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Meditation Is To Dive All The Way Within, Beyond Thought, To The Source Of Thought And Pure Consciousness. It Enlarges The Container, Every Time You Transcend. When You Come Out, You Come Out Refreshed, Filled With Energy And Enthusiasm For Life.

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Meditation Is To Dive

David Lynch

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Meditation Is To Dive All The Way Within, Beyond Thought, To The Source Of Thought And Pure Consciousness. It Enlarges The Container, Every Time You Transcend. When You Come Out, You Come Out Refreshed, Filled With Energy And Enthusiasm For Life.

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Tied To Consciousness Are All Positive Qualities, So That Ocean Within Is An Ocean Of Unbounded Intelligence, Unbounded Creativity, Unbounded Happiness, Unbounded Love, Unbounded Energy, And Unbounded Peace. And When Students Start Expanding Consciousness In Those Positive Qualities, Their Relationships Improve, Their Grades Go Up, Their Happiness Goes Up, The Fighting And Bullying Stops, And Things Get Very, Very, Very Good.

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I Discovered That If One Looks A Little Closer At This Beautiful World, There Are Always Red Ants Underneath.

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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.

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I Have Smoked Marijuana, But I No Longer Do. I Went To Art School In The 1960s So You Can Imagine What Was Going On. Yet My Friends Were The Ones Who Said, "no, No, No, David, Don't Take Those Drugs." I Was Pretty Lucky.

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See, A Painting Is Much Cheaper Than Making A Film. And Photography Is, You Know, Way Cheap. So If I Get An Idea For A Film, There Are Many Ways To Get It Together And Go Realise That Film. There's Really Nothing To Be Afraid Of.

Float With Me In The World Of Ether.

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Life Holds Many, Many, Many Mysteries, Abstract Things We All Think About. In A Film When Things Get Abstract, Some People Don't Appreciate That And They Want To Leave The Theater. Others Love To Dream, Get Lost, Try To Figure Things Out. I'm One Of Those People. I Like A Film, A Story That Holds Concrete Things But Also Abstractions. So When Ideas Come Along That Have Those Things, I'm Falling In Love And Going To Work.

Falling In Love

If You Have A Golf-ball-sized Consciousness, When You Read A Book, You'll Have A Golf-ball-sized Understanding; When You Look Out A Window, A Golf-ball-sized Awareness, When You Wake Up In The Morning, A Golf-ball-sized Wakefulness; And As You Go About Your Day, A Golf-ball-sized Inner Happiness. But If You Can Expand That Consciousness, Make It Grow, Then When You Read About That Book, You'll Have More Understanding; When You Look Out, More Awareness; When You Wake Up, More Wakefulness; As You Go About Your Day, More Inner Happiness.

Script Is Not Finished Until It's Finished. There's Many Times, Partway Through A Film, When An Idea Comes, And I Say, "how Beautiful This Is. This Thing Was Not Complete And Look What's Happened, Look What's Come Along." And It Just Came Along At What Might Be Called A Strange Time Rather Than A Normal Time.

I Have Been 'diving Within' Through The Transcendental Meditation Technique For Over 30 Years. It Has Changed My Life, My World. I Am Not Alone. Millions Of Other People Of All Ages, Religions, And Walks Of Life Practice The Technique And Enjoy Incredible Benefits.

I Just Like Going Into Strange Worlds.

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Being In Darkness And Confusion Is Interesting To Me. But Behind It You Can Rise Out Of That And See Things The Way The Really Are.

I Was Creative Before I Started Meditating, But I Had, Looking Back, A Weakness. I Wasn't Self-assured. I Had A Little Bit Of Melancholy. I Had A Lot Of Anger For My Situations In Life, And I Would Take This Out On My First Wife.

Situations In Life

I'm Not Really Into Vinyl. There's Something About That Raw, Birth Of Rock And Roll Feel That Makes Me Crazy.

You've Got To Let Accidents And Strange Things Happen - Let It Work, So It's Got An Organic Sort Of Quality ... By Trying To Remove Yourself You Can See Some Fantastic Things Sometimes.

My Movies Are Film-paintings - Moving Portraits Captured On Celluloid. I'll Layer That With Sound To Create A Unique Mood -- Like If The Mona Lisa Opened Her Mouth, And There Would Be A Wind, And She'd Turn Back And Smile. It Would Be Strange And Beautiful.

