Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
David LynchRead
When you practice Transcendental Meditation you are given a key to the deepest level of life.
Interpretation
Transcendental Meditation unlocks profound insights into life.
This quote by David Lynch suggests that through the practice of Transcendental Meditation, one can access the most profound aspects of existence. It implies that meditation serves as a tool or 'key' that opens the door to deeper understanding and awareness of life beyond the surface level.
In practice
During a mindfulness workshop, I quoted David Lynch to emphasize the importance of meditation in understanding oneself.
Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
You don't need a special place to meditate. You can transcend anywhere in the world. The unified field is here, and there, and everywhere.
There's a safety in thinking in a diner. You can have your coffee or your milkshake, and you can go off into strange dark areas, and always come back to the safety of the diner.
Music as background to me becomes like a mosquito, an insect. In the studio we have big speakers, and to me that's the way music should be listened to. When I listen to music, I want to just listen to music.
Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there.
In todayβs world of fear and uncertainty, every child should have one class period a day to dive within himself and experience the field of silence - bliss - the enormous reservoir of energy and intelligence that is deep within all of us. This is the way to save the coming generation.
Fantasy is an exercise bicycle for the mind. It might not take you anywhere, but it tones up the muscles that can. Of course, I could be wrong.
Don't take too seriously all that the neighbors say. Don't be overawed by what the experts say. Don't be afraid to trust your own common sense.
You, and you alone, get to determine whether you are going to react positively about something or negatively about something - or, interestingly, have no reaction at all. Your emotions are entirely under your control. Your feelings are what you want them to be.
Refuse to allow yourself to become a vegetable that simply absorbs information, pre-packaged, pre-ideologized , because no message.. is anything but an ideological package that has gone through a kind of processing.
It is a modern tragedy that despair has so many spokesmen, and hope so few.
It's important to remember that people are always doing the best they can, including you.
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