“I'm for prayer in the schools because ritual and ceremony are calming and civilizing, and the little fartlings should be tamped down whenever possible.”
Calm feeling
Calm Quotes — page 98 of 276
“Life is precious and there's not a lot of room for anger.”
“Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.”
“As a mountain is unshaken by the wind, so the heart of a wise person is unmoved by all the changes on this earth.”
“All the holy words you read and all the holy words you speak are as nothing if you do not act upon them. Even if you read little and say little but live the right way, forsaking craving, hatred and delusion, you will know the truth and find calmness and will show others the path.”
“Do not pursue the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. The past no longer is. The future has not yet come. Looking deeply at life as it is. In the very here and now, the practitioner dwells in stability and freedom. We must be diligent today. To wait until tomorrow is too late. Death comes unexpectedly. How can we bargain with it? The sage calls a person who knows how to dwell in mindfulness night and day, 'one who knows the better way to live alone.'”
“Solitude is happiness for one who is content, who has heard the Dhamma and clearly sees. Non-affliction is happiness in the world - harmlessness towards all living beings.”
“It is good to have companions when occasion arises, and it is good to be contented with whatever comes.”
“Maintain a state of balance between physical acts and inner serenity,like a lute whose strings are finely tuned.”
“When the sleeping snake is gone, then you can rest at ease.”
“Breathe and you dwell in the here and now, breath and you see impermanence is life.”
“Take me and cast me where you will; I shall still be possessor of the divinity within me, serene and content.”
“This is the mark of a perfect character - to pass through each day as though it were the last, without agitation, without torpor, and without pretense.”
“He does not seem to me to be a free man who does not sometimes do nothing.”
“I'm able to behave like the guy you see onstage although that's not my entire existence. I might be a portion of that guy. At home, quiet prevails. It's incense, candles and birds chirping. Everything's done to maximize peace and tranquility, because we know when we exit those doors, it's going to be a whole different energy.”
“We heard no other sounds. We met no other people. We saw only two bright red birds leap startled from the center of the meadow and dart into the woods.”
“The silence grew deeper, so deep that if you listened carefully you might very well catch the sound of the earth revolving on its axis.”
“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world of The Arabian Nights. Slowly, like a movie fadeout, the real world evaporates. I'm alone, inside the world of the story. My favourite feeling in the world.”
“The constancy of sages is nothing but the art of locking up their agitation in their hearts.”
“I'm not a huge fan of covers in general, but collaborations always make them more fun - they're sort of neutral territory.”