Sri Aurobindo Quotes

I'd like to be more patient! I just want everything now. I've tried to meditate, but it's really hard for me to stay still. I'd like to try to force myself to do it, because everybody says how wonderful meditation is for you, but I can't shut my mind up. So patience and learning is the key.

I see martial arts as moving forms of meditation. When you're sparring or drilling techniques, you can't think of anything else.

Meditation is a lifelong process. Give it a try. As you get deeper and more disciplined into the process, you'll get deeper and more disciplined in your mind and life.

If you take an hour out of your day to meditate, you will progress ten-fold. By staying mentally focused, you can let your worries go.

Every morning, I do 10 minutes of mindfulness, where I do meditation, and I use that in competition and everyday life.

Meditation will sharpen your senses and your awareness.

If you are humble, your concentration will be very high. That's the way to go in sports.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

The degree of freedom from unwanted thoughts and the degree of concentration on a single thought are the measures to gauge spiritual progress.

Writing is a very focused form of meditation. Just as good as sitting in a lotus position.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

I always try meditation. Meditation means always keeping one mind, not-moving mind.

Golf is a spiritual game. It's like Zen. You have to let your mind take over.

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 meditate. Meditation helps me.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

In the beginning of my twenties, I started transcendental meditation. For years, I did nothing else. Every holiday, I went to courses. Meditation is a real simple instrument. You don't need a long beard or a sari. It's meant to bring you to yourself. It's as easy as that.

I meditate. Daily practice is essential to my life.

I decided to try celibacy because I heard it would help the meditation, and I tried meditation because I heard it would help with the music. So, it all really comes back to the music.

If you are vigilant and make a stern effort to reject every thought when it rises, you will soon find that you are going deeper and deeper into your own inner self, where there is no need for your effort to reject the thoughts.

Meditation helps me to calm down.

You don't meditate once and suddenly your life turns around. What it does is it lets you train your brain to be able to become more stable in an action-oriented way.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

I try to meditate.

I just try to play with more focus on myself; I don't worry too much about the other things that maybe gave me too much pressure in the past.