Ueli Steck Quotes

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

Nothing, to my way of thinking, is a better proof of a well-ordered mind than a man's ability to stop just where he is and pass some time in his own company.

I aspire only to silence.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

To really be centered and to really work well and to think about the kinds of things that I need to think about, I need to spend large amounts of time alone.

I try to meditate.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

But it's peculiar, as soon as I am in the midst of nature and by myself, everything that is base and trivial vanishes without trace. On such days nothing scares me; and this helps me again and again.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

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.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

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

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.

Being alone & actually sitting with our own thoughts can lead to such growth and realizations that are rare in our everyday busy lives.

I meditate. Meditation helps me.

We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

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.

I can meditate anywhere, anytime, even whilst talking to you.