Russell Simmons Quotes

"We don't take sufficient time to meditate." I get up early in the morning...five o'clock, when my mind and spirit are clear and rested. Then I meditate.

I actually really do meditation and then I spend my morning reading.

I meditate on a regular basis and reap benefits from this practice

The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion

Being still at least once a day will enhance your life.

I love just sitting quietly meditating. With an hour free, it depends. I love getting down on the floor and playing with my kids.

If you don't know how to meditate at least try to spend some time every day just sitting.

Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop—to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

I feel like someone who's meditating could possibly benefit their meditation practice and their well-being just by sitting down and thinking about things that they love for ten minutes.

I'm really starting to learn the value of silence and meditation. I keep my sanity in the middle of a hectic day by taking some me time or sometimes watching a guilty pleasure on TV, doing absolutely nothing, or just hanging out with friends and family. They keep me grounded and centered.

For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating.

We meditate so we can see miracles unfolding. Without stillness life is a blur.

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.

Yoga has allowed me to bring my complete spirit together, which allows me to do less, which is more.

Smile, smile, smile at your mind as often as possible. Your smiling will considerably reduce your mind's tearing tension.

Nearly everybody I know does something to try to remove herself to clear her head and to have enough time and space to think... All of us instinctively feel that something inside us is crying out for more spaciousness and stillness to offset the exhilarations of this movement and the fun and diversion of the modern world.

I try to find 15 minutes a day to just be alone without any distractions just for headspace to meditate and get my Zen on. I think that helps me get through the hecticness of the day on tour with the interviews, the sound check, the meet and greets, the show and the post-show meet and greets.

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.

I usually meditate twice a day: Transcendental Meditation.

Meditation is certainly not a religion, cult, or spiritual path: it's actually a very basic practice to reduce stress.

I could actually be wasting my time by not meditating, as I'd be more stressed out.

I have to meditate before I go to bed, always. I have to let the day go and let the eternal in.

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.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.