Marcus Aurelius Quotes

The best jujitsu practitioners are really serene and grounded.

You are running to seek your friend. Let your feet run, but your mind need not.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.

The mind has to be gradually and systematically brought under control.

To learn to concentrate we must choose a prayer or meditation and follow this path with commitment and steadiness, a willingness to work with our practice day after day, no matter what arises.

Do not let the body be dragged along by mind nor the mind be dragged along by the body

I note how calm she looks and how focused she is. She is well-practiced in the art of losing herself. I can't say the same of myself.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

The Bhagavad-Gita calls on humanity to dedicate body, mind and soul to pure duty and not to become mental voluptuaries at the mercy of random desires and undisciplined impulses.

Learning to ignore things is one of the great paths to inner peace.

I am calmly active, actively calm. I am the prince of peace sitting on a throne of poise, directing the kingdom of my activity.

A Warrior is never in a hurry.

Zen aims at freedom but its practice is disciplined.

If you are centered, you can move freely.

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

Be still. In that focus, all else comes into focus. In that rift in my routine, the universe falls into alignment.

Non-doing has nothing to do with being indolent or passive. Quite the contrary. It takes great courage and energy to cultivate non-doing, both in stillness and in activity. Nor is it easy to make a special time for non-doing and to keep at it in the face of everything in our lives which needs to be done.

When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.

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

I am calm most of the time.

You can't control the world, but when you control your thoughts, you bring order.

I like my life to be pure and clean and organised, and I like to have had eight hours' sleep a night. I honestly don't think I'd be as successful if I was a party animal. Because I don't think my personality would be as focused and open as it is.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquillize the mind as a steady purpose—a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

I try to meditate.