James Altucher Quotes

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

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

Sit in meditation ! But do not think ! Look only at your mind ! You will see thoughts coming into it ! Before they can enter, throw these away from your mind till your mind is capable of entire silence.

The true creativity comes out of sitting silently. When you are so totally quiet that there is no thought, no wave in the ocean of your being, out of this silence comes a different kind of creativity.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

I try to do a lot of yoga and meditation. I think now it's creating things in times of waiting.

Real creativity comes only out of silence.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

Take time to be quiet.

Whenever you step out of the noise of thinking, that is meditation, and a different state of consciousness arises.

I need more and more silence, it feels. Poems don't leap into my mind when I'm distracted, turned outward, with other people, listening to music.

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Only when you drink from the river of silence shall you indeed sing.

If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

I think there's too much mult-tasking going on. I think people need to quiet down and focus and be still more.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

'Silence,' I think, was the hardest, because it's so different from everything we've done before and required very delicate handling and trying to find the right meditative pace.

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

Never underestimate the power of sitting quietly.

In silence, we are better able to listen to and understand ourselves; ideas come to birth and acquire depth... Deeper reflection helps us to discover the links between events that at first sight seem unconnected... For this to happen, it is necessary to develop an appropriate environment, a kind of 'eco-system' that maintains a just equilibrium between silence, words, images and sounds.