Bernie Siegel Quotes

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

The gigantic tension before the shooting of an arrow, and the total relaxation seconds later, is my way of connecting to the universe.

Transcendental Meditation, for me, has been a way of turning down the outside racket and turning up the bandwidth of instinct, intuition, concentration, attention. On the light ends, it's a power nap. On the strong ends, it's a giant battery, and that battery doesn't run out.

Meditation has taught me to be in the present moment and observe the present moment at the same time. Just breathe, follow your breath, and your intuition can take you from there.

I sit quietly and repeat my mantra until I'm in a meditative state, taking it all in but not focusing on any one thing.

Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal.

There is nothing finer than to be alone with nothing to distract you.

Today I will focus on a peaceful pace, rather than a harried one. I will keep moving forward gently, not frantically. I will let go of my need to be anxious and upset and will replace these feelings with calmness and harmony.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

Don't talk. I can't hear myself see.

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

In the Western world there isn't much value given to the necessity for just being quiet. And just resting, and just being, without a focus or a goal. At least a certain amount in our lives - we don't need to do half and half; it's okay if we're doing a lot of doing, we just need some being mixed in.

Stillness is training for action.

I get clarity through quiet time, reflection, reading, and meditation. Finding the space between thoughts gives me the energy to take on new challenges with enthusiasm.

The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

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.

Focus on stillness, rather than on movement

Don't judge yourself; simply return your attention to what's in front of you right now.

Simply wait, be quiet, still The world will freely offer itself to you.

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

Holding still for a moment, what a moment this is, Oh for a moment of forgetting, a moment of bliss