The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
When your mind is racing
Thoughts looping faster than you want. These lines are for that kind of minute. Read one. If it doesn't sit right, try the next.
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The soul always knows what to do to heal itself. The challenge is to silence the mind.
Be melting snow. Wash yourself of yourself.
Be still, and know that I am God.
Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.
Between stimulus and response there is a space. In that space is our power to choose our response.
Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate.
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
You are not your thoughts; you are the awareness behind them.
Nothing in life is to be feared, it is only to be understood.
Time is an illusion, lunchtime doubly so.
Worry is like a rocking chair: it gives you something to do but never gets you anywhere.
There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without.
Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.
Smile, breathe and go slowly.
The present moment is the only time over which we have dominion.
Feelings come and go like clouds in a windy sky. Conscious breathing is my anchor.
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.
You are the sky. Everything else — it's just the weather.
Fear is a natural reaction to moving closer to the truth.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
The primary cause of unhappiness is never the situation but your thoughts about it.
Wherever you are, be there totally.
The past has no power over the present moment.
Awareness is the greatest agent for change.
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.
Silence is a source of great strength.
Be here now.
The game is not about becoming somebody, it's about becoming nobody.
We're fascinated by the words — but where we meet is in the silence behind them.
Everything changes once we identify with being the awareness behind the thoughts.
Fear is the cheapest room in the house. I'd like to see you in better living conditions.
You talk when you cease to be at peace with your thoughts.
Feelings, thoughts, and sensations come and go like clouds in the sky. You are the sky.
There is nothing to practice. To know yourself, be yourself. To be yourself, stop imagining yourself to be this or that.
When you can bear your own silence, you are free.
When we believe what we think, when we take our thinking to be reality, we will suffer.
The Lord is my light and my salvation; whom shall I fear?
I sought the Lord, and he answered me; he delivered me from all my fears.
Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.
Cast your cares on the Lord and he will sustain you.
Whoever dwells in the shelter of the Most High will rest in the shadow of the Almighty.
In peace I will lie down and sleep, for you alone, Lord, make me dwell in safety.
Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.
Trust in the Lord with all your heart and lean not on your own understanding.
Anxiety weighs down the heart, but a kind word cheers it up.
The name of the Lord is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
So do not fear, for I am with you; do not be dismayed, for I am your God. I will strengthen you and help you.
Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about itself. Each day has enough trouble of its own.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Do not let your hearts be troubled. You believe in God; believe also in me.
Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you. I do not give to you as the world gives. Do not let your hearts be troubled and do not be afraid.
Do not be anxious about anything, but in every situation, by prayer and petition, with thanksgiving, present your requests to God.
And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Let the peace of Christ rule in your hearts, since as members of one body you were called to peace.
You have a right to perform your prescribed duties, but you are not entitled to the fruits of your actions. Never consider yourself to be the cause of the results of your activities, nor be attached to inaction.
Elevate yourself through the power of your mind, and not degrade yourself, for the mind can be the friend and also the enemy of the self.
Whenever and wherever the restless and unsteady mind wanders, one should bring it back and continually focus it on God.
You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.
The first step toward finding God is to stop telling God what you think God should be doing.
Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don't throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, all things are passing away: God never changes.
Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.
Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart.
People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls.
Worry is the only emotion which does not lead to action.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.
Though the physicality of death destroys us, the idea of death may save us.
The capacity to tolerate uncertainty is a prerequisite for the capacity to love.
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.
The beliefs that we hold about ourselves and the world form the core of our emotional reactions.
If our thinking is faulty, our emotions and actions will be faulty as well.
The way we perceive things is the way we react emotionally.
You feel the way you think.
Your thoughts create your emotions; therefore, if you want to change how you feel, you must change how you think.
The attempt to escape from pain is what creates more pain.
The more we resist our feelings, the more likely they are to persist.
One can choose to go back toward safety or forward toward growth. Growth must be chosen again and again; fear must be overcome again and again.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
Where attention goes, neural firing flows, and neural connection grows.
We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them.
If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
The world as we have created it is a process of our thinking. It cannot be changed without changing our thinking.
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool.
I would rather have questions that can't be answered than answers that can't be questioned.
It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
Science is a way of thinking much more than it is a body of knowledge.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.
I am one of those who think like Nobel, that humanity will draw more good than evil from new discoveries.
The past, like the future, is indefinite and exists only as a spectrum of possibilities.
The whole history of science has been the gradual realization that events do not happen in an arbitrary manner, but that they reflect a certain underlying order.
The good thing about science is that it's true whether or not you believe in it.
Science is a way of equipping yourself with tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
The more I learn about the universe, the less convinced I am that there's any sort of planned intervention.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Measure what is measurable, and make measurable what is not so.
The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
We have two ears and one mouth so that we can listen twice as much as we speak.
Thinking: the talking of the soul with itself.
It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.
The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
When we are tired, we are attacked by ideas we conquered long ago.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of.
Real generosity toward the future lies in giving all to the present.
Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.
The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast.
Those who know do not speak. Those who speak do not know.
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves.
Color in a picture is like enthusiasm in life.
Everything you can imagine is real.
Colors, like features, follow the changes of the emotions.
I begin with an idea and then it becomes something else.
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
The only journey is the one within.
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
Good prose is like a windowpane.
If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them.
Nobody sees a flower really; it is so small. We haven't time, and to see takes time.
What I dream of is an art of balance, of purity and serenity, devoid of troubling or depressing subject matter.
I don't paint things. I only paint the difference between things.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Less artifice in art, please.
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day.
The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.
Live quietly in the moment and see the beauty of all before you. The future will take care of itself.
Be as simple as you can be; you will be astonished to see how uncomplicated and happy your life can become.
As long as one does not surrender the mind, one is a slave of the mind.
Working in this state of consciousness, there is no loss or adverse result, and even a little effort saves one from great danger.
One whose mind remains undisturbed amidst misery, who does not crave for pleasure, and who is free from attachment, fear, and anger, is called a sage of steady wisdom.
Just as the ocean remains undisturbed by the incessant flow of waters from rivers merging into it, likewise the sage who is unmoved despite the flow of desirable objects all around him attains peace, and not the person who strives to satisfy desires.
Being free from attachment, fear, and anger, becoming fully absorbed in Me, and taking refuge in Me, many persons in the past became purified by knowledge of Me, and thus attained My divine love.
For those who have conquered the mind, it is their friend. For those who have failed to do so, the mind works like an enemy.
Just as a lamp in a windless place does not flicker, so the disciplined mind of a yogi remains steady in meditation on the Supreme.
The mind is very restless, turbulent, strong and obstinate, O Krishna. It appears to me that it is more difficult to control than the wind.
O mighty-armed son of Kunti, what you say is correct; the mind is indeed very difficult to restrain. But by practice and detachment, it can be controlled.
Those who are not a source of annoyance to anyone and who in turn are not agitated by anyone, who are equal in pleasure and pain, and free from fear and anxiety, such devotees of Mine are very dear to Me.