Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness. When mind is still, then truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

A quiet mind cureth all.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

Whenever in doubt, turn off your mind, relax, float downstream.

But let me have silence always, in the centre of the shouting—that is essential! Let me have silence so that no pin may drop and not be heard, and not a whisper escape us for all our spouting, nor the needle's scratching upon this gramophone of a circular cosmic spot. Hear me! Mark me! Learn me! Throw the mind's ear open—shut up the mind's eye—all will be music!

If your mind is still, you're the happiest.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

Of course, you can’t force your mind to be silent. That would be like trying to smooth ripples in water with a flatiron. Water becomes clear and calm only when left alone.

I often paint tranquility. If you stop thinking and rest, then a little happiness comes into your mind. At perfect rest you are comfortable.

Meditation is the calm in the chaos, the fastest way to settle down and get in touch with the stillness within.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.

If your mind is still... You can sense the peace that emanates from the earth.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go

Allow your head to be quiet. Allow it to be still. Just for an hour and half. Just deal with your body & your breath.

Bring your mind to noble silence. Unify your mind in noble silence. Concentrate your mind in noble silence... Enter into rapture and pleasure born of silence derived of concentration and awareness that is free from thought and fabrication.

For my mind, I try to reduce stress by finding quiet time and meditating.

When the turbulence of distracting thoughts subside and our mind becomes still, a deep happiness and contentment naturally arises from within.

Clear mind is like the full moon in the sky. Sometimes clouds come and cover it, but the moon is always behind them. Clouds go away, then the moon shines brightly. So don't worry about clear mind: it is always there. When thinking comes, behind it is clear mind. When thinking goes, there is only clear mind. Thinking comes and goes, comes and goes, You must not be attached to the coming or the going.

It is only in a very quiet mind that great things are born; and a quiet mind does not come about through effort, through control, through discipline.

One can not reflect in streaming water. Only those who know internal peace can give it to others.