3 Creatives on Meditation

“Things like traumatic stress and anxiety and tension and sorrow and depression and hate and bitter, selfish anger and fear start to lift away. And that’s a huge sense of freedom when that heavy weight of negativity begins to lift. So it’s like gold flowing in from within and garbage going out. The things in life that used to almost kill you, stress you, depress you, make you sad, make you afraid — they have less and less power. It’s like you’re building up a flak jacket of protection. You’re starting to glow with this from within.”

-David Lynch, Director & Artist

“Well, Boogie Street is what we’re all doing. We’re all on Boogie Street. And we believe that we leave it from time to time. We go up a mountain or into a hole. But most of the time we’re hustling on Boogie Street one way or another…Well, actually, a monastery is just part of Boogie Street. In fact, on Boogie Street, you go back to your flat or your apartment. And you close the door, and you kind of eliminate the rest of the world. You kind of eliminate Boogie Street. So there’s really more respite from Boogie Street on Boogie Street than there is in a monastery because a monastery is designed to eliminate private space. There’s a saying — like…