“In the end, it all comes down to the art of breathing.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 79 of 276
“Still the mind. Inhale peace. Let go of worries. Exhale stress. Notice the breath. Connect to all. Embrace calm.”
“No matter how tired or wretched I am, a pussycat sitting in a doorway can divert my mind.”
“To live in the presence of great truths and eternal laws, to be led by permanent ideals - that is what keeps a man patient when the world ignores him, and calm and unspoiled when the world praises him.”
“But I found tai chi when I was studying with Leung Shum, who teaches Eagle Claw and Wu Hao.”
“Let us not get so busy or live so fast that we can't listen to the music of the meadow or the symphony that glorifies the forest. Some things in the world are far more important than wealth; one of them is the ability to enjoy simple things.”
“Today is our most precious possession. It is our only sure possession.”
“Soul is at home in the deep, shaded valleys. Heavy torpid flowers saturated with black grow there. The rivers flow like warm syrup. They empty into huge oceans of soul.”
“Calm mind brings inner strength and self-confidence, so that's very important for good health.”
“When things get really bad, you take comfort in the placeness of a place.”
“Come into the silence of solitude, and the vibration there will talk to you through the voice of God.”
“Bring awareness to the many subtle sounds of nature - The rustling of leaves in the wind, Raindrops falling, The humming of an insect, The first birdsong at dawn.”
“Stillness is your essential nature. What is stillness? The inner space or awareness in which the words on this page are bieng perceived and become thoughts. Without that awareness, there would be no perception, no thoughts, no world. You are that awareness, disguised as a person.”
“Look around. And don't get close to people who make you suffer.”
“It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up space.”
“But at some point you have to make peace with what you were given and if God wanted me to be a shy girl with think, dark hair, He would have made me that way, but He didn't. Useful, then, might be to accept how I was made and embody myself fully therein.”
“I am a better person when I have less on my plate.”
“A soul which is conversant with virtue is like an ever flowing source, for it is pure and tranquil and potable and sweet and communicative (social) and rich and harmless and free from mischief.”
“Friendship with oneself is all important.”
“My good friends, while I do most earnestly recommend you to take care of your health and safety, as things most precious to us, I would not have that care degenerate into an effeminate and over-curious attention, which is always disgraceful to a man's self, and often troublesome to others.”