Trevor St. John Quotes

People suffer because they are caught in their views. As soon as we release those views, we are free and we don't suffer anymore.

I try not to think too much about what the audience is thinking and what they think I should do.

That non-attachment gives us the freedom to be exactly who we are.

What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

You can't improvise if you are tense. Or thinking too much. You have to really let it go.

Weezer isn't stuck in roles, so we just do what we want to do, what makes us excited.

Be present and in the moment.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

When you start worrying about form, then you're not in the moment.

To remember non-attachment is to remember what freedom is all about. If we get attached, even to a beautiful state of being, we are caught, and ultimately we will suffer. We work to observe anything that comes our way, experience it while it is here, and be able to let go of it.

Real change isn't found in some new way to think about yourself, but in freedom from the need to think about yourself at all.

I'm not that flashy in private; I'm usually pretty reserved. But on stage, it's about not being afraid of anything - of anyone judging you. It's one place you can be free. So why not sing as loud as you can, hoop and holler and jump around? A show is a moment. When it's done, it's over. I find that extremely liberating.

When I over-prepare, I try to let it all go and forget all about it when the camera rolls, so I can just be present with the other actors and allow what's going to happen to happen without too much preconception.

I don't look ahead. I'm right here with you. It's a good way to be.

Buddhist practices offer a way of saying, 'Hey, come back over here, reconnect.' The only way that you'll actually wake up and have some freedom is if you have the capacity and courage to stay with the vulnerability and the discomfort.

We hit a stride where all self-consciousness disappeared.

Now I don't put things in the boxes anymore. I'm just focusing on right now.

Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else.

Enlightenment is not something you achieve. It is the absence of something. All your life you have been going forward after something, pursuing some goal. Enlightenment is dropping all that.

This means that the mind or spirit is present anywhere, because it is nowhere attached to any particular place. And it can remain present because, even when related to this or that object, it does not cling to it by reflection and thus lose its original mobility.

One of the hardest things to do in acting is to stop thinking about yourself and stop being self-conscious.

I keep my hands empty for the sake of what I have had in them.

Man must do his part and detach himself from created things.

The essence of the Way is detachment.