Start a meditation session by repeating a mantra, perhaps, "Aum", which is the most powerful of all mantras. Then, after repeating the mantra perhaps a dozen times, focus on a yantra.
I always like to cite John Cage's mantra, "If you can stand it for two-minutes, try it for four. " In fact, when I look at some of those early films of mine, I think, "Oh my God. Cut it, cut it. " The general sense of duration has changed over the years, my own sensibility with it.
I have a mantra that kind of explains my feelings on this subject, which is, "The past is the present is the future. " When you're recording something, you're making something that will exist in the future.
I never forget my three word mantra: "Never start caring. "
I think the most important thing to remember is that pain passes. And artistically, the pain is going to pass. It's what you want to express out of the pain as opposed to indulging in the agony-and-pain mantra of songwriting that became such a hit in the '90s and still, all the way up to now.
For more than two decades, I repeatedly voiced the mantra that - situated as we are virtually on the coastline of the world's richest economy - Jamaica has no reason to be poor.
Feel your prayers, feel your mantra and you will feel God.
We should walk together, work together and progress together. We should move ahead with this mantra.
Lady Gaga listens to me. Her mantra is only one word - 'Bikram' - because Bikram makes her what she is today. It works.
The mantra is a very preliminary exercise for the student to begin to grasp a sense of focus. When they are used by persons who have reached very high levels of attention, they can open up doorways to other worlds.
My mantra is "Better is better".
My mantra is, 'This or something better. '
My new one (tattoo) says 'Never a failure, always a lesson' and is kind of my mantra to life, just a reminder. My life is just a crazy rollercoaster every day and whenever I read that it just reassures me.
My music has to do with imaginary things, so I took that concept and used the whole "the music is not the truth" mantra as a way to market myself.
Whenever I get down about life going by too quickly, what helps me is a little mantra that I repeat to myself: at least I'm not a fruit fly.
I have a mantra of my own that has helped me through the most chaotic of times. I remind myself that: I am the best, I have the best, and I deserve the best.
If it’s meant for me, it will be. ' Those words are my mantra in life, and it has never let me down.
My mantra was to educate people - to actually give them the know-how they could use - and to do it in a very subversive kind of way. I would entertain them, and I was going to teach them whether they knew it or not.
Chanting a mantra at the beginning of your meditation helps you clear the mind and takes you deep within the self. Chanting a mantra at the end of meditation helps you seal the meditation. It helps you bring the awareness of the meditation down into your daily life.
A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound. . . a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.