Some Things We Forget. But Many Things We Remember On The Mental Screen, Which Is The Biggest Screen Of All.

Meditation Is To Dive All The Way Within, Beyond Thought, To The Source Of Thought And Pure Consciousness. It Enlarges The Container, Every Time You Transcend. When You Come Out, You Come Out Refreshed, Filled With Energy And Enthusiasm For Life.

Enthusiasm For Life

Many Things Happen That We Don't Know The Significance Of Until A Little Bit Later.

I'm Responsible For What People See And What They Hear.

The Mantra That You're Given In Transcendental Meditation You Keep To Yourself. The Reason Being, True Happiness Is Not Out There, True Happiness Lies Within.

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. Feeling Correct Is A Feeling I Think Everyone Knows.

There Is This Unbounded, Infinite, Eternal, Level, Ocean, Within Every Human Being. Inner Happiness Comes With Consciousness, Bliss, Intelligence Comes With It. Creativity, Love. Human Beings Have A Potential And It Has Names Like Enlightenment Or Fulfilment, Or Liberation. True Happiness Is Not Out There, True Happiness Lies Within. They Say Beauty Is Only Skin Deep But It's This Stuff Coming From The Inside, Absolute Vibrant Consciousness, Absolute Bliss

Sex Is A Doorway To Something So Powerful And Mystical, But Movies Usually Depict It In A Completely Flat Way. Being Explicit Doesn't Tap Into The Mystical Aspect Of It Either In Fact, That Usually Kills It Because People Don't Want To See Sex So Much As They Want To Experience The Emotions That Go Along With It. These Things Are Hard To Convey In Film Because Sex Is Such A Mystery.

The Concept Of Absurdity Is Something I'm Attracted To.

My Rule Of Thumb Is, What Siskel And Ebert Like, I Don't, And Vice Versa.

Life Is Filled With Abstractions, And The Only Way To Make Heads Or Tails Of It Is Going Through Intuition.

I Didn't Really Grow Up Listening To Blues, Because I Grew Up In The Northwest. It Wasn't Really The Center For Blues.

Ideas Are Floating Like Fish. Desire For An Idea Is Like A Bait On A Hook. If You Desire An Idea, It Pulls And It Makes A Kind Of A Bait. Ideas Will Come Swimming Up. And You Don't Know Them Until They Enter The Conscious Mind. And Then Bingo! There It Is! You Know It Instantly. And Then More Come In. If You Go Fishing For Ideas, A Lot Of Ideas Will Just Pop In. And One Of Them Will Make You Fall In Love.

Falling In Love

The Thing About Meditation Is: You Become More And More You.

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.

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.

The Only Thing That Disturbs Me Is That Many Psychopaths Say They Had A Very Happy Childhood.

Let's Get Rid Of The Suffering And Bring Real Peace, Which Is Not Just The Absence Of War, But The Absence Of All Negativity.

Been Trying The Soapy Water And Instant Coffee Method. Works Somewhat, But Boy It Tastes Terrible. I Don't Know How You Guys Can Stand It. I'm Going Back To Milk And Espresso For My Cappas.

I'm Not Any Different Than Anybody Else. But I Do See A World, For Me, That's Getting Better And Better, Not Worse And Worse. And I Believe That World Peace Is Coming Quicker Than We Think. And I Believe That People Are Not Only Yearning For It But Will See A Way To Get It And Help That Way To Come Sooner. And It's Going To Be Beautiful.

Every Single Thing In The World That Was Made By Anyone Started With An Idea. So To Catch One That Is Powerful Enough To Fall In Love With, It Is One Of The Most Beautiful Experiences. It's Like Being Jolted With Electricity And Knowledge At The Same Time.

Falling In Love

Negativity Is The Enemy Of Creativity.

I Like To Make Films Because I Like To Go Into Another World. I Like To Get Lost In Another World. And Film To Me Is A Magical Medium That Makes You Dream... Allows You To Dream In The Dark. It's Just A Fantastic Thing, To Get Lost Inside The World Of Film.

Transcendental Meditation Is A Mental Technique, So You Travel To This Field Through Subtler Levels Of Mind, And Then Subtler Levels Of Intellect, And Then, At The Border Of Intellect, You Transcend And Experience It.

The More You Meditate The Better Life Gets.

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.

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.

