Forest Whitaker Quotes

I've done a lot of meditation studying on my own, but I've also taken a couple of transcendence classes.

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

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

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.

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

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Meditation is the life of the soul: Action, the soul of meditation; and honor the reward of action.

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

Meditation means cleansing the mirror, dropping thoughts, letting thoughts disappear, attaining to moments when thinking ceases. And those are the most blissful moments in life. Once you have tasted a single moment of no-thought, you have taken a great leap into truth; then things will become more and more easy every day.

I call myself a meditation teacher rather than a spiritual teacher.

I'd like to learn to meditate with more enthusiasm. I can sit down and get quiet for 20 minutes, but it just has not been a part of my Christianity at all.

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

Well, I'm Buddhist, Ray, and so part of my Buddhism has allowed me to look a little more deeply at people and the events in my life that created me. And I think a lot of that Buddhism comes out in the world view in this novel.

Meditation is a vital practice to access conscious contact with your highest self.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

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

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

When we cultivate mystical awareness or transcendent identity - which is a natural outgrowth of meditation and other practices - what happens is that we begin to take a witness position on our own lives, and that includes our minds.

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.

I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.

I am a firm believer that one way to become enlightened is to be so relaxed, as relaxed as you possibly can be.

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss.

If we know the divine art of concentration, if we know the divine art of meditation, if we know the divine art of contemplation, easily and consciously we can unite the inner world and the outer world.