Ellen DeGeneres Quotes

Sometimes it's better to just be quiet, to not think of anything at all. Out of silence comes the greatest creativity.

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

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

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.

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.

Thinking is a momentary dismissal of irrelevancies.

Stop, stop. Do not speak. The ultimate truth is not even to think.

Another way to look at meditation is to view thinking itself as a waterfall, a cascading of thought. In cultivating mindfulness, we are going beyond or behind our thinking, much the way you might find a vantage point in a cave or depression in the rock behind a waterfall. We still see and hear the water, but we are out of the torrent.

One needs solitude and quiet to think. The cacophony of modern culture is designed to make that impossible.

Don't think of words when you stop but to see picture better.

I think people can find a breath and listen sometimes.

It's amazing how much information is coming at us most of the time through technology, the media and the busyness of the world around us. I've decided that the world probably isn't going to change, so I have to change. I'm learning how to keep my mind on what I'm doing, rather than thinking about several things at once or what I want to do next.

Most of us can easily do two things at once; what's all but impossible is to do one thing at once.

No distractions. Center yourself. This is your time.

And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

The Zen people from Ancient China, "When you're walking, just walk." It turns out to be the hardest thing.

Meditation is helping me learn to sit still. Twenty minutes of meditation in the morning is a nice way to start my day. If you can actually sit still and really get to that place of silence, you realize what's important and what's not important. Little things don't usually get to me anymore.

Let go of thought, become still and alert, and don't try to understand or explain.

Being still and doing nothing are two completely different things

Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.

Writing at least is a silent meditation even though you’re going a hundred miles an hour.