Top 248 Navel Gazing Quotes & Sayings

Close the eyes, and focus on the third eye, the heart chakra, or the navel center. It is a good idea to alternate them.

I would spend hours and hours gazing at the stars and wondering, what's out there? Sometimes I wondered if maybe there was another girl like me on another planet some place gazing at the stars and thinking about the same things.

Believing that navel-gazing in and of itself can transform itself into something that means something for society. I mean, we are communicative creatures. We desire to sort of understand each other's experiences and points of view. Storytelling is what painting, literature, filmmaking is all about.

Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

I know a lot of people think therapy is about sitting around staring at your own navel - but it's staring at your own navel with a goal. And the goal is to one day to see the world in a better way and treat your loved ones with more kindness and have more to give.

I try not to be super self-referential about my work because it becomes like navel gazing at a certain point.

The ancient Greeks noticed that a man with arms and legs extended described a circle, with his navel as the center.

In every decade rock and roll starts to get very serious and navel gazing and kind of self serious and every once and a while it kind of needs a kick in the pants.

I shoot for the moon but I'm too busy gazing the stars.

In this world we walk on the roof of hell gazing at flowers

What's it like being opposite Arnold Schwarzenegger? For me? Are you kidding? Maybe if I'm lucky, come up to his navel!

I'm not going to let Defense Distributed go into a pro-social NGO territory. "We should really have more women on the board." That's navel-gazing and destructive ultimately. You have to have a kind of white-hot core identity. So far, I'm in touch with it.

Forty pictures I was in, and all I remember is 'What kind of bra will you be wearing today, honey?' That was always the area of big decision - from the neck to the navel.

Felling a tree and gazing at the cut end - tonight's moon

I am one who eats breakfast gazing at morning glories.

The key to gazing is stopping thought. Gazing is a soft focus; you are touching something with your luminosity. If you could but look into the mountains you would see a diffuse glow.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Beauty is eternity gazing at itself in a mirror.

The beauteous eyes of the spring's fair night With comfort are downward gazing.

I was not always someone who wanted to get married or thought I would get married, so being a true writer, I was always navel-gazing: 'What are good marriages? What are bad marriages?'

The navel center will bring the power of all three of the lower chakras into your being, but with safety.

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Most books that come out with a comedy label seem to be, Eric [Wareheim] and I could have written, "This is our story, and this is who we are," and sort of this navel-gazing, narcissistic approach to comedy we're seeing these days.

We live in a time where there's a great deal of navel-gazing with the devices that we have that occupy so much of our time... many subjects of history are lost.

There was a time when people had the decency to wait until they were approaching 50 to have a mid-life crisis. Now it seems many thirtysomethings find themselves succumbing to existential navel-gazing.

A lot of mixed-race stories are these navel-gazing, horrible accounts of mulatto tragedy.

I hate going to the gym, so sweating outdoors sure beats sitting on a stationary bike staring at my navel.

The navel region is the centre of the vital. It is from here that the movements of the vital rise upward. Above the navel and behind the chest is the centre of the play of emotions and below this takes place the play of the physical. Mul?dh?ra is the base of the physical. In between the Mul?dh?ra and the navel, there is another centre of the vital.

When I was in college I started writing prose, because a very smart professor asked me what I like to read and I said, "Novels," and she said, "You should be writing them then." Memoir never even occurred to me. I think I was afraid of nonfiction and I was afraid of navel-gazing, and of being seen.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

On the top of the head is a Chakra - Sahasradala or the thousand-petalled lotus. There is a Chakra in the middle of the forehead between the eyebrows and one in the heart-centre. The region between the navel and head constitutes the mental field. From navel downward extending till the terminus of the spinal chord, m?l?dh?ra, is the seat of the vital.

I don't have the time or the desire to gaze at my navel.

Gazing on beautiful things acts on my soul.

The soul started at the knee-cap and ended at the navel.

The man without a navel still lives in me.

Caricatured as navel-gazers, Millennials are said to live for their 'likes' and status updates. But the young people I know often leverage social media in selfless ways.

I try to be very aware of opportunities as they arise. But I don't sit around staring at my navel and thinking about my brand development.

I would recommend, initially, if you are trying to increase your personal power level, to meditate on the navel center, not the lower two.

The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.

Do everything like someone is gazing at you.

A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

We use books like mirrors, gazing into them only to discover ourselves.

If you are going to experience the ecstasy of enlightenment, it is not just going to be a phrase. You've got to work during meditation. So back to the navel center!

My experience is that the universal is the personal. If you can get past your navel-gazing into the deepest part of yourself as a writer, you find everyone - we're all there.

'Alpha' is a very fast-moving book. It doesn't lend itself to laborious introspection and the navel-gazing that some stories can fall prey to.

Producing is the antidote to acting. Producing is practical problem solving all day long. As opposed to endless self-obsession and navel gazing.

The philosophy that I've embraced isn't about sitting under a tree and studying my navel.

While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.

Anyone who thinks Ryanair flights are some sort of bastion of sanctity where you can contemplate your navel is wrong. We already bombard you with as many in-flight announcements and trolleys as we can.

Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.

I'd buy myself a cabin on the beach, I'd put some glue in my navel, and I'd stick a flag in there. Then I'd wait to see which way the wind was blowing.

As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

The writer must wade into life as into the sea, but only up to the navel.

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

I want to stay in the habit of 'glancing' at my problems and 'gazing' at my Lord.

'Slacker' is so not about navel-gazing.

One doesn't actually meditate on the navel. The chakra is located about two or three inches below the navel, at that point there is an energy access sphere in the middle of the body.

A man gazing at the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.

The media loves to spend a lot of time talking about itself and do a lot of navel-gazing, which the general public isn't quite that interested in. They aren't really particularly concerned with whether our feelings are hurt or the things that we complain about. They have their own lives and their own jobs that are difficult as well. I think where the media has gotten itself in trouble is the sense that they're much more interested in things like parsing words and getting into fights about little minutia, as opposed to stepping back and seeing what the big picture is.

Never utter a word if it is not from your navel point and it doesn't confirm your regal, highest self.