“When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you lose touch with yourself, you lose yourself in the world. Your innermost sense of self, of who you are, is inseparable from stillness. This is the I Am that is deeper than name and form.”
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Calm Quotes — page 59 of 276
“The young moon has fed Her exhausted horn With the sunset's fire.”
“The clouds were building up now for the trade wind and he looked ahead and saw a flight of wild ducks etching themselves against the sky over the water, then blurring, then etching again and he knew no man was ever alone on the sea.”
“Maybe some are so busy waiting, they forget what indescribable beauty is right there in front of them.”
“Wine makes daily living easier, less hurried with fewer tensions and more tolerance.”
“I found a strawberry blossom in a rock. I uprooted it rashly and felt as if I had been committing an outrage, so I planted it again.”
“Acceptance says, True, this is my situation at the moment. I'll look unblinkingly at the reality of it. But I'll also open my hands to accept willingly whatever a loving Father sends me.”
“The clouds were flying fast, the wind was coming up in gusts, banging some neighboring shutters that had broken loose, twirling the rusty chimney-cowls and weathercocks, and rushing round and round a confined adjacent churchyard as if it had a mind to blow the dead citizens out of their graves. The low thunder, muttering in all quarters of the sky at once, seemed to threaten vengeance for this attempted desecration, and to mutter, "Let them rest! Let them rest!”
“Every atom of your flesh is as dear to me as my own: in pain and sickness it would still be dear.”
“No matter how convenient it is for us to reach out to people remotely, sometimes the most important task is to show up in person.”
“Healthy people have a natural skill of avoiding feverish eyes.”
“We should learn to accept that change is truly the only thing that's going on always, and learn to ride with it and enjoy it.”
“Where the earth is, we are.”
“There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.”
“The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.”
“When from our better selves we have too long been parted by the hurrying world, and droop. Sick of its business, of its pleasures tired, how gracious, how benign is solitude.”
“All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.”
“Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards, I take the air there willingly, perhaps more willingly than elsewhere, when take the air I must.”
“Emotions are like waves. Watch them disappear in the distance on the vast calm ocean.”
“Don't think about the past. Just be here now.”