“Clapping my hands with the echoes the summer moon begins to dawn.”
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Calm Quotes — page 75 of 276
“Fire is a good companion for the mind.”
“We have very little, so we have nothing to be preoccupied with. The more you have, the more you are occupied, the less you give. But the less you have, the more free you are.”
“The only thing a cat worries about is what's happening right now. As we tell the kittens, you can only wash one paw at a time.”
“Meditation doesn't have to be complicated. What I do is about as simple as you can get. You could just count the beads, one, two, three, with your eyes closed or open, whatever makes you happy.”
“When I work I relax; doing nothing or entertaining visitors makes me tired.”
“Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.”
“If you have worries, there is no better way to eliminate them than by walking them off. Just take them out for a walk. They may take wings and fly away!”
“Everybody should live quietly whether his experiences are happy or sad, whether they are successes or failures. That is contentment.”
“Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life.”
“A stable mind is like the hub of a wheel. The world may spin around you, but the mind is steady.”
“The place I like best in this world is the kitchen. No matter where it is, no matter what kind, if it’s a kitchen, if it’s a place where they make food, it’s fine with me. Ideally it should be well broken in. Lots of tea towels, dry and immaculate. Where tile catching the light (ting! Ting!)” (p. 3).”
“What we have currently available is what we have available.”
“Welcome the present moment as if you had invited it. It is all we ever have, so we night as well work with it rather than struggling against it. We might as well make it our friend and teacher rather than our enemy.”
“I love tranquil solitude.”
“That indolent but agreeable condition of doing nothing.”
“Let exercise alternate with rest.”
“My house is to me as my castle, since the law has not the art to destroy it.”
“Sometimes you'll have some things, and sometimes you'll have other things. And you do not need it all at once; it's not good for you.”
“Bear in mind that you should conduct yourself in life as at a feast.”