Chanting Quotes
82 quotes by 60 authors
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I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group.
— Leonard Cohen
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This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness -…
— A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada
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The young intellectuals are all chanting, "Revolution, Revolution," but I say the revolution will have to start in our homes, by achieving equal rights for…
— Qiu Jin
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It is not a question of sitting silently, it is not a question of chanting a mantra. It is a question of understanding the subtle…
— Rajneesh
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We rarely quote nowadays to appeal to authority... though we quote sometimes to display our sapience and erudition. Some authors we quote against. Some we…
— Ihab Hassan
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One will develop ruchi (liking) for chanting of the holy names, when one has compassion for each and every living being.
— Lokanatha Swami
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When I wrote the song, I had the sea near Bombay in mind. We stayed at a hotel by the sea, and the fishermen come…
— Ray Davies
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I wasn’t like, boo hoo, Bin Laden’s dead, but I wasn’t jumping. America’s a very nationalistic country, and in episodes like that of his death,…
— Jeremy Scahill
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Chanting is a way of getting in touch with yourself. It's an opening of the heart and letting go of the mind and thoughts. It…
— Krishna Das
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The big political news, Arnold Schwarzenegger announced he's running for governor of California, and already, people are chanting, 'Four more vowels, four more vowels.
— Craig Kilborn
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All the ballparks and the big crowds have a certain mystique. You feel attached, permanently wedded to the sounds that ring out, to the fans…
— Mickey Mantle
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Welcome to Israel, where chanting “Death to Arabs†is democracy, running over children is equality, and firing on funerals is peace.
— Remi Kanazi
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You are a cosmic flower. Om chanting is the process of opening the psychic petals of that flower.
— Amit Ray
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Tell him that PDP women in every nook and cranny, wherever we are, young or old, beautiful or ugly, tall or short, small or big,…
— Kema Chikwe
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Extraordinary scenes there at the end. I think some of the crowd chanting 'Italy! Italy!' were actually Irish.
— Tom McGurk
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We're importing Hinduism into America. The whole thought of your karma, of meditation, of the fact that there's no end of life and there's this…
— Pat Robertson
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Chanting is no more holy than listening to the murmur of a stream, counting prayer beads no more sacred than simply breathing. . . .…
— Laozi
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I wish more fantasy, especially the dominant fantasy that draws heavily on British and Christian lore, would wrestle with its own ethnospecific nature and what…
— Nalo Hopkinson
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Taoist chanting, Confucian chanting, Christian chanting, Buddhist chanting don't matter. Chanting Coca Cola, Coca Cola, Coca Cola … can be just as good if you…
— Seungsahn
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Fever jumped aside just in time to dodge the shower of urine, and stumbled into the path of a religious procession - celebrants in robes…
— Philip Reeve
Who Wrote These Chanting Quotes
60 authors contributed a total of 82 Chanting Quotes, led by these top contributors: