We all have times that we get off center.
When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.
Balance is good, because one extreme or the other leads to misery, and I've spent a lot of my life at one of those extremes.
The most important thing is to focus, focus, focus.
Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.
Zen lives in the present. The Whole teaching is: how to be in the present; how to get out of the past which is no more and how not to get involved in the future which is not yet, and just to be rooted, centered, in that which is.
I think groundedness is definitely something I grew up with.
In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.
Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.
I try to stay grounded.
The technique's many benefits for actors include minimized tension, centeredness, vocal relaxation, and responsiveness, mind/body connection and about an inch and a half of additional height.
At the still point, there the dance is.
The one thing a creator can bring to the table when everybody else has all the money and power is centeredness and the ability to walk away. Never sit at a table you can't walk away from.
When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.
I try never to get too high or too low. You have to keep that medium.
Learn to be more meditative, and let your creativity be secondary to your meditativeness. Then you will have a totally different state of being - that of ecstasy; and out of ecstasy, whatever is created has also some flavor of it.
Remember always that the ultimate value is meditation, so anything you do, do meditatively; and all things can be done in a meditative way.
Learning how to be calm and centered in any situation is a skill for life, whatever you do.
I'm centered in who I am, and I'm really grateful. I'm not perfect.
We ought to be people of compassion. And being people of compassion means we deny ourselves, and our self centeredness.
The Tao doesn't take sides; it gives birth to both good and evil. The Master doesn't take sides; she welcomes both saints and sinners. The Tao is like a bellows: it is empty yet infinitely capable. The more you use it, the more it produces; the more you talk of it, the less you understand. Hold on to the center.
My friends tell me that I've calmed down, that I seem more centered. I don't know, I think my inner self was more hollow before, which made me more scattered, and more needy to get laughs.
Know that you have a center.Know that you belong there.Know that the path to the center takes no effort.
I really have always thought of myself as somebody who lives in the middle of the wheel and is able to go to the extreme, to the outside of the wheel in any direction. The best case scenario for me is to be able to be centered and then go out.
The lack of God-centeredness leads to self-centeredness.
