Tina Turner Quotes

I pray, read the word, and then creative stuff happens here. Problem-solving and all of that comes into that space. So 'Da Box' actually represents my sanctuary and that time. I might look trapped in a box, but I'm actually more free in that box than anyone on the outside looking in or in any other space in my life.

The first step of letting go: To remove what obstructs your experience of wholeness and peace, you must first look at the obstruction.

You are free when you gain back yourself,” Madame Wu said. “You can be as free within these walls as you could be in the whole world. And how could you be free if, however far you wander, you still carry inside yourself the constant thought of him? See where you belong in the stream of life. Let it flow through you, cool and strong. Do not dam it with your two hands, lest he break the dam and so escape you. Let him go free, and you will be free.

A certain giving up of control is good for the soul.

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.

I don't read anything about myself. As a child, there was something in me that was just instinctive. I want to be clear in my spirit, and I don't want to be blocked by things that get inside of you and kill you.

One of the greatest necessities in America is to discover creative solitude.

To know yourself as the Being underneath the thinker, the stillness underneath the mental noise, the love and joy underneath the pain, is freedom, salvation, enlightenment.

By taking to the road, we free ourselves of baggage, both physical and psychological. We walk back to our original condition, to our best selves.

I'm inspired by throwing out any darkness that is inside of me. For me, art cures.

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

Right before I decided to come out, I went on a spiritual retreat called 'Changing the Inner Dialogue of Your Subconscious Mind.' I'd never been to anything like it before, and all my friends were taking bets on how long I'd last with no TV, no radio, no phone. But for me that was the beginning of paying attention to all the little things.

With renunciation life begins.

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.

The best way to navigate through life is to give up all of our controls.

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.

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

I'm lighter now in a lot of ways.

Our pain hides beneath these fluttering, random thoughts that run through our heads in an endless loop. But there's so much freedom in getting to know what's under there, the bedrock.

Music enables me to cleanse and shed the things that I feel are holding me back from growing, or growing up.

Writing is something that's great because you get to write every thought that's on your mind; you take your time.

I try to dig deep into my soul to figure out something positive in the pain. I think I go to certain places when I play to heal.

Whoever doesn't know it must learn and find by experience that 'a quiet conscience makes one strong!'

I meditate. I need that time to stay true to who I am.