Jet Li Quotes

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

I don't have to go to a mountain to meditate. I'm meditative in every moment of my life.

Meditation is about breathing, it's about clarity, taking your time and not rushing through your thinking.

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've been busy and need to slow my little tail down and sit and meditate somewhere. I do my walking meditations every day, but just to sit still. Just to be in one place and just to be quiet.

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.

When there are thoughts, it is distraction: when there are no thoughts, it is meditation.

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

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 certain ways in which I cultivate awareness, both through mindful yoga and taking care of my body and taking time to actually drop as deeply as possible into stillness, into whatever is unfolding in the present moment.

I meditate two hours a day, and every year I do one big long meditation course. I love it, and I'm really into it.

My earliest experiences in meditation were in a context of intensive retreats.

Be still with yourself until the object of your attention affirms your presence.

I prefer to be in tune with my surroundings and to be aware of things. I like listening to my foot strike and my breathing. It can be quite soothing.

Meditation is an essential aspect of my life.

Meditating, even for a little bit, is better than nothing.

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.

There's no substitute for the practice of meditation.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.

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

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 notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

To meditate is to familiarise our mind constantly and thoroughly with a virtuous object.

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