Quiet Your Mind Quotes

#1. Quiet your mind and stop judging and resisting and manipulating the natural way.

Laozi

#2. In the craziness of our world, it takes tremendous effort to find a quiet place. It takes time to quiet your mind and your heart before the Lord.

Francis Chan

#3. To create you must quiet your mind. You need a quiet mind so that ideas will have a chance of connecting.

Eric Maisel

#4. My own words are not the medicine, but a prescription; not the destination, but a map to help you reach it. When you get there, quiet your mind and close your mouth. Don't analyze the Tao. Strive instead to live it: silently, undividedly, with your whole harmonious being.

Laozi

#5. When you first awaken or before drifting off to sleep, quiet your mind, lift up your heart, muse, mull over, make discoveries. Consider, conceive, create, connect, concede that it all starts within.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#6. and you try to quiet your mind so you can hear...

Anne Lamott

#7. Don't worry about the finish line. Don't question what you're doing. Just quiet your mind and keep up the pace.

Dana Reinhardt

#8. When the mind is silent and quiet, then inner energies wake up and work miracles on your behalf without any conscious effort on your part.

Deepak Chopra

#9. Truth comes when your mind and heart are purged of all sense of striving and you are no longer trying to become somebody; it is there when the mind is very quiet, listening timelessly to everything.

Bruce Lee

#10. Be quiet in your mind, quiet in your senses, and also quiet in your body. Then, when all these are quiet, don't do anything. In that state truth will reveal itself to you.

Kabir

#11. When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.

Frederick Lenz

#12. Learn to be silent. Let your quiet mind listen and absorb.

Pythagoras

#13. Wisdom is seeing that there are templates in the universe that you can follow. They will show you what to do and what not to do. In order to see them you have to make your mind very quiet, very still.

Frederick Lenz

#14. By balancing your breathing, you can control your emotions and calm your mind. From the quiet mind arises the wisdom and insight that help you make good choices.

Ilchi Lee

#15. Give your mind a lot of space and it quiets down; try to control, quiet, or restrict it, and it goes wild.

Steve Hagen

#16. Happiness is the harvest of a quiet mind. Anchor your thoughts on peace, poise, security and divine guidance and your mind will be productive of happiness.

Joseph Murphy

#17. Make it your ambition to lead a quiet life, to mind your own business and to work with your hands, so that your daily life may win the respect of outsiders and so that you will not be dependent on anybody.

Anonymous

#18. The key is to be quiet. It's not that
your mind has to be quiet. You be quiet.
You, the one inside watching the
neurotic mind, just relax.

Michael Singer

#19. When you can quiet the fluctuations of your mind and drift into stillness & silence, you can finally hear the whispers of your heart ... the whispers of god.

Davidji

#20. Be open in everything with your partner, because where there is secrecy, it can mistakenly come off as being sneaky; where you just may be innocently quiet.

Anthony Liccione

#21. It's a dark, cool, quiet place. A basement in your soul. And that place can sometimes be dangerous to the human mind. I can open the door and enter that darkness, but I have to be very careful. I can find my story there. Then I bring that thing to the surface, into the real world.

Haruki Murakami

#22. Make your mind quiet of disturbing thoughts by focusing on subtle energy on your palms, inside your body and all around.

Ilchi Lee

#23. Right underneath your thoughts and negative emotions exists an ocean of love. You have but to quiet the mind to experience it.

Barbara Ann Kipfer

#24. But a doctor learns, because he has to, not to worry actively about patients until the worrying can do some good; meanwhile, they have to be walled off in a quiet compartment of the mind. They don't teach that at medical school, but it's as important as your stethoscope.

Jack Finney

#25. Oh sober-minded reader, never sneer at such fantasies. In the quiet of your mind, when the deep night is at it's blackest, are you always so certain of what is real?

Ann Eliza Young

#26. Good is towing the line, being behaved, being quiet, being passive, fitting in, being liked, and great is being messy, having a belly, speaking your mind, standing up for what you believe in, fighting for another paradigm, not letting people talk you out of what you know to be true.

Eve Ensler

#27. Meditation is not a way of making your mind quiet.
It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there -
buried under the 50,000 thoughts
the average person thinks every day

Deepak Chopra

#28. We need quiet time to examine our lives openly and honestly - spending quiet time alone gives your mind an opportunity to renew itself and create order.

Susan L. Taylor

#29. Miracles and angels are a part of our lives, so anticipate them and tune in through your quiet mind.

Bernie Siegel

#30. Something is happening because of silence, because of peace, because of silence; if your mind is silent, if your mind is quiet, there is God, there is silence, this is the silence that is contagious.

