Even bad coffee is better than no coffee at all.
You need contrast and conflict in order to tell a story. Stories need to have dark and light, turmoil, all those things. But that does not mean the filmmaker has to suffer in order to show the suffering. Stories should have the suffering, not the people.
I started Transcendental Meditation in 1973 and have not missed a single meditation ever since. Twice a day, every day. It has given me effortless access to unlimited reserves of energy, creativity and happiness deep within.
It’s so freeing, it’s beautiful in a way, to have a great failure, there’s nowhere to go but up.
Intuition is knowingness, and this field of unbounded knowing, of knowingness, is within every human being. You start tapping into that and it becomes an ocean of solutions.
Mankind was not meant to suffer – bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.
We think we understand the rules when we become adults but what we really experience is a narrowing of the imagination.
All my movies are about strange worlds that you can’t go into unless you build them and film them. That’s what’s so important about film to me. I just like going into strange worlds.
Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. But wood can translate ideas, too. You have wood and then you get a chair. Some ideas are for different things.
Intuition is the key to everything, in painting, filmmaking, business – everything. I think you could have an intellectual ability, but if you can sharpen your intuition, which they say is emotion and intellect joining together, then a knowingness occurs.
Meditation is not a selfish thing. Even though you’re diving in and experiencing the Self, you’re not closing yourself off from the world. You’re strengthening yourself, so that you can be more effective when you go back into the world.
Absurdity is what I like most in life.
We want to generate the electricity of peace through music, and it’s a thrill to know that the super-creative, enthusiastic musicians of our world are with us to achieve this goal.
Life is filled with abstractions, and the only way to make heads or tails of it is going through intuition.
I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.
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.
I truly believe there is a field of peace within and that it can be enlivened and brought to the surface to be enjoyed by all.
Life is very, very complicated, and so films should be allowed to be, too.
You don’t dive for specific solutions; you dive to enliven that ocean of consciousness. Then your intuition grows and you have a way of solving those problems-knowing when it’s not quite right and knowing a way to make it feel correct for you. That capacity grows and things go much more smoothly.