Lou Reed Quotes

Not long ago, in response to a spell of insomnia, I learned some of the principles of meditation, to empty my mind piece by piece. It was like the old game of jacks - cautiously lifting each jack clear of its neighbor until only the empty background remained.

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.

The problem with meditating is I generally go to sleep, and that's because I'm doing it wrong.

Learning to meditate is one of my earliest memories. I started when I was maybe three or four. I mean, I didn't know I was meditating. I just thought it was a weird game my dad had invented.

I've never meditated in my life. I don't practice yoga nor any religion. I'm a tourist on the realm of stillness.

I meditate in the morning, and my daughter will do it with me, looking like the most perfect little Buddha. I'll do ten minutes of yoga, then two to ten minutes of meditation. She'll sit there quietly half the time.

One of the things I have been getting into is meditation. Sometimes it is just 5-10 minutes per day, lying on my bed and listening to a meditation app on my phone to try to calm my mind.

Everything has to do with meditation. It's a conversation; it's a joy - it's everything.

Meditation helps you do less and accomplish more.

Meditation does not mean you have to grin every moment of your life, but to learn to let your bones smile.

Meditation is an opportunity to move into a dimension where there is no such thing as stress within you.

Go slowly, breathe and smile.

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.

When I do something that's stressful, I have to find a moment of peace, so I tend to meditate and get in the flow. It's a regular practice of mine.

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

I had a friend who introduced me to a meditation practice which involves a couple of half-hours a day of meditation, where essentially you try to achieve a stillness that allows you to just be there in the moment.

Everywhere I go, I still have time to meditate. People think meditating is sitting there, nobody bothering you, but you can even talk and still meditate.

You don't have to believe anything, adopt a dogma in order to learn how to meditate.

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

I do a little bit of yoga-style meditation. Relaxing and breathing even just one minute a day makes a big difference.

I feel like I'm calmer, I'm kinder, I'm more patient the more I do my own meditation.

To me, meditation is simply silencing or focusing the mind.

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body.