Quotes About Calm

The verses are meant to help us to bring our awareness back to what's happening in the present moment.

The key to creating a home meditation practice is to create a space where the busyness stops.

We ought to listen to music or sit and practice breathing at the beginning of every meeting or discussion.

In what spirit is this explanation given? Without being caught up in signs, just according to things as they are, without agitation.

When our mind is calm, it reflects reality accurately, without distortion. Breathing, sitting, and walking with mindfulness calms disturbing mental formations such as anger, fear, and despair, allowing us to see reality more clearly.

Because we know that our feelings are ourselves, we do not neglect or overrule them. We embrace them affectionately in the arms of mindfulness, as a mother embraces her newborn child when it cries. A mother embraces the child with all her love for the child to feel comforted and stop crying. Mindfulness nourished by conscious breathing takes the feelings in its arms, becomes one with them, calms and transforms them.

It was given unto you to know the Peace of God, he insisted, quoting Paul and thereafter sentences from Corinthians, Galatians, Ephesians, on how easy it was—if Clyde would but repeat and pray as he had asked him to—for him to know and delight in the peace that passeth all understanding.

Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness.

To meditate with mindful breathing is to bring body and mind back to the present moment so that you do not miss your appointment with life.

Breathing in, I know I have an unpleasant feeling. Breathing out, I am here for this unpleasant feeling. Breathing in, I calm the feeling in me. Breathing out, I calm the feeling in me.

Find space in your day when you can practice mindful breathing and letting go of tensions.

Don't chew your worries, your fear, or your anger. If you chew your planning and your anxiety, it's difficult to feel grateful for each piece of food. Just chew your food.

When you have trouble sleeping, follow your breathing in and breathing out. Bring your awareness to the different parts of your body in turn, and allow them to relax.

In. Out. Deep. Slow. Calm. Ease. Smile. Release. Present moment. Wonderful moment.

Whatever the tasks, do them slowly and with ease, in mindfulness.

You have to train yourself, to learn how to go home to the present moment, to the here and now

The first function of meditation — shamatha — is to stop.

We have to learn to build safety with our in-breath and our out-breath. We have to learn to build safety with our steps, with our way of acting and reacting, with our words and our efforts to build communication.

Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile.

Breathing in, I calm my body. Breathing out, I smile. Dwelling in the present moment, I know this is a wonderful moment.

If we practice for five or ten minutes every day, we'll naturally remember how to practice when we most need it, and we can survive the onslaught of a strong emotion very easily.

This is the practice of nonviolence with your worries, fear, and anger. If you get angry with your anger, it is multiplied ten times.

The Buddha teaches that change requires insight, and insight cannot begin until we stop and focus our attention on what is happening right in front of us. This stopping, or shamatha, allows us to rest the body and the mind. When we have calmed ourselves, we can then go on to look deeply into our current situation. We need to step off our frantic life treadmills, to stop unconsciously doing the same things over and over again that have allowed our weight to creep up.

For most of us, our original fear continues in some form. Sometimes we might feel scared of being alone. We may feel that alone I can't make it; I have to find somebody. This is a continuation of our original fear. If we look deeply, however, we will find that we have the capacity to calm our fear and find our own happiness.