Quotes about "Mindfulness & Presence"

Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self. ”

As humans, we're such a discontented species. We're always trying to further ourselves, and you get all the way to the moon, and then it's just discontent. You want to go to Mars. ”

Without a drummer, you've got that sort of running, chicken-chasing, rhythmic thing happening with the banjo in the top end - it's what gives our music a lot of its momentum, a lot of its energy. ”

Being a bass player in a band without a drummer for seven, eight years has been kind of weird. ”

It's impossible to tell how you're perceived. I think it's important not to think about it too much, because it really means nothing. Some people think we're a rock band, and that's ridiculous, and the idea of us being a folk band - you sit in a pub in Ireland and hear those guys play, and you're like, 'Yeah, we're definitely not a folk band.' ”

We were thrilled when we were nominated for best new artist at the Grammys, but we were even more so when they asked us to play live. ”

We've always imagined ourselves as a rock band. We've always been a rock band playing the wrong instruments. ”

I've always thought of faith as an acknowledgment of not being the biggest thing in the universe. ”

Self-awareness is something that we actually actively avoid. ”

Self-awareness is one of the biggest enemies to creativity. ”