“When we respect the nude, we will no longer have any shame about it.”
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Calm Quotes — page 119 of 276
“Be light. Smile. Drop. Learn the tendency to drop and smile and move through.”
“When you meditate you have to try to quiet and calm the mind. There should be no thought within the mind. Right now you feel that if you can cherish twenty ideas at a time, then you are the wisest man on earth. The more thoughts that enter into our minds, the more clever we feel we are. But in the spiritual life it is not like that. If consciously we can make the mind calm and quiet, we feel that a new creation dawns inside us.”
“For this quiet, unprepossessing, passive man who has no garden in front of his subsidised flat, books are like flowers. He loves to line them up on the shelf in multicoloured rows: he watches over each of them with an old-fashioned gardener's delight, holds them like fragile objects in his thin, bloodless hands.”
“It comes from within.”
“In down times I do things like go for a long bike ride or run. The other thing I'm doing in that quiet time is just observing.”
“I'm just a big homebody and love word games like Scrabble and Boggle.”
“Bleak factory buildings and billboard-cluttered avenues look as beautiful, through the camera's eye, as churches and pastoral landscapes.”
“The meditative state is the highest state of existence. So long as there is desire, no real happiness can come. It is only the contemplative, witness-like study of objects that brings to us real enjoyment and happiness.”
“You can’t absolutely make everything the way you want it to be in life. Sometimes thing are just different and then you to just move with that and try and remain in contact with what is beautiful about yourself and each other with any situation.”
“If you just remember to breathe and smile before you act, you’ll always make the right decision.”
“Sit quietly and listen for a voice that will say, "Be more silent." As that happens, your soul starts to revive.”
“Eight hours work, eight hours sleep, and eight hours recreation - Brigham Young”
“When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.”
“I do yoga, I do Bikram and I run, and I eat really healthy.”
“Looking at these stars suddenly dwarfed my own troubles and all the gravities of terrestrial life.”
“It was a grey day, that least fleshly of all weathers; a day of dreams and far hopes and clear visions. It was a day easily associated with those abstract truths and purities that dissolve in the sunshine or fade out in mocking laughter by the light of the moon. The trees and clouds were carved in classical severity; the sounds of the countryside had harmonized to a monotone, metallic as a trumpet, breathless as the Grecian urn.”
“It's a mining town in lotus land.”
“I just see me, an ordinary girl. I know my life is not typical, but I have tried to stay really grounded and true to myself. My family really helps me with that.”
“Outward Peace is useless without inner Peace”