Some time in your day today, try to turn off all the noises you can around you, and give yourself some ‘quiet time.’ In the silence, let yourself think about something. Thibaut (Related quote topic: meditation) If you can’t take joy in sitting under a tree on a beautiful day, you haven’t been meditating enough. If you feel the need to defend yourself, or justify your opinion, you haven’t been meditating enough. If you feel offended about something, you haven’t been meditating enough. come what comes, and accommodate yourself to that, whatever it is. The mighty pyramids and cathedrals were built by civilizations with a long time horizon, so it is with the life of a great man. Long-term thinking makes people calm, gracious, controlled. Short-term thinking makes people desperate, ungenerous, impulsive. Eckhart TolleĪttain peace with self-understanding. How do you know this the experience you need? Because this is the experience you are having at this moment.
One thing we do know: Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness. To bear trials with a calm mind robs misfortune of its strength and burden. Hurrying and delaying are alike ways of trying to resist the present. Paul GrahamĪn infinite reservoir of cosmic wisdom resides in the depths of contemplation. average, the deeper people’s knowledge of a topic, the more calmly they talk about it. The smarter you get, the more you appreciate silence. To shrug it all off and wipe it clean - every annoyance and distraction - and reach utter stillness. Lao TzuĮverything that happens is as simple and familiar as the rose in spring, the fruit in summer: disease, death, blasphemy, conspiracy… everything that makes stupid people happy and angry. With no desire, at rest and still, all things go right as of their will. Forcing a project to completion, you ruin what was almost ripe. No state is so bitter than a calm mind cannot find in it some consolation. Related quotes: relax, inner peace, Zen, stoic, strength The Best Calm Quotes Embracing change is a superhuman ability.
Sodo Yokoyamaįear of change is a human instinct. Once you start comparing, there’s no end to it.
Zen proverbĭecide that wherever you are, is the best place there is. To be calm is the highest achievement of the self. Those who act with few desires are calm, without worry or fear.