Yoko Ono Quotes

You're always carrying something that's interfering. It's like static noise that doesn't have to be there, and you have to school yourself to clean that out.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

The more your meditation goes deep, the less and less you will feel the burden of the mind. The more and more meditation goes deep, the less and less you will be a mind. Thoughts will become rare, and ultimately they cease. That doesn't mean you become unthinking; it only means that your consciousness becomes clear, transparent, without thoughts moving continuously as clouds. Whenever you need to think you can think; but now thought becomes an instrument to you, not an obsession as it is presently. Thoughts are an obsession without meditation.

The greatest need of our time is to clean out the enormous mass of mental and emotional rubbish that clutters our minds

When I walk through that gate to the court, that's my escape. I block out everything, good and bad.

It's freeing to not be caught up in your own personal baggage.

If you're thinking clearly and are content about where your life is - to where you can just think about the present, think about the now - that's what you need to do to hit good golf shots. I know there are a lot of distractions, but when you're thinking clearly, you're more free. You've got to have that freedom on the golf course.

Fear clogs; faith liberates.

I think when things linger, that's when they become a distraction. I don't want any distractions.

Don't just let the devil use your mind as a garbage dump.

Getting things straight in your head is a major achievement because there's so much clutter out there. You've got to push aside the static to really hear the music.

Freedom is not overcoming what you think stands in your way. It is understanding that what is in your way is part of the way.

It is when we are trapped in incessant streams of compulsive thinking that the universe really disintegrates for us, and we lose the ability to sense the interconnectedness of all that exists.

Emerson, I am trying to live, as you said we must, the examined life. But there are days I wish there was less in my head to examine, not to speak of the busy heart.

Don't carry a grudge. While you're carrying the grudge, the other guys's out there dancing.

Let your heart travel lightly. Because what you bring with you becomes part of the landscape.

Because you can get free of everything except the space where things have been

What happens is that you discover you're carrying so much weight that 90 percent of what you thought yesterday you are thinking about today and will think about again tomorrow. Your mind doesn't change because you are carrying too large a load. So the mind is caught. It's seized by its own structures. It can't consider different ways of thinking or doing or being or relating. It's all you can do with your psychic energy to keep pulling yourself along with this huge bag that you are dragging behind you.

Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as good if you keep a clear mind. But if you don't keep a clear mind, and are only following your thinking as you mouth the words, even the Buddha cannot help you.

The moment I think about past letdowns or future hypotheticals, I mentally put myself on shaky ground. If I clear my mind of chatter, I can succeed, just like I did in 2006.

Worrying about next, tomorrow cripples our ability to think, act and exercise faith in the present and the present only is ours.

I'm a big thinker, and sometimes I think too much, and my brain can get in the way of myself.

The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard - one that thinks too much.

Life truly is a journey, and the less baggage we carry the easier the ride.

When people will not weed their own minds, they are apt to be overrun by nettles.