“Poetry comes fine-spun from a mind at peace.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 159 of 276
“Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts. Finley Peter Dunne There is more refreshment and stimulation in a nap, even of the briefest, than in all the alcohol ever distilled.”
“Keep a mid course between two extremes.”
“Fair peace becomes men; ferocious anger belongs to beasts. [Lat., Candida pax homines, trux decet ira feras.]”
“T is the work of many a dark hour, many a prayer, to bring the heart back from an infant gone.”
“It was still the custom of the countryside to build with local materials produced as close to the selected site as possible, for transport was difficult, even the best of country roads being more fitted for horseback traffic rather than heavy loads.”
“Books were safer than other people anyway.”
“My people, we stay indoors. We have keyboards. We have darkness. It's quiet.”
“It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.”
“Hollywood's got its own particular environment.”
“When we free ourselves of desire, we will know serenity and freedom.”
“Sit Rest Work. Alone with yourself, Never weary. On the edge of the forest Live joyfully, Without desire.”
“When watching after yourself, you watch after others. When watching after others, you watch after yourself.”
“Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.”
“Let your mind become clear like a still forest pool.”
“I feel safe and comfortable to do that once I know that the song structure around the bass part is very interesting and it satisfies me in a compositional sense.”
“I shall say, that I feel myself virtuous, because my soul is at rest.”
“The sun, though it passes through dirty places, yet remains as pure as before.”
“Suppose you are drinking a cup of tea. When you hold your cup, you may like to breathe in, to bring your mind back to your body, and you become fully present. And when you are truly there, something else is also there - life, represented by the cup of tea. In that moment you are real, and the cup of tea is real. You are not lost in the past, in the future, in your projects, in your worries. You are free from all of these afflictions. And in that state of being free, you enjoy your tea. That is the moment of happiness, and of peace.”
“To meditate does not mean to fight with a problem. To meditate means to observe. Your smile proves it. It proves that you are being gentle with yourself, that the sun of awareness is shining in you, that you have control of your situation. You are yourself, and you have acquired some peace.”