Echoes

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Nowhere you can go is more peaceful — more free of interruptions — than your own soul.

With an eye made quiet by the power of harmony, and the deep power of joy, we see into the life of things.

The primary indication, to my thinking, of a well-ordered mind is a man's ability to remain in one place and linger in his own company.

First keep the peace within yourself, then you can also bring peace to others.

In silence and in stillness a devout soul maketh progress, and learneth the mysteries of Holy Scripture.

Men seek retreats for themselves, houses in the country, sea-shores, and mountains. But this is altogether a mark of the most common sort of men, for it is in thy power whenever thou shalt choose to retire into thyself. For nowhere either with more quiet or more freedom from trouble does a man retire than into his own soul.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.

Yes, as everyone knows, meditation and water are wedded forever.

God rests in Himself, and makes all things rest in Him.

I go among trees and sit still. All my stirring becomes quiet around me like circles on water.

Mind is the king of the senses; breath is the king of the mind.

Attention, taken to its highest degree, is the same thing as prayer.

The best fighter is never angry.

Let us be silent, that we may hear the whisper of the gods.

How easy it is to repel and to wipe away every impression which is troublesome or unsuitable, and immediately to be in all tranquility.

I loafe and invite my soul, I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.

One can have no smaller or greater mastery than mastery of oneself.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

Everyone sees the unseen in proportion to the clarity of his heart, and that depends upon how much he has polished it. Whoever has polished it more sees more — more unseen forms become manifest to him.

Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.

Silence is a fence around wisdom.

Accept everything just the way it is.

When breath is unsteady, the mind is unsteady. When breath is steady, the mind is steady. The yogi should therefore restrain the breath.