George Harrison Quotes

Concentration is not the approach towards God. Concentration is a mind approach. God is everywhere, so you have to relax, you have to be meditative.

I pray. Prayer is a time to connect with the divine, but also time, I'm sure, to concentrate one's thoughts, to meditate, and to imagine what might be.

Chanting Hare Krishna is a type of meditation that can be practiced even if the mind is in turbulence. You can even be doing it and other things at the same time. That's what's so nice. In my life there's been many times the mantra brought things around. It keeps me in tune with reality, and the more you sit in one place and chant, the more incense you offer to Krishna in the same room, the more you purify the vibration, the more you can achieve what you're trying to do, which is just trying to remember God, God, God, God, God, as often as possible.

I still practice Transcendental Meditation and I think it's great. Marharishi only ever did good for us, and although I have not been with him physically, I never left him.

I find the practice of yoga very spiritual and taking the time to just be and to reflect through meditation and chanting helps me to connect to a higher energy.

God has blessed me with the capacity to meditate even while I am talking.

Chanting is a simple practice. When you notice you are thinking about something else during the chant, let go of the thought and come back home, to the chant, to that place where we are expressing our inner purity.

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.

Prayer is when you talk to God. Meditation is when you're listening. Playing the piano allows you to do both at the same time.

When I am practicing yoga, I try to avoid music. But if I really have to listen to something, I listen to the Om chant.

I meditate twice a day. I chant. I lean more towards Buddhist practices.

Take prayer with you wherever you go. Say it anytime, and then focus your mind and heart on God.

Remember that you can pray any time, anywhere. Washing dishes, digging ditches, working in the office, in the shop, on the athletic field, even in prison - you can pray and know God hears!

Prayer is the very highest energy of which the mind is capable.

Meditation is listening to the divine within

I believe that ultimately it all comes down to whether we seek conscious contact with God on a daily basis through prayer and meditation.

Meditation is waiting on God.

I hang out with my guru in my heart. And I love every thing in the universe. That's all I do all day.

When the yogi starts to meditate, he must leave behind all sensory thoughts and all longings for possessions by quieting the waves of feeling (chitta), and the mental restlessness that arises therefrom, through the application of techniques that reinstate the controlling power of the untrammeled superconsciousness of the soul.

Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God.

Prayer is the most concrete way to make our home in God.

I meditate and pray before going onstage - it helps me focus.

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

With no faith, purely as a scientific experiment, I started meditating and watched if it changed my music. It did, but it didn't make it more mellow. It made it easier to get into the flow of creativity.

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