“Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.”
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Calm Quotes — page 141 of 276
“You can enjoy the present moment, and you can be aligned with the doing. A different state of consciousness, then, is the foundation for what you do. Presence flows into what you do. Even though what you do may be the same, there is a fundamental difference: The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life.”
“As you go about your life, don't give 100 percent of your attention to the external world and your mind. Keep some within.”
“When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.”
“One conscious breathe in and out is a meditation.”
“It is much more likely that help comes in when what you are doing is done while you are in a state of inner peace, rather than resistance.”
“I had been anxious and depressed for years and suddenly I was deeply at peace.”
“If you find here & now intolerable, you have options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally.”
“You have to be still for a moment to even notice that there is silence outside.”
“I can sometimes sit for two hours in a room with almost no thought. Just complete stillness. Sometimes when I go for walks, there's also complete stillness; there's no mental labeling of sense perceptions. There's simply a sense of awe or wonder or openness, and that's beautiful.”
“When I'm on my own with my camera, taking these pictures, it feels as if I am in a room of my own, a self-contained world.”
“I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.”
“Feathered with hoarfrost, skeletal trees loom closer; fog shrouded arches.”
“I think the minute you're full up and have had enough to eat, then that's time to retire.”
“Be cool and you'll be alright. That's rock & roll religion.”
“We have been moving along at such a fast pace that we no longer know what we are doing. Now we have to wait until our soul catches up with us.”
“Eat when it's time to eat. And move along when it's time to move along.”
“life is the moment we're living right now.”
“Let go of the idea that the path will lead you to your goal. The truth is that with each step we take, we arrive. Repeat that to yourself every morning: 'I've arrived.' That way you'll find it much easier to stay in touch with each second of your day.”
“If theater is ritual, then dance is too... It's as if the threads connecting us to the rest of the world were washed clean of preconceptions and fears. When you dance, you can enjoy the luxury of being you.”