H.W.L. Poonja

#31. True human capabilities will not find expression in competition. True human capabilities will find expression only in absolute relaxation. Your mind, your body will work best, will find fullest expression, only when you are joyful and peaceful, and quiet within yourself.

Jaggi Vasudev

#32. How will you become free? With a quiet mind Come into that empty house, your heart, And feel the joy of the way Beyond the world. Look within - The rising and the falling.

Gautama Buddha

#33. It is all your desires that you see, when you think. But when your mind is quiet, without desire, you are complete and as wonderful as you have always been.

H.W.L. Poonja

#34. Let your mind be quiet, realizing the beauty of the world, and the immense boundless treasures that it holds.

Edward Carpenter

#35. Every time you sit down to meditate, you have to sit down with a resolve to win. You are going to sit there and will your mind to be happy, quiet and still.

Frederick Lenz

#36. There's nothing like the peace of the countryside, the quiet and the lack of distraction. It helps you to focus your mind.

Jenny Nimmo

#37. In the solitude of meditation, when your conscious mind becomes quiet, your subconscious reveals herself.

Nityananda Das

#38. As you focus your attention on the heart center, you will begin to feel your thoughts slowing down. You'll begin to feel your mind becoming calm and quiet. They won't bother you.

Frederick Lenz

#39. You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.

Norbert Of Xanten

#40. Go in all simplicity; do not be anxious to win a quiet mind, and it will be all the quieter. Do not examine so closely into the progress of your soul. Do not crave too much to be perfect, but let your spiritual life beformed by your duties, and by the actions which are called forth by circumstances.

Saint Francis De Sales

#41. Before you rise every morning let your mind drift gently to the awareness of the support you can draw from this quiet moment as you align your life with your Soul purpose and gather around you and be receptive and connect to the love your Soul brings to you.

Genevieve Gerard

#42. Look at your mind dispassionately; this is enough to calm it. When it is quiet, you can go beyond it. Do not keep it busy all the time. Stop it - and just BE.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#43. I like working on the house, small carpentry stuff. I also like working on the van. That's about as quiet as my mind gets, I think. I always loved working on the How's Your News? TV show and at Camp Jabberwocky too.

Chad Urmston

#44. A piece of advice his father had given him surfaced in Edgar's mind. Sometimes, he had said, it's better just to keep quiet and think with your heart.

Sharan Newman

#45. Whatever you may have to do, watch your mind. Also you must have moments of complete inner peace and quiet, when your mind is absolutely still. If you miss it, you miss the entire thing. If you do not, the silence of the mind will dissolve and absorb all else.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

#46. This country life doesn't look so bad from the window. It melts your heart. It warms your soul.lets you think about the possibility of quiet and how quiet is beautiful when seen through the proper lenses and mind-set.

Jason Myers

#47. Have you ever sat very silently, not with your attention fixed on anything, not making an effort to concentrate, but with the mind very quiet, really still?

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#48. Can you be alone without being lonely? Can you spend time by yourself without craving noise or company of other people? Have you discovered the glory of quiet time spent alone, time spent listening to your soul? Solitude brings with it gifts that come from nowhere else.

Steve Goodier

#49. A quiet mind does not mean that there will be no thoughts or mental movements at all, but that these will be on the surface, and you will feel your true being within, separate from them, observing but not carried away

Sri Aurobindo

#50. It was always late at night, when everything and everyone else was quiet, that those voices would rise like ghosts, soft and haunting, filling your mind until sleep finally came.

Sarah Dessen

#51. Last night your thin walls invited me to the party next door / reminded me I am a quiet person in a quiet life.

Drew Myron

#52. When you open your heart with a quiet mind love rushes in.

Genevieve Gerard

#53. Try to be still inside. Learn to quiet and stop thought, and you will be able to develop your mind. Your psychic intuition will start to come about.

Frederick Lenz

#54. Thoughts will lead you in circles. Silence will bring you back to your centre.

Rasheed Ogunlaru

#55. What's happening?" Her question was quiet.
"Honey, cast your mind back," he urged gently. "Two minutes ago, I was kissin' you. Three days ago, I was dancin' with you. You know what's happening.

Kristen Ashley

#56. Come, my friend, forget your foes, and leave your fears behind, And wander forth to try your luck, with cheerful, quiet mind; For be your fortune great or small, you take what God will give, And all the day your heart will say, 'Tis luck enough to live.

Henry Van Dyke

#57. Refuse all thoughts except one: the thought 'I am'. The mind will rebel in the beginning, but with patience and perseverance it will yield and keep quiet. Once you are quiet, things will begin to happen spontaneously and quite naturally, without any interference on your part.

Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj