The quieter you become, the more you can hear.
When it's too much at once
Too many plates in the air. Take one line, then the rest can wait.
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Be still, and know that I am God.
This too shall pass.
Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.
Cast all your anxiety on Him because He cares for you.
Happiness does not come from having much, but from being attached to little.
Worrying is carrying tomorrow's load with today's strength.
We suffer more in imagination than in reality.
The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you.
Don't take life too seriously. You'll never get out of it alive.
It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.
He who is not satisfied with a little, is satisfied with nothing.
You have power over your mind, not outside events. Realize this, and you will find strength.
It's not what happens to you, but how you react to it that matters.
There is nothing more musical than a sunset.
I paint objects as I think them, not as I see them.
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
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.
Breathing in, I calm body and mind. Breathing out, I smile.
The most precious gift we can offer others is our presence.
Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear.
No mud, no lotus.
You are the sky. Everything else — it's just the weather.
To be fully alive, fully human, and completely awake is to be continually thrown out of the nest.
The most difficult times for many of us are the ones we give ourselves.
We think that the point is to pass the test or to overcome the problem, but the truth is that things don't really get solved. They come together and they fall apart.
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have.
Some changes look negative on the surface but you will soon realize that space is being created in your life for something new to emerge.
Whatever the present moment contains, accept it as if you had chosen it.
Wherever you are, be there totally.
Life will give you whatever experience is most helpful for the evolution of your consciousness.
You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by realizing who you are at the deepest level.
Worry pretends to be necessary but serves no useful purpose.
Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you.
Silence is a source of great strength.
Be here now.
Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
To bow to the fact of our life's sorrows and betrayals is to accept them; and from this deep gesture we discover that all life is workable.
Peace comes not from the absence of conflict, but from the ability to cope with it.
Your pain is the breaking of the shell that encloses your understanding.
Feelings, thoughts, and sensations come and go like clouds in the sky. You are the sky.
Don't try to change what is happening. Just observe, just see.
Stop trying to change the moment. Allow the moment to change you.
Be a lamp, or a lifeboat, or a ladder. Help someone's soul heal.
The Lord is my shepherd; I shall not want.
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.
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.
I lift up my eyes to the mountains—where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the Maker of heaven and earth.
The Lord is my rock, my fortress and my deliverer.
Truly my soul finds rest in God; my salvation comes from him.
The Lord is near to all who call on him, to all who call on him in truth.
The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusts in him, and he helps me.
In all your ways submit to him, and he will make your paths straight.
Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans.
The name of the Lord is a fortified tower; the righteous run to it and are safe.
A gentle answer turns away wrath, but a harsh word stirs up anger.
In their hearts humans plan their course, but the Lord establishes their steps.
Many are the plans in a person's heart, but it is the Lord's purpose that prevails.
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.
Have I not commanded you? Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged, for the Lord your God will be with you wherever you go.
Be strong and courageous. Do not be afraid or terrified, for the Lord your God goes with you; he will never leave you nor forsake you.
The Lord is good, a refuge in times of trouble. He cares for those who trust in him.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God.
Come to me, all you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and you will find rest for your souls.
But seek first his kingdom and his righteousness, and all these things will be given to you as well.
Are not two sparrows sold for a penny? Yet not one of them will fall to the ground outside your Father's care.
For no word from God will ever fail.
Do not be afraid, little flock, for your Father has been pleased to give you the kingdom.
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.
I have told you these things, so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.
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.
I can do all this through him who gives me strength.
My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.
For God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind.
Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you.
If any of you lacks wisdom, you should ask God, who gives generously to all without finding fault, and it will be given to you.
Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.
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.
O son of Kunti, the contact between the senses and the sense objects gives rise to fleeting perceptions of happiness and distress. These are non-permanent, and come and go like the winter and summer seasons. O descendent of Bharat, one must learn to tolerate them without being disturbed.
Whenever and wherever the restless and unsteady mind wanders, one should bring it back and continually focus it on God.
