calmness

The power of prayer is so profound that it can assuage our emotions. It calms the mind, dilutes all our worries, gives an anchor to fears and endows us with a remarkable peace of mind.

Patience is the antidote to the restless poison of the Ego. Without it we all become ego-maniacal bulls in china shops, destroying our future happiness as we blindly rush in where angels fear to tread. In these out-of-control moments, we bulldoze through the best possible outcomes for our lives, only to return to the scene of the crime later to cry over spilt milk.

In your serenity there is a clarity, strength and correctness that is beyond the petty scuffles of the moment _ a greater truth. It is the truth of who you are; beautiful, calm, secure, open, willing and safe.

Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy.

Dear Lord, I ask that you help me make it through today with patience, understanding, and calmness in my heart. I ask that you replace any darkness in my life with light and my frustrations with joy. I ask these things in Jesus__ name, amen.

The key to happiness - or that even more desired thing, calmness - lies not in always thinking happy thoughts. No. That is impossible. No mind on earth with any kind of intelligence could spend a lifetime enjoying only happy thoughts. They key is in accepting your thoughts, all of them, even the bad ones. Accept thoughts, but don't become them. Understand, for instance, that having a sad thought, even having a continual succession of sad thoughts, is not the same as being a sad person.

We do not content ourselves with the life we have in ourselves and in our own being; we desire to live an imaginary life in the mind of others, and for this purpose we endeavour to shine. We labour unceasingly to adorn and preserve this imaginary existence, and neglect the real. And if we possess calmness, or generosity, or truthfulness, we are eager to make it known, so as to attach these virtues to that imaginary existence. We would rather separate them from ourselves to join them to it; and we would willingly be cowards in order to acquire the reputation of being brave. A great proof of the nothingness of our being, not to be satisfied with the one without the other, and to renounce the one for the other! For he would be infamous who would not die to preserve his honour.

Calmness is the cradle of power.

In calmness of mind is greatness.

There is a simple path to follow, that appears only when you calm your mind.

Nothing can give you peace if there is no calmness in your mind.

The calmness was fracturing, tendrils of fear seeping through her mind like ivy. Once the fear consumed her, she'd run.

Yoga is bringing fitness in body, calmness in mind, kindness in heart and awareness in life.

As it was, she gave him the single most important gift a parent can give___ sense of unconditional love that was big enough that, with all the surface disturbances of our lives, it sustained me, entirely._ People wonder about his calm and even-keeled manner, the [P]resident observed. He credited the temperament he was born with and the fact that __rom a very early age, I always felt I was loved and that my mother thought I was special.

Human complexity can be conquered with calmness.

You can conquer any aggressive action, with restraint and patient.

In the horrors of war, please bring me peace.

The past few months have been the most serene of his adult life. The megalopolis in his mind has quieted to a country road. He does his work, he eats his bread, and he sleeps with the knowledge that today hasn't added to the sum of human misery. For now at least it's peace of a kind he hadn't imagined himself worthy of receiving.