with the chanting of Gayatri Mantra and Om Namah Shivay. I chant them every time I bowl.

When I am practicing yoga, I try to avoid music. But if I really have to listen to something, I listen to the Om chant.

I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.

One of the main differences between silent meditation and chanting is that silent meditation is rather dependent on concentration, but when you chant, it's more of a direct connection with God.

I meditate. I've been a meditator since, I think I was doing it unofficially before all my life and then began to formalize it somewhere around 14.

Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.

In Buddhism there are words you can say... as you say the words with rhythm the conscious tells the subconscious.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

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.

I do fish. I think there is a connection between thinking and fishing mostly because you spend a lot of time up to your waist in water without a whole lot to keep your mind busy.

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.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

We tend to think of meditation in only one way. But life itself is a meditation.

I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

I'm not a yogi, but I know the sun salutation.

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

I meditate and do yoga. I sit cross-legged and try not to levitate too much.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

There are many different ways to practice meditation; it's good to experiment until you find one that seems to suit you.

Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.

I've been doing transcendental meditation every day on the road, and it's one of the best things I've ever done.