Quotes About Quietness Of Mind

#1. Bless us Lord, this Christmas, with quietness of mind; Teach us to be patient and always to be kind.

Helen Steiner Rice

#2. Bear patiently your exile and the dryness of your mind. The time will come when I will make you forget these painful moments and you will enjoy inward quietness. I will open the Bible for you and you will be thrilled by your new understanding of my truth.

Thomas A Kempis

#3. Allow the heart to empty itself of all turmoil! Retrieve the utter tranquility of the mind from which you issued.
Although all forms are dynamic,and we all grow and transform,each of us is compelled to return to our root. Our root is quietude.

Lao-Tzu

#4. The only reason that people 'Choose' to go backwards is because they let their mind take control. Their mind points them in that direction because it's convenient.

If we learn to quiet the mind the soul has a way of painting the bigger picture for taking the right action into growth.

Matthew Donnelly

#5. I'm practicing the discipline of not having to have the last word.

Dallas Willard

#6. Can the mind see the truth of its own incapacity to know the unknown? Surely if I see very clearly that my mind cannot know the unknown, there is absolute quietness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#7. It is refreshing, and salutary, to study the poise and quietness of Christ. His task and responsibility might well have driven a man out of his mind. But He was never in a hurry, never impressed by numbers, never a slave of the clock.

J.B. Phillips

#8. You're a man, but the day you raise your voice to your mother, you're not anymore.

Tariq Ramadan

#9. The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

#10. The heart that once has been bathed in love's pure fountain retains the pulse of youth forever.

Walter Savage Landor

#11. Chaos is peaceful when you stand quietly & watch - we are eternal observers, reflecting both tiny & vast, singing infinitely within.

Jay Woodman

#12. The way to see what looks good and understand the reasons it looks good, and to be at one with this goodness as the work proceeds, is to cultivate an inner quietness, a peace of mind so that goodness can shine through.

Robert M. Pirsig

#13. To the ego, the present moment hardly exists. Only past and future are considered important. This total reversal of the truth accounts for the fact that in the ego mode the mind is so dysfunctional. It is always concerned with keeping the past alive, because without it - who are you?

Eckhart Tolle

#14. ...my wants are few, and at any rate I had peace and quietness and wasn't always being asked to come along and do something. And I've got such an active mind - always occupied, I assure you!

Kenneth Grahame

#15. Peace doesn't deny difficulty, but it has an inner calm and quietness even while enduring the difficulty.

Glenn C. Stewart

#16. It is in the dark quietness the mind likes to play. The weak and tired body looses it's battle for power while the minds plays it's wild adventures for you to explore.

E.A.G.

#17. Today, tonight, tommorrow, forever. I was made for you

Michelle Hodkin

#18. When everything in your life is silent, enjoy the quietness of your mind. This is the place of peace, a sacred place, and a time for reflection, a time to be guided on the path of your journey ...

James A. Murphy

#19. 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

#20. By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

B.K.S. Iyengar

#21. Counseling has to do with intuition, with work on oneself, with the quietness of one's mind and the openness of one's heart.

Ram Dass

#22. Only in quietness do we possess our own minds and discover the resources of the Inner Life.

Helen Keller

#23. It [ME] is one of the most disabling diseases that I care for, far exceeding HIV disease except for the terminal stages.

Daniel L. Peterson