Anne Lamott Quotes

You can look only when the mind is completely quiet.

I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

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

Thought will not work except in silence.

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

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

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.

I listen to music a lot, if I need to get into a particular space. I do stretching and breathing, and take time to mostly be quiet and find the stillness. I think that's important.

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

It is important from time to time to slow down, to go away by yourself, and simply be.

When I feel lost and can't make a decision, I just stop and get quiet. I take a time-out.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

I love silence.

I'm also good at meditation. It involves doing nothing and everything at the same time.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

A quiet mind cureth all.

Meditating has taught me to sit with my thoughts, my feelings, and just observe them.

I try to meditate.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

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.

Zen taught me how to pay attention, how to delve, how to question and enter, how to stay with -- or at least want to try to stay with -- whatever is going on.

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

Sitting in stillness has got to be the greatest asset I have in terms of attaining happiness.

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.