Michelle Branch Quotes

When I create an image that helps someone - even just myself - find peace, then I've attained my goal.

When it is working, you completely go into another place, you're tapping into things that are totally universal, completely beyond your ego and your own self. That's what it's all about.

I can hardly find the words to describe the peace I felt when I was acting. My dysfunctional self could actually plug in to another self, not my own, and it felt so good.

You have to be able to center yourself, to let all of your emotions go... Don't ever forget that you play with your soul as well as your body.

I find peace anywhere I go. It depends on what is within the walls of my own home.

We have to learn to go beyond both a positive mind and a negative mind to become a silent, nonjudgmental, non-analytical, non-interpretiv e mind. In other words, the silent witness. In the process of silent witnessing, we experience inner silence. In the purity of silence, we feel connected to our source and to everything else.

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity.

When your higher self is present, it always promotes peace.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

Sometimes I journal three pages, sometimes I journal thirty pages, but I'm writing all the time, and whatever's happening is happening in real time for me.

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

I haven't had a single thought for 26 years. I have only understanding. It's somewhat complicated to understand that. I've hardly ever spoken about it. You're in a state of total peace of mind. A kind of nirvana.

I do not want the peace which passeth understanding, I want the understanding which bringeth peace.

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

Chaotic people often have chaotic lives, and I think they create that. But if you try and have an inner peace and a positive attitude, I think you attract that.

There is real beauty in my eyes when I lose my mind.

Singing is a form of meditation... apparently the only one that I have command over.

Meditation is the dissolution of thoughts in Eternal awareness or Pure consciousness without objectification, knowing without thinking, merging finitude in infinity.

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

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

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

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

If we have not peace within ourselves, it is in vain to seek it from outward sources.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Yoga has brought me closer to myself. It's helped me realize the interconnectedness of the mind, body and spirit, in the Buddhist sense of the word.