“Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.”
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Calm Quotes — page 17 of 276
“In an asana, the mind has to reach inside the body to find a quiet space until a point comes where perfect balance is felt.”
“Sometimes you need to stay in touch but be out of reach.”
“The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.”
“I think I could turn and live with the animals, they are so placid and self contained; I stand and look at them long and long. They do not sweat and whine about their condition; They do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins; They do not make me sick discussing their duty to God; Not one is dissatisfied-not one is demented with the mania of owning things; Not one kneels to another, nor his kind that lived thousands of years ago; Not one is responsible or industrious over the whole earth.”
“After creation God said, 'It is finished'-and he rested. After redemption Jesus said, 'It is finished'-and we can rest.”
“It's a little place on the Pacific Ocean. You know what the Mexicans say about the Pacific? They say it has no memory. That's where I want to live the rest of my life. A warm place with no memory.”
“Its good to leave each day behind, like flowing water, free of sadness. Yesterday is gone and its tale told. Today new seeds are growing.”
“I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach.”
“Breathe. Let go. And remind yourself that this very moment is the only one you know you have for sure.”
“Consider the cattle, grazing as they pass you by. They do not know what is meant by yesterday or today, they leap about, eat, rest, digest, leap about again, and so from morn till night and from day to day, fettered to the moment and its pleasure or displeasure, and thus neither melancholy nor bored. [...] A human being may well ask an animal: 'Why do you not speak to me of your happiness but only stand and gaze at me?' The animal would like to answer, and say, 'The reason is I always forget what I was going to say' - but then he forgot this answer too, and stayed silent.”
“Listen! the wind is rising, and the air is wild with leaves, we have had our summer evenings, now for October eves!”
“Sleep is the best meditation.”
“Inner # peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your # emotions”
“Bright was the summer's noon when quickening steps Followed each other till a dreary moor Was crossed, a bare ridge clomb, upon whose top Standing alone, as from a rampart's edge, I overlooked the bed of Windermere, Like a vast river, stretching in the sun.”
“Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them”
“Waves of a serene life pass over us from time to time, like flakes of sunlight over the fields in cloudy weather.”
“The best advice I ever came across on the subject of concentration is: Wherever you are, be there.”
“Stop trying, stop struggling; begin to be calm, to trust in the higher laws of life, even though you do not see them; they are still there.”
“Lilacs, False Blue, White, Purple, Colour of lilac, Your great puffs of flowers Are everywhere in this my New England ... Lilacs in dooryards Holding quiet conversation with an early moon; Lilacs watching a deserted house; ... Lilacs, wind-beaten, staggering under a lopsided shock of bloom, You are everywhere.”