Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
David LynchRead
I like things that go into hidden, mysterious places, places I want to explore that are very disturbing. In that disturbing thing, there is sometimes tremendous poetry and truth.
Interpretation
The quote expresses the idea that exploring the dark and mysterious aspects of life can reveal profound beauty and truth.
David Lynch suggests that there is value in delving into the hidden and unsettling facets of existence. He implies that even in disturbing experiences or places, one can uncover deep poetry and essential truths that resonate on a profound level. This exploration encourages a deeper understanding of the human experience and the complexities of art and life.
In practice
During a film discussion, I would use this quote to emphasize the importance of exploring deeper themes.
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.
For his heart was in his work, and the heart giveth grace unto every art.
Artists and writers have to deal with the element that makes the real real and the dream real while you are dreaming it. That's where stories and poems get their power.
It is not enough to photograph the obviously picturesque.
Performance is there, and if you are not there in that moment it happened, it just stays in the memory. It's so immaterial and something this immaterial is very difficult to collect. Its difficult to buy, its how we can buy immaterial art.
When I am writing, I do not distinguish between the natural and supernatural. Everything seems real. That is my world, you could say.
Beginning a novel is always hard. It feels like going nowhere. I always have to write at least 100 pages that go into the trashcan before it finally begins to work. It's discouraging, but necessary to write those pages. I try to consider them pages -100 to zero of the novel.
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