Top 1200 Calm Mind Quotes & Sayings - Page 15

If all we know of mind is the aspect of mind that dissolves when we die, we will be left with no idea of what continues, no knowledge of the new dimension of the deeper reality of the nature of mind. So it is vital for us all to familiarize ourselves with the nature of mind while we are still alive. Only then will we be prepared for the time when it reveals itself spontaneously and powerfully at the moment of death; be able to recognize it "as naturally," the teachings say, "as a child running into its mother's lap"; and by remaining in that state, finally be liberated.

Nakamura Tempu Sensei viewed the mind as a segment of the body that could not be seen and the body as the element of the mind that was observable. He also likened the mind and body to a stream, with the mind as the source flowing down to the body. Whatever we drop in the stream will be carried down by the current. In like manner, our thoughts will influence the body and our well being.

Meditation is like a gym in which you develop the powerful mental muscles of calm and insight.

Our world does not exist from its own side--like a dream world, it is a mere appearance to our mind. In dreams we can see and touch our dream world, but when we wake up we realize that it is simply a projection of our mind and had no existence outside our mind. In the same way, the world we see when we are awake is simply a projection of our mind and has no existence outside our mind.

Violence is its own anesthetist. The numbness it induces feels very much like calm.

I believe that pipe smoking contributes to a somewhat calm and objective judgement in all human affairs.

Pain is the mind. It's the mind. It's the thoughts of the mind.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.

Calm and silent and steady work, and no newspaper humbug, no name-making, you must always remember.

A formal and consistent theory of inductive processes cannot represent the operation of every human mind in detail; it will represent an ideal mind, but it will help the actual mind to approximate that ideal.

My training sessions were nice, calm, and quiet. Just me and my trainers in the gym.

The acquirement and enjoyment of physical well-being, mental calm and spiritual peace are priceless to their possessors.

Time doth run with calm and silent foot, Shortening my days and thread of vital life.

One has to adopt a sort of Zen calm, in which you know you wrote the best book that you could at the time.

With Salman, I need to keep myself a little calm but that wouldn't stop me from saying what I want to.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

What though the sea be calm? trust to the shore, Ships have been drown'd, where late they danc'd before.

You don't have to shout from the mountaintops. Sometimes power comes in a soft, calm, compassionate way, like a quiet warrior.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, inciting at once to work and rest!

Existence is only in the present. Mind is never in the present. In fact, the moment you are in the present, there is no mind in you, there is great silence. The whole sky of your inner being is without thoughts, without clouds. I call this the state of no-mind. Only in this state of no-mind do you meet existence. And that meeting is the ultimate ecstasy. Once you have tasted it, you will never bother about the future.

You asked how I can be so calm. I don't have time not to be. I would like to grieve and worry and carry on, but that doesn't achieve results.

I promise you, the gym has taken away so much of my stress. It has helped calm me down.

It's something I always tell myself: 'You need to calm the f--k down. You don't want to constantly be a GIF.

You dramatically increase your value to others if you always maintain a calm and pleasant manner.

The seed of God's Word won't grow to fruitfulness without pruning for rest, quiet, and calm

Now if you are going to win any battle you have to do one thing. You have to make the mind run the body. Never let the body tell the mind what to do. The body will always give up. It is always tired morning, noon, and night. But the body is never tired if the mind is not tired. When you were younger the mind could make you dance all night, and the body was never tired... You've always got to make the mind take over and keep going.

You need to stay calm the day of the contest. Not let the weather bother me and just relax.

Never trust the calm sea when she shows her false alluring smile.

If you are bombarded by so many thoughts in solitude, you are in ignorance. If you are calm even amidst a crowd then you are in knowledge.

Oh, and the easiest way to make someone furious is to tell her to calm down.

Movies have an enormous power to open the mind and the heart and everything. You are sitting and seeing something moving in front of you, and then your mind goes into a trance. You are completely there. It's a real great art; it's not only a business. It's to open the mind, to understand this mystery within reality. This is why we need it.

I already lived in Switzerland in 2002, and from this time I know that it's a very calm country. I really enjoy living there.

Life can be lived in rules, but then life becomes superficial. Live life not according to the laws but according to consciousness, awareness. Don't live life according to the mind. Mind has rules and regulations, mind has rituals. Live life from the standpoint of no-mind so that you can bloom into unpredictable flowers.

The criterion and rule of the true is to have made it. Accordingly, our clear and distinct idea of the mind cannot be a criterion of the mind itself, still less of other truths. For while the mind perceives itself, it does not make itself.

When the intellect and affections are in harmony; when intellectual consciousness is calm and deep; inspiration will not be confounded with fancy.

You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish you. You assume that it gives you the truth, because the rational mind is the golden calf that this culture worships, but this is not true. Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

I think anybody who's working in a creative medium is working partially with their conscious mind, partially with their unconscious mind. So, my unconscious mind may be a little more distorted and violent than I am aware of.

Overstraining is the enemy of accomplishment. Calm strength that arises from a deep and inexhaustible source is what brings success.

Zen is mind-less activity, that is, Mind-ful activity, and it may often be advisable to emphasize the mind, and say, Take care of the thoughts and the actions will take care of themselves.

It's as if I've arrived in a place where it's all spirit and no body -- an overwhelming sense of calm . . . I actually began to feel blessed.

Make your heart like a lake, with calm, still surface, and great depths of kindness.

My life is calm. Once I get home from practice, I just want to spend time with my family.

I'm not always really calm, but I try not to get taken away by things that are incredibly transitory.

The ability to remain calm and focused in stressful situations is central to making positive decisions.

If you remain calm in the midst of great chaos, it is the surest guarantee the it will eventually subside

When you're on the bus or subway or in your car, why busy your mind with all the garbage of advertisements? Why fill your mind with television and radio? Somehow you have to decide what your mind will receive. I don't mean you shouldn't ever go to movies or watch television, but control what enters your mind and heart. It's not just a question of pushing bad things out but also a question of holding on to something really good.

Suicide Note: The calm, Cool face of the river Asked me for a kiss. -Langston Hughes

To be a director, you need to be reliable, on time, confident, calm, all of those things you see demonstrated in the military.

I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.

Young girls envy the life yall leading, never satisfied with a nice calm evening

I've always had a duck personality. Calm above water, feet going crazy below.

Mind can never be intelligent - only no-mind is intelligent. Only no-mind is original and radical. Only no-mind is revolutionary - revolution in action. The mind gives you a sort of stupor. Burdened by the memories of the past, burdened by the projections of the future, you go on living - at the minimum. You dont live at the maximum. Your flame remains very dim. Once you start dropping thoughts, the dust that you have collected in the past, the flame arises - clean, clear, alive, young. Your whole life becomes a flame, and a flame without any smoke. That is what awareness is.

It isn't a hunch but the subconscious mind, which is the creative mind, at work. That is the mind which makes artists do things without their knowing how they came to do them. Perhaps with me it was the cumulative effect of a lot of little things individually insignificant but collectively powerful.

In Varenka, she realized that one has but to forget oneself and love others, and one will be calm, happy, and noble.

A president is supposed to calm the American people with sober decision-making in the national interest.

Let the fame calm down first and then do something. I don't act on emotion, I don't spend on impulse.

I sometimes lose my calm for a moment, but only when I notice that an opponent is deliberately trying to injure me.

When I think of you it's with tears, because no one else has such delicate hands that can reach into my soul and calm my fears.

The nature of the world is to be calm, and enhance and support life, and evil is an absence of the inclination of matter to be at peace.