Abandon all varieties of dharmas and simply surrender unto Me alone. I shall liberate you from all sinful reactions; do not fear.
Be steadfast in the performance of your duty, O Arjun, abandoning attachment to success and failure. Such equanimity is called Yog.
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.
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.
If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at God, you'll be at rest.
Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you.
Let nothing disturb you, let nothing frighten you, all things are passing away: God never changes.
Patience obtains all things. Whoever has God lacks nothing; God alone suffices.
All shall be well, and all shall be well, and all manner of thing shall be well.
When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.
Those who have a why to live can bear almost any how.
Worry is the only emotion which does not lead to action.
The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook.
The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination.
Growth occurs when individuals confront problems, struggle to master them, and through that struggle develop new aspects of their skills and capacities.
If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.
Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do.
Perfectionism is the enemy of creativity and productivity.
The ability to be in the present moment is a major component of mental wellness.
It is an ironic habit of human beings to run faster when we have lost our way.
You are doing the best you can, and you can do better.
Radical acceptance rests on letting go of the illusion of control and a willingness to notice and accept things as they are right now.
Life is not always going to go your way. You have to be able to deal with that.
Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challenge.
Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.
Try not to become a person of success, but rather try to become a person of value.
A calm and modest life brings more happiness than the pursuit of success combined with constant restlessness.
The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible.
Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.
Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter.
You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish.
Nature uses only the longest threads to weave her patterns, so that each small piece of her fabric reveals the organization of the entire tapestry.
I think nature's imagination is so much greater than man's, she's never going to let us relax.
If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy.
One never notices what has been done; one can only see what remains to be done.
Life is not easy for any of us. But what of that? We must have perseverance and above all confidence in ourselves.
However difficult life may seem, there is always something you can do and succeed at.
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star.
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.
Science is a way of equipping yourself with tools to interpret what happens in front of you.
To myself I am only a child playing on the beach, while vast oceans of truth lie undiscovered before me.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my tenacity.
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution.
Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
Science and everyday life cannot and should not be separated.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.
In this great chain of causes and effects, no single fact can be considered in isolation.
True happiness is to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.
He suffers more than necessary, who suffers before it is necessary.
Life is long if you know how to use it.
Very little is needed to make a happy life; it is all within yourself, in your way of thinking.
If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it.
The impediment to action advances action. What stands in the way becomes the way.
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
We cannot choose our external circumstances, but we can always choose how we respond to them.
Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens.
Freedom is the only worthy goal in life. It is won by disregarding things that lie beyond our control.
He who is not contented with what he has, would not be contented with what he would like to have.
The beginning is the most important part of the work.
The greatest wealth is to live content with little.
Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.
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.
Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.
Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.
To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.
A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside will never be happy.
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.
Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.
Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.
When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps.
The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step.
The soft overcomes the hard. The slow overcomes the fast.
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small.
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.
Act without expectation.
Poetry is an act of peace.
There is no theory. You have only to listen. Pleasure is the law.
Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must not bore us.
Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration.
Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout of some painful illness.
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.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
Simplicity is the final achievement.
The more constraints one imposes, the more one frees one's self.
The best way out is always through.
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.
If you really want to find happiness, dig into your path, go deeper in your path, and you will find happiness.
I am confused about my duty, and am besieged with anxiety and faintheartedness. I am Your disciple, and am surrendered to You. Please instruct me for certain what is best for me.
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.
Content with whatever gain comes of its own accord, and free from envy, they are beyond the dualities of life. Being equipoised in success and failure, they are not bound by their actions, even while performing all kinds of activities.
Those who dedicate their actions to God, abandoning all attachment, remain untouched by sin, just as a lotus leaf is untouched by water.
Better than mechanical practice is knowledge; better than knowledge is meditation. Better than meditation is renunciation of the fruits of actions, for peace immediately follows such renunciation.
If you always remember Me, by My grace you shall overcome all obstacles and difficulties.