Calmness – Quotes

I\\’ve just become quite

I’ve just become quite fixated on the idea of calmness and peacefulness somewhere, someday. Ellie Goulding

Imagine that the universe is a great spinning engine. You want to stay near the core of the thing – right in the hub of the wheel – not out at the edges where all the wild whirling takes place, where you can get frayed and crazy. The hub of calmness – that’s your heart. … Read more

Is there in painting

Is there in painting an effect which arises from the being together of repose and energy in the artist’s mind? – can both repose and energy be seen in a painting’s line and color, plane and volume, surface and depth, detail and composition? – and is the true effect of a good painting on the … Read more

Power is so characteristically

Power is so characteristically calm that calmness in itself has the aspect of power, and forbearance implies strength. The orator who is known to have at his command all the weapons of invective is most formidable when most courteous. Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

We have forgotten what

We have forgotten what rocks and plants still know – we have forgotten how to be – to be still – to be ourselves – to be where life is here and now Eckhart Tolle

True creativity flows only

True creativity flows only from stillness. When stillness becomes conscious, the spiritual dimension enters your life and you begin to be guided by an intelligence far greater than the human mind. Eckhart Tolle

The thing about the

The thing about the intuition is that there’s always a calmness to it, if it says yes to us or even if it says no. It’s always very calm and a feeling of wisdom comes with it. Echo Bodine

Just as a waterfall

Just as a waterfall grows slower and more lightly suspended as it plunges down, so the great man of action tends to act with greater calmness than his tempestuous desires prior to the deed would lead one to expect. Friedrich Nietzsche

To learn to see-

To learn to see- to accustom the eye to calmness, to patience, and to allow things to come up to it; to defer judgment, and to acquire the habit of approaching and grasping an individual case from all sides. This is the first preparatory schooling of intellectuality. One must not respond immediately to a stimulus; … Read more

He who seeks truth

He who seeks truth must be content with a lonely, little-trodden path. If he cannot worship her till she has been canonized by the shouts of the multitude, he must take his place with the members of that wretched crowd who shouted for two long hours, \”Great is Diana of the Ephesians!\” till truth, reason, … Read more