Jim James Quotes

I meditate. I need that time to stay true to who I am.

To meditate means to go home to yourself. Then you know how to take care of the things that are happening inside you, and you know how to take care of the things that happen around you.

I had benefited so much from Vipassana, I felt it was important for many more people to be able to share the experience.

I think to say that meditation is helpful to artists is true and it's great, but it's also essentially helpful to any kind of process of, just, life.

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.

The mantra that you're given in Transcendental Meditation you keep to yourself. The reason being, true happiness is not out there, true happiness lies within.

It's been my experience that the longer I do yoga, the more I want to know, the more I am able to understand and the less judgmental I am.

You can take Elvis. You can take Marilyn Monroe. Success and fame will not be the answer if something inside of you is bothering you, if things in your mind aren't going right.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

When you practice Buddhism, you have to always self-reflect, and you can't avoid your problems. That makes me understand human beings better. I feel that the more I do that in my own life, the more I can see how to play a character.

I wanted to share the experience of how yoga and meditation have transformed my life, how they have enabled me to observe who I am, first in my body, and then emotionally, and on to a kind of spiritual path.

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

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.

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

I just want to find some inner peace, and I think I'm getting there, slowly but surely.

Self-care is so much more than a beauty regimen or an external thing you do. It has to start within your heart to know what you need to navigate your life. A pedicure doesn't last, but meditating every day does.

Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.

I have been meditating for 40 years. It makes it a bit easier to know who you are.

Nobody can bring you peace but yourself.

If you have faith, then your whole life is put in a new perspective. You get to work but enjoy the work at the same time. If you grow spiritually, you do what's in front of you and let the results speak for themselves.

Meditation has really done wonders for me personally and artistically.

We are all on a journey to mastering our inner peace.