Mental Calmness Quotes

Careless indifference and bodily restlessness in meditation cause negative vibrations.

If you are pained by any external thing, it is not this that disturbs you, but your own judgment about it.

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

Compassion, tolerance, forgiveness and a sense of self-discipline are qualities that help us lead our daily lives with a calm mind

Peace is not a relationship of nations. It is a condition of mind brought about by a serenity of soul. Peace is not merely the absence of war. It is also a state of mind. Lasting peace can come only to peaceful people.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

External silence can be the doorway to inner silence.

When you've seen beyond yourself, then you may find, peace of mind is waiting there.

If you're not settled spiritually, things can be a little bit more chaotic than normal.

You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

I've always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the floorboards of the skull well swept, all the little monsters closed up in a steamer trunk at the foot of the bed.

Writing is a very calming thing for me.

From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

Success is measured by your discipline and inner peace.

You spend so much time in your head in life. And what yoga does is, it asks you to allow your head to be quiet, to allow it to be still, just for an hour and a half. Just deal with your body and your breath. And it's a great workout. I love it.

The suffering is in the mind. The mind. In the mind. Witness it. From your spiritual heart.

Self-knowledge is an anchor that makes unpredictability tolerable.

It's important to feel settled and balanced in life, and that has been tough for me to do.

Thoughts come and go. It's impossible to stop your thoughts, but the idea is that the thoughts are kind of like waves on the ocean. That's Jon Kabat-Zinn's big analogy and that this is actually kind of diving under the waves. And you know it's kind of interesting.

I think I approach pressure by having discipline and learning to be calm in everyday life. I do this with a daily mindfulness practice and commitment.

What you feel spiritually. I think a lot of that has to do with it. If you have no spiritual life, chances are everything is going to aggravate you, you're going to fly off the handle at everything and that's what I did in the past. I've kind of got that under control now.

There are many things that are essential to arriving at true peace of mind, and one of the most important is faith, which cannot be acquired without prayer.