“Silence is an ocean. Speech is a river. When the ocean is searching for you, don't walk into the language-river. Listen to the ocean, and bring your talky business to an end. Traditional words are just babbling in that presence, and babbling is a substitute for sight.”
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Calm Quotes — page 83 of 276
“Silence is the root of everything. If you spiral into its void a hundred voices will thunder messages you long to hear.”
“Focus on the moment, not the monsters that may or may not be up ahead.”
“Be calm. God awaits you at the door.”
“When in doubt take a bath”
“Restraint never ruins one's health.”
“Rest at pale evening... A tall slim tree... Night coming tenderly Black like me”
“How do I become still? By flowing with the stream.”
“Empty your mind of all thoughts.”
“Things will go as they will, and there is no need to hurry to meet them.”
“I’ve learned not to worry about what might come next.”
“The secret of remaining young is never to have an emotion that is unbecoming.”
“Her sureness was based on the power to limit experience arbitrarily.”
“My bed was pushed up hard against the wall just below the window. I loved to sleep with the windows open. Rainy nights were the best of all: I would open my windows and put my head on my pillow and close my eyes and feel the wind on my face and listen to the trees sway and creak. There would be raindrops blown onto my face, too, if I was lucky, and I would imagine that I was in my boat on the ocean and that it was swaying with the swell of the sea. I did not imagine that I was a pirate, or that I was going anywhere. I was just on my boat.”
“Disputation carries away the mind from that calm and sedate temper which is so necessary to contemplate truth.”
“The newspaper is a marvelous medium. It is extraordinarily convenient and cheap. Let's see. This one cost 75 cents. Now that's a little high. I bought it when I was downtown this morning.”
“The past is already gone, the future is not yet here. There's only one moment for you to live, and that is the present moment”
“Freedom and happiness are found in the flexibility and ease with which we move through change.”
“Wherever you live is your temple, if you treat it like one.”
“Don't just do something, be there.”