Emilio Estevez Quotes

There's a difference between solitude and loneliness. I can understand the concept of being a monk for a while.

When you walk 10 hours, 11 hours a day by yourself, you are doing a walking meditation.

I go to the Himalayas after every film. I go alone. I go to the interiors, to the villages. Being there itself is like meditation.

Every few months, I would take off to the U.S., which had people wondering why I went away so often. My trips were always to meet my spiritual guru, Maaji, who is based in the U.S. I would always come back with clear mind and sure footing.

My imagination is a monastery and I am its monk.

Every one should find some suitable time, day or night, to sink into his depths, each according to his own fashion. Not every one is able to engage in contemplative prayer.

I have one room dedicated to just meditation.

When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.

It occurred to me that actors are selfish, and they think that the world revolves around them. For one year, I quit, and I went to an ashram in Bihar and went to Himalayas backpacking.

I believe that meditation is the highest spiritual practice, the pathway to God.

Priests and nuns actually meditated. It's not religious. It's about centering yourself.

Solitude helps you reflect.

Meditation is the straight flight of the mind to the Kingdom of Heaven present in the heart of everyone.

Strive to close the eyes of the body and open those of the soul and look into your own heart.

I would say to today's young minister, 'Be not afraid to give much time to solitary walks and meditation'.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear.

It isn't necessary that you leave home. Sit at your desk and listen. Don't even listen, just wait. Don't wait, be still and alone. The whole world will offer itself to you.

You can set your intention to better understand your soul, your spirit, through daily practices like prayer, yoga and meditation, etc.

Sometimes I long for a convent cell, with the sublime wisdom of centuries set out on bookshelves all along the wall and a view across the cornfields--there must be cornfields and they must wave in the breeze--and there I would immerse myself in the wisdom of the ages and in myself. Then I might perhaps find peace and clarity. But that would be no great feat. It is right here, in this very place, in the here and the now, that I must find them.

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

I aspire only to silence.

I realised success as an actor alone wouldn't make me happy. I needed to explore my spiritual side in more depth.

But being quiet and meditating on sound is something completely different and will be discovered very soon by a lot of people who feel that the visual world doesn't reach their soul anymore.

To ignore one's spiritual self is unsettling, to say the least. That's a very profound outlook on it.