831 Quotes About Calm

I was thinking today of my greatest happiness, a walk along a cliff by the sea, and you at the end of it.

Maybe finding ‘peace of mind’ begins by realizing that ‘peace’ will never begin in my ‘mind.’ And if I spend my life paying such a thought ‘no mind,’ never-mind finding ‘peace.

The greatest measure of success is not money but a calm and loving mind.

The brain is a pleasure seeking machine. Once you teach it, through meditation, that abiding calmly in the present moment feels better than our habitual state of clinging l, over time, the brain will want more and more mindfulness.

Meditation has countless benefits - from better health to increased focus to a deeper sense of calm - but the biggie is the ability to respond instead of react to your impulses and urges. In meditation, instead of succumbing to deeply rooted habits of the mind like desire & aversion, you simply watch what comes up in your head non-judgementally.

Still your waters. If you're constantly busy, you can't learn about yourself. If you don't learn about yourself, how can you become peaceful?

When you can no longer count the peaceful moments in your day, and life becomes a wonderful place of clear thoughts and calm. You know things are as right as they should be.

I drank because it was lovely and I needed a calm to understand the reality.

Ignorance might be bliss. But self-forgetfulness is pure ecstasy.