“One of the things that made me long to be back in prison was that I had so little opportunity for reading, thinking and quiet reflection after my release. I intend, amongst other things, to give myself much more opportunity for such reading and reflection.”
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Calm Quotes — page 252 of 276
“I enjoyed the discipline and solitariness of long-distance running, which allowed me to escape from the hurly-burly of school life.”
“I do not watch television. But I'm in touch with the world. If anything really important happens, someone will tell me.”
“It's very important that we re-learn the art of resting and relaxing. Not only does it help prevent the onset of many illnesses that develop through chronic tension and worrying; it allows us to clear our minds, focus, and find creative solutions to problems.”
“Go slowly, breathe and smile.”
“To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.”
“You must be completely awake in the present to enjoy the tea.”
“Follow your breathing, dwell mindfully on your steps, and soon you will find your balance.”
“To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.”
“I do many kinds of work, and if you forbid me from binding books, from gardening, from writing poetry, from practicing walking meditation, from teaching children, I will be very unhappy. To me, work is pleasant. Pleasant or unpleaseant depends on our way of looking.”
“Somehow the river is louder when you cover your ears.”
“Be cheerful, also, and seek not external help, nor the peace which others give. A man must stand straight, and not be kept straight by others.”
“Take the shortest route. The one that nature planned - to speak and act in the healthiest way. Do that, and be free of pain and stress, free of all calculations and pretension.”
“Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.”
“When you have been compelled by circumstances to be disturbed in any manner, quickly return to yourself, and do not continue out of tune longer than the compulsion lasts. You will have increasing control over your own harmony by continually returning to it.”
“You don't have to turn this into something. It doesn't have to upset you. Things can't shape our decisions by themselves.”
“It will suffice thee to remember as concerning pain ... that the mind may, by stopping all manner of commerce and sympathy with the body, still retain its own tranquility.”
“It is not fit that I should give myself pain, for I have never intentionally given pain even to another.”
“When forced, as it seems, by your environment to be utterly disquieted, return with all speed into your self, staying in discord no longer than you must. By constant recurrence to the harmony, you will gain more command over it.”
“Neither in thy actions be sluggish nor in thy conversation without method, nor wandering in thy thoughts, nor let there be in thy soul inward contention nor external effusion, nor in life be so busy as to have no leisure.”