I've seen so many cases where lives have been transformed for the good and heard so many stories about this. The technique of Transcendental Meditation really works for the human being. David Lynch More Quotes by David Lynch More Quotes From David Lynch A lot of artists think they want anger. But a real, strong, bitter anger occupies the mind, leaving no room for creativity. David Lynch creativity strong real Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique. You're given a mantra - the mantra that Maharishi gives is very specific, and you start to dive into subtler levels of mind, subtler levels of intellect. You transcend the whole show, into pure bliss consciousness. From your first meditation, you say, "Whoa!" It's a unique experience, but a familiar experience. David Lynch car unique giving We're like lightbulbs. If bliss starts growing inside you, it's like a light; it affects the environment. David Lynch growing environment light With each experience of the unbounded ocean of consciousness, you infuse it into your life and therefore expand whatever consciousness you had to begin with. David Lynch consciousness ocean Every human being has consciousness, but not every human being has the same amount. The potential for each one of us human beings is infinite consciousness. This is called supreme enlightenment, and it just needs unfolding by transcending each day. The more consciousness we have, the better life is. David Lynch enlightenment each-day needs There's always fear of the unknown where there's mystery. David Lynch fear-of-the-unknown mystery 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. David Lynch unique beautiful moving As a teenager, I was really trying to have fun 24 hours a day. I didn't start thinking until I was 20 or 21. I was doing regular goof-ball stuff. David Lynch teenager fun thinking 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. David Lynch important ideas firsts Sometimes film kills the room to dream. David Lynch dream sometimes rooms I just hope that I get a chance to keep making pictures in the atmosphere of freedom to make mistakes, and to find those magical things. Then I don't care what else happens. David Lynch atmosphere care mistake 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. David Lynch creativity powerful ocean Because you make a world that didn't exist before, and you can go into that world deeper and deeper. It's unbounded out there. One film takes you into one area, another film takes you into another area. There could be trillions, zillions of worlds that exist in the big space. David Lynch film space world Sex was like a world so mysterious to me, I really couldn't believe there was this fantastic texture to life that I was getting to do...it has all these different levels, from lust and fearful, violent sex to the real spiritual thing at the other end. It's the key to some fantastic mystery of life. David Lynch real spiritual sex To me, jazz is the closest thing to insanity that there is in music. David Lynch closest jazz insanity Television provides the opportunity for an ongoing story - the opportunity to meld the cast and the characters and a world, and to spend more time there. David Lynch stories opportunity character I don't like the word ironic. I like the word absurdity, and I don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. The irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. When irony happens without words, it's much more exalted. David Lynch ironic too-much trying I'm responsible for what people see and what they hear. David Lynch responsible people Digital video is so beautiful. It's lightweight, modern, and it's only getting better. It's put film into the La Brea Tar Pits. David Lynch get-better video beautiful Cinema is a medium that can translate ideas. David Lynch mediums cinema ideas