They Say That Negative Things Like Stress, Anxiety, Tension, Sorrow, And Depression "squeeze The Tube" So Ideas Don't Flow Through It. But If You Get Rid Of That Negativity, Which Goes Away Naturally When You Transcend Every Day, These Ideas Are More Freely Flowing, And You Get Happy In The Doing. You Get Fresh And Inspiring Ideas, And A Bigger Picture Starts To Emerge Of The World And Life. It's Very Good For The Artist, Businessman, Fisherman, And Any Kind Of Person Really.

I Love Music, Of Course, And Many, Many, Many Genres. There Are Hardly Any Songs I Would Say That I Hate. There's A Couple, And I Don't Even Know Exactly Why I Don't Like Them.

I Have A Profound Admiration For Fellini. I Met Him Lately And He's Just Fantastic. I Feel Very Close To Him Even Though He's Very Italian. But His Films Could Have Been Made In Every Country. When I Say, I Feel Close To Him, Then Also Because We're Both Born On January 20th.

Everyone Is On The Internet But They're Not All Talking With Each Other. There Are Groups Upon Groups Out There, But They Don't Talk To One Another. So While The Internet Brings Everyone Into A Shared Space, It Does Not Necessarily Bring Them Together.

When You Get An Idea And You Fall In Love With It There's Not A Whole Lot Of Choice. You're Going Down A Street And You Meet This Girl And You Know It Doesn't Have To Make Any Sense. Bingo! You're In Love.

Falling In Love

When The Going Gets Tough, Everyone Leaves.

Going Gets Tough

I Love Industry. Pipes. I Love Fluid And Smoke. I Love Man-made Things. I Like To See People Hard At Work, And I Like To See Sludge And Man-made Waste.

I Love Mysteries. To Fall Into A Mystery And Its Danger ... Everything Becomes So Intense In Those Moments. When Most Mysteries Are Solved, I Feel Tremendously Let Down. So I Want Things To Feel Solved Up To A Point, But There's Got To Be A Certain Percentage Left Over To Keep The Dream Going. It's Like At The End Of Chinatown: The Guy Says, 'forget It, Jake, It's Chinatown.' You Understand It, But You Don't Understand It, And It Keeps That Mystery Alive. That's The Most Beautiful Thing.

I Didn't Know Anything About Film When I First Started - I Was A Painter - But I [always] Felt That Sound Was Just As Important As The Picture. The Sound, Picture, And Ideas Have To Marry. If An Idea Carries With It A Mood, Sound Is Critical To Making That Mood.

Nowadays, People Shoot Digitally And It's All In Color, But You Press A Button And It All Goes To Black And White. But It's Not Lit For Black And White. So, It's A Tricky Thing. If You're Going Do Black And White, You Better Remember To Separate Things With Light, Because Color Ain't Gonna Be There.

Black And White

Unfortunately, My Ideas Are Not What You'd Call Commercial, And Money Really Drives The Boat These Days. So I Don't Know What My Future Is. I Don't Have A Clue What I'm Going To Be Able To Do In The World Of Cinema.

Every Teacher Of Transcendental Meditation Is A Hero.

Directors Who Have Inspired Me Include Billy Wilder, Federico Fellini, Lngmar Bergman, John Ford, Orson Welles, Werner Herzog, Stanley Kubrick, Alfred Hitchcock, Francis Ford Coppola And Ernst Lubitsch. In Art School, I Studied Painters Like Edward Hopper, Who Used Urban Motifs, Franz Kafka Is My Favorite Novelist. My Approach To Film Stems From My Art Background, As I Go Beyond The Story To The Sub-conscious Mood Created By Sound And Images.

I Long For A Kind Of Quiet Where I Can Just Drift And Dream. I Always Say Getting Inspiration Is Like Fishing. If You're Quiet And Sitting There And You Have The Right Bait, You're Going To Catch A Fish Eventually. Ideas Are Sort Of Like That. You Never Know When They're Going To Hit You.

A Film Is Its Own Thing And In An Ideal World I Think A Film Should Be Discovered Knowing Nothing And Nothing Should Be Added To It And Nothing Should Be Subtracted From It.

Knowing Nothing

Man Is Evolving...but It's Difficult To See His Progress With A Western Perception Of Time. The Hindus Think Of Time In Much Larger Segments. They Watch The Hour Hand Of The Clock While We In The West Are Preoccupied With The Second Hand.

