Octavio Paz Quotes

In the madness, you have to find calm.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

I am learning peacefulness, lying by myself quietly, as the light lies on these white walls, this bed, these hands. I am nobody; I have nothing to do with explosions.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

The ideal person is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

What is true stillness? Stillness in movement.

When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'

If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.

My other life keeps me calm and grounded and normal.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

Take a moment every day to find peace. Pull over to the side of the road, turn off the radio, and find peace.

I'm at a point in my life where I have something solid now. I'm a peaceful person, and I want to be surrounded by peace no matter what I'm doing.

The secret of success is to be in harmony with existence, to be always calm to let each wave of life wash us a little farther up the shore.

Every breath we take, every step we make, can be filled with peace, joy and serenity.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

Movement is tranquility.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

If you can't find peace inside, you'll never be at peace.