Calming Quotes - Page 5

• In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

  Robert Barron

  Prayer, Mean, Mind

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• Those who say there's nothing like a nice cup of tea for calming the nerves never had *real* tea. It's like a syringe of adrenaline straight to the heart!

  Cheshire Cat

  Real, Nice, Heart

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• Yoga is ideal for calming the mind and harmonizing with nature. Plus, since this meditation consists of listening to what's taking place in the instant, it brings the mind into the present, where the body resides, producing unification of mind and body.

  H. E Davey

  Yoga, Meditation, Listening

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• Chapel services on race day have a calming effect. It's a nice time for us to worship and try to get the message and hear some music and have a little fellowship together before we get to racing.

  Matt Kenseth

  Nice, Race, Calming Effect

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• There's a lot of different things, but I think love gives us peace one way or another, and a calming effect on our soul, so I don't know exactly what love is to me, but I know I try my best to surround myself with that. Whenever I can. It's hard sometimes.

  Aaron Bruno

  Love Is, Thinking, Calming Effect

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• I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming our mind and just focusing on the argument or the story.

  Nicholas G. Carr

  Thinking, Mind, Stories

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• I somehow hope - naïve though I may be, utopian, possibly - that my music has some kind of calming effect on the universe, that it's somehow beneficial to people.

  John Lydon

  Calming Effect, People, May

  Interview with Jason Heller, www.avclub.com. April 6, 2010.

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• Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

  Jon Kabat-Zinn

  Mirrors, Practice, Mind

  Jon Kabat-Zinn (2005). “Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life”, Hyperion

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• We must come to the Bible with the purpose of self-exposure consciously in mind. I suspect not many people make more than a token stab in that direction. It's extremely hard work. It makes Bible study alternately convicting and reassuring, painful and soothing, puzzling and calming, and sometimes dull - but not for long if our purpose is to see ourselves better.

  Larry Crabb

  Hard Work, Self, Long

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• L.A. is very special to me, so far away from my world on the East Coast, Europe, Asia. It's a bit of an island for me - less intense, less busy; because of time difference and location, it has a calming effect. At least it used to be all that.

  Nicolas Berggruen

  Islands, Europe, Calming Effect

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• Prayers are designed to raise God-consciousness five times a day, throughout one's life. Prayers also provide regular exercise - like yoga or Tai Chi or Qigong built into the day - and serve as a calming retreat from the daily demands of life. Muslims thus learn to balance deeni wa dunyavi (the spiritual and the worldly). They can't abandon one for the other; that's the essence of their faith.

  Haroon Siddiqui

  Spiritual, Prayer, Yoga

  Haroon Siddiqui (2010). “Groundwork Being Muslim”, p.59, A&C Black

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• Practicing regular, mindful breathing can be calming and energizing and can even help with stress-related health problems ranging from panic attacks to digestive disorders.

  Andrew Weil

  Stress, Breathing, Panic Attacks

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• All that is necessary to awaken to yourself as the radiant emptiness of spirit
  is to stop seeking something more or better or different,
  and to turn your attention inward to the awake silence that you are.

  Adyashanti

  Meditation Practice, Meditation And Yoga, Silence

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• Those who are free of resentful thoughts surely find peace.

  Gautama Buddha

  Inspiring, Karma, Wise

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• Being relaxed, at peace with yourself, confident, emotionally neutral loose, and free-floating - these are the keys to successful performance in almost everything.

  Wayne Dyer

  Peace, Successful, Keys

  FaceBook post by Dr. Wayne W. Dyer from Apr 19, 2015

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• Religion is a group of scam artists that sell the calming idea that your body is a temple of God, while your mind belongs to them.

  Jose Antonio Carrillo

  Atheist, Artist, Ideas

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• If you aren't willing to have it, you will.

  Steven C. Hayes

  Anxiety, Willing, Ifs

  Steven C. Hayes (2005). “Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy”, p.44, New Harbinger Publications

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• Stress should be a powerful driving force, not an obstacle.

  Bill Phillips

  Inspirational, Success, Powerful

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• Meditation is how to drop knowledge. Meditation means how to become ignorant again. Meditation means how to become a child again, a rose bush, a rock. Meditation means how just to be and not to think.

  Rajneesh

  Children, Mean, Thinking

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• Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the impossible. Meditation is not one pole: it is the absence of all conflict, all ambition, all ego trips.

  Rajneesh

  Ambition, Light, Meditation

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• Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

  Nhat Hanh

  Meditation Practice, Silence, Understanding

  Thich Nhat Hanh (2008). “Present Moment Wonderful Moment: Mindfulness Verses for Daily Living: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.41, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• When the mind goes beyond the thought of 'the me,' the experiencer, the observer, the thinker, then there is a possibility of a happiness that is incorruptible.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Inspirational Life, Meditation, Mind

  Jiddu Krishnamurti (1991). “The Collected Works of J. Krishnamurti, (1953-1955): What Are You Seeking?”, Kendall Hunt Publishing Company

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• When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

  Eknath Easwaran

  Peace, Calming Effect, Rooms

  Eknath Easwaran (1991). “Meditation: A Simple Eight-point Program for Translating Spiritual Ideals Into Daily Life”, p.91, Nilgiri Press

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• The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.

  Donald Miller

  Beautiful, Real, Deep Water

  Donald Miller (2009). “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years: What I Learned While Editing My Life”, p.87, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• What’s a little calming distraction for your girlfriend in the midst of world entertainment domination?” “I’d stop the world from spinning for you.” That silly line oddly touched me. “I love you.” “Liked that one, did you?

  Sylvia Day

  Girlfriend, Silly, Love You

  Sylvia Day (2013). “The Crossfire Series Books 1-3 by Sylvia Day”, p.650, Penguin

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