Al Oerter Quotes

Re-investing in one's own little moments of insight is very important.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

Nowhere can man find a quieter or more untroubled retreat than in his own soul.

The best way of forgetting how you think you feel is to concentrate on what you know you know.

My life day in and day out is accessing my emotions and bringing them to the forefront.

I feel like I'm in my own head a lot; it just feels amazing, but scary, weird and confusing.

Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you're diving in and experiencing the Self, you're not closing yourself off from the world. You're strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.

Meditation is just a courage to be silent and alone. Slowly slowly, you start feeling a new quality to yourself, a new aliveness, a new beauty, a new intelligence—which is not borrowed from anybody, which is growing within you. It has roots in your existence.

The more intense the nature of a man, the more readily will he find meditation, and the more successfully will he practice it.

The man who can articulate the movements of his inner life need no longer be a victim of himself, but is able slowly and consistently to remove the obstacles that prevent the spirit from entering.

After all it is those who have a deep and real inner life who are best able to deal with the irritating details of outer life.

We are shaped by our thoughts; we become what we think. When the mind is pure, joy follows like a shadow that never leaves.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

I'm doing my best to be mindful about how I'm living: to be kind and patient, and not to impose a bad mood on somebody else. Being mindful is as good a way to be spiritual as anything else.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

Once you get in a position where your rent is taken care of and you do have a job, you really get to deal with yourself and really become one with yourself. And you wake to your mind every day. That's your best friend and your worst enemy - your own brain.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

It's all in the mind, you know.

I thought when I started meditation that I was going to get real calm and peaceful and it's going to be over. It's not that way; it's so energetic. That's where all the energy and creativity is.

Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

So I started chanting when I was nineteen, which was about twelve years ago, and it really had a huge impact on my outlook, happiness, and general creativity.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

A man is hindered and distracted in proportion as he draws outward things to himself.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.