The Business Side Of Film Has Goofed Up So Many Things, But Even That's Changing. It Happened To The Music Industry And Now It's Happening To The Film Studios. It's Crazy What's Going On. But Artists Should Have Control Of Their Work; Especially If, As I Always Say, You Never Turn Down A Good Idea And Never Take A Bad Idea.

The Big Treasury Is An Ocean Of Infinite Creativity. It's A Creativity That Creates Everything That Is A Thing - It's Mighty Powerful Creativity.

The Ideas Dictate Everything, You Have To Be True To That Or You're Dead.

I Felt I Should Have Been The Happiest Person In The World. But I Looked Inside, And That Happiness Was Only On The Surface, Not So Deep. Beneath It Was Hollow. Up Until That Time, I Had Been Thinking Meditation Was A Joke, A Fad And A Waste Of Time.

I Have No Problem Getting Financing. I Have A Problem Catching Ideas That I Fall In Love With For The Next Feature.

Falling In Love

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.

To Make The Script, You Need Ideas, And For Me A Lot Of Times, A Final Script Is Made Up Of Many Fragments Of Ideas That Came At Different Times.

Sleep Is Really Important. You Need To Rest The Physiology To Be Able To Work Weel And Meditate Well. When I Don't Get Enough Sleep, My Meditations Are Duller. You May Even Dip Into Sleep At The Beginning Of Your Meditation, Because You're Settling Down. But If You're Well Rested, You'll Have A Clearer Deeper Experience.

During The Course Of A Day, Some Dark Feeling Comes, Maybe Some Sadness Comes, Some Thrill, Some Great Happiness, Some Strange Humor. Cinema Can Embrace All That In One Story, Just As The Story Of Life.

Every Viewer Is Going To Get A Different Thing. That's The Thing About Painting, Photography, Cinema.

As Collective Consciousness Goes Higher And Higher, All The Differences In The World Will Be Appreciated More And More. A Definition Of Peace Is Unity In The Midst Of Diversity. Or You Could Say Happiness, Love, And Peace In The Midst Of All Diversity. All The Differences Would Be Appreciated Fully In The Light Of This Peace.

I Would Rather Not Make A Film Than Make One Where I Don't Have Final Cut.

The Ideas Dictate Everything.

The Side Effect Of Expanding Consciousness Is That Negativity Starts To Evaporate; It Goes Away Like Darkness When You Turn On A Light. Many Students Have So Much Torment, Stress, Depression, Sorrow And Hate In Them These Days, But Then They Get This Technique And The Negativity Starts To Go Away. They Start To Feel Good Because The Torment Is Leaving. Their Health Gets Better And They Get Happier, Their Comprehension And Their Ability To Focus Grow, Their Grades Go Up And A Joy For Life Grows; All Of Which Comes From Within.

Transcendental Meditation Is Like A Car, A Vehicle That Allows You To Go Within. It's A Mental Technique.

In My Case What Happened Is That Within About Two Weeks Of Beginning Meditation, The Anger Already Started To Go Away. My Wife Came To Me And Said, "what's Going On?" And I Said, "what Are You Talking About?" To Which She Replied, "this Anger, Where Did It Go?" I Didn't Even Realize That My Anger Had Been Going Away.

Well, I've Been Blessed With Good Hair, Or At Least Some People Think It Is. It Is The Way It Is, Sort Of Does What It Wants To. So, Yeah, I Guess It Is [a Metaphor For Your Views On Art And Life].

The World Is As You Are.

I'm Not Comfortable With Words. I Love Images ,and I Love Sounds, And I Love Feelings. I Like The Idea Of Intuition. I Think A Lot Of Things In Life Are Understood That Way. But You Internalize These Things; They Don't Really Pop Out. Certain Things Are Built Inside - Little Areas Of Understanding. I Feel That I Live In Darkness And Confusion, And I'm Trying, Like We All Are, To Make Some Sort Of Sense Of It.

In Film, Life-and-death Struggles Make You Sit Up, Lean Forward A Little Bit. They Amplify Things Happening, In Smaller Ways, In All Of Us. These Things Show Up In Relationships. They Show Up In Struggles And Bring Them To A Critical Point.

Chrysta Bell Looks Like A Dream And Chrysta Bell Sings Like A Dream. And The Dream Is Coming True.

I Have To Make What I See, Whether It's A Painting, A Table, Or A Movie, Or It's Like A Death And What Would Be The Point Of That?

Absurdity Is What I Like Most In Life.

Absurdity Of Life

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