“Be mindful 24 hours a day, not just during the one hour you may allot for formal meditation or reading scripture and reciting prayers. Each act must be carried out in mindfulness.”
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Calm Quotes — page 160 of 276
“You who are journalists, writers, citizens, you have the right and duty to say to those you have elected that they must practice mindfulness, calm and deep listening, and loving speech. This is universal thing, taught by all religions.”
“Breathe in and take one step, and focus all your attention on the sole of your foot. If you have not arrived fully, one hundred percent in the here and the now, don't take the next step.”
“When we are present, life is also present.”
“Many of us worry about the situation of the world . . . We need to remain calm, to see clearly. Meditation is a means to be aware, and to try to help.”
“Each time you take a mindful step you are back in the arms of Mother Earth and are reminded of your true sweet home in the here and now.”
“How easy it is to repel and release every impression which is troublesome and immediately to be tranquil.”
“But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in your power whenever you choose to retire into yourself.”
“By a tranquil mind I mean nothing else than a mind well ordered.”
“Let thy chief fort and place of defense be a mind free from passions. A stronger place and better fortified than this, hath no man.”
“Leisure with dignity.”
“It was the hour in which objects lose the consistency of shadow that accompanies them during the night and gradually reacquire colors, but seem to cross meanwhile an uncertain limbo, faintly touched, just breathed on by light; the hour in which one is least certain of the world's existence.”
“No one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.--Harry Emerson FosdickNo one can get inner peace by pouncing on it.”
“Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.”
“I know when I've been surfing I've got a sense of level of calmness to me, and when I hit the ocean, even in its presence, at the shore, and especially by a powerful surf, I've been put in my place as a person.”
“I write in the morning, I walk in the afternoon and I read in the evening. It's a very easy, lovely life.”
“Listening to the music while stretching her body close to its limit, she was able to attain a mysterious calm. She was simultaneously the torturer and the tortured, the forcer and the forced. This sense of inner-directed self-sufficiency was what she wanted most of all. It gave her deep solace.”
“It is sometimes necessary for each person. Fill up with delicious food, get drunk, sing loudly and chat frivolously.”
“This place is too calm, too natural--too complete. I don't deserve it. At least not yet.”
“The moderation of fortunate people comes from the calm which good fortune gives to their tempers.”