“Times like this, with the wind moving the grass and curling around her like a huge cool hand, Tess felt the world as a second presence, as another person, as if the wind and the grass had voices of their own and she could hear them talking.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 237 of 276
“It was possible at last to hear the silence to appreciate that there was a silence, deep and potent, out there beyond the pretension of the light.”
“You can't even see it. I'm the safest thing you'll ever find”
“Wyndham's is a beautiful old theatre. The sensation on the stage isn't as different as you might think from the Royal Court.”
“Sleep, ignorant of pain, sleep, ignorant of grief, may you come to us blowing softly, kindly, kindly come king.”
“A bird half wakened in the lunar noon Sang halfway through its little inborn tune.”
“If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.”
“Drop all your botheration to me and be free of worry”
“When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously. On the surface of the sea are multitudes of waves, but the sea is not affected below. In the deepest depths, at the bottom of the sea is all tranquility. So when you start meditating, try to feel your own inner existence first. That is to say, the bottom of the sea: calm and quiet. Feel that your whole being is surcharged with peace and tranquility.”
“If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?”
“If you can create harmony in your own life, This harmony will enter into the vast world.”
“Peace is a stranger to the rigid mind. Peace is a guest of the flexible heart.”
“Life and sports cannot be separated; they are one.”
“Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.”
“The Stormy life can be braved Only by the heart's Sunny meditations.”
“When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously”
“Patience, increasing patience”
“Meditation stops the sound-loving mind.”
“How do we meditate silently? Just by not talking, just by not using outer words, we are not doing silent meditation. Silent meditation is totally different. When we start meditating in silence, right from the beginning we feel the bottom of a sea within us and without. The life of activity movement and restlessness is on the surface, but deep below, underneath our human life, there is poise and silence. So, either we shall imagine this sea of silence within us or we shall feel that we are nothing but a sea of poise itself.”
“Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot disturb one, if this Purusha consciousness remains at the back.”