Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.
David LynchRead
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.
Interpretation
Inner peace is accessible to everyone and can be realized for collective joy.
David Lynch suggests that each person has an inherent field of peace within them, which can be awakened and shared with others. This idea emphasizes the importance of discovering and nurturing our inner tranquility, suggesting that when we find peace within ourselves, it can positively affect those around us, leading to a more harmonious existence.
In practice
In a meditation workshop, this quote can inspire participants to seek their inner calm.
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 today’s 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.
Why has there never been a holiday where peace is celebrated all throughout the world?
We must be prepared to see an Association of Nations in conference growing into an organic system of world controls for world affairs and the keeping of the world’s peace, or we must be prepared for – a continuation of war.
There are some who've forgotten why we have a military. It's not to promote war, it's to be prepared for peace.
Peace is not merely a distant goal that we seek, but a means by which we arrive at that goal.
In many parts of the world the people are searching for a solution which would link the two basic values: peace and justice. The two are like bread and salt for mankind.
The question that we must ask is whether we are making progress toward the goal of universal peace. Or are we caught up on a treadmill of history, turning forever on the axle of mindless aggression and self-destruction?
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