487 Quotes by David Lynch

If we didn’t want to upset anyone, we would make films about sewing, but even that could be dangerous. But I think finally, in a film, it is how the balance is and the feelings are. But I think there has to be those contrasts and strong things within a film for the total experience.

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.

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.

I didn’t really grow up listening to blues, because I grew up in the Northwest. It wasn’t really the center for blues.

A film – especially when it’s a personal film – is going to hit somebody or it’s not. There’s nothing you can do about it.

The nervous system functions in a fourth, unique way, as different as dreaming is from sleeping as sleeping is from waking. When you transcend, it’s the only experience that lights the full brain on an EEG machine. It’s the only experience that utilizes the full brain.

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.

Mankind was not meant to suffer – bliss is our nature. The individual is cosmic. Let’s rock.

Be true to yourself. Don’t take no for an answer. And start your Transcendental Meditation.