Isaac Watts Quotes

When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.

Whenever your mind is totally absorbed in whatever activities you are performing, your mind will remain calm and content.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.

Imagine a hot tub for the mind. That is what meditation is; it can bathe your mind in relaxing thoughts.

The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

Usually when I draw, I try to be in a contemplative mood. I try to keep my mind as empty, vacant and tranquil as possible. The outer mind is like the surface of the sea. On the surface, the sea is full of waves and surges; it is all restlessness. But when we dive deep below, the same sea is all peace, calmness and quiet, and there we find the source of creativity.

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

The greater the level of calmness of our mind, the greater our peace of mind, the greater our ability to enjoy a happy and joyful life.

A calm mind is good for our physical health, but it also enables us to see things more realistically.

It would be of great use to us to form our deliberate judgments of persons and things in the calmest and serenest hours of life, when the passions of nature are all silent, and the mind enjoys its most perfect composure.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.

A peaceful mind generates power.

I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that.

The more your mind is restful, the more you're capable of dynamic activity.

When the mind is un-agitated, when the mind is calm, that mind is most conducive to creative problem solving.

The essential thing is to work in a state of mind that approaches prayer.

When the mind is left without anything to cling to, it becomes still.

The thinking mind can be so noisy that it cannot relate to stillness. It doesn't even recognize it and certainly can't remember it.

Nothing outside yourself can cause any trouble. You yourself make the waves in your mind. If you leave your mind as it is, it will become calm. This mind is called big mind.

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

How do you meditate? You meditate with an inner cry. There should be an inner cry here, in the heart. The outer cry is ego-centred; it wants name and fame. ... While you are feeling this inner cry, you try to make the mind absolutely calm and quiet. If a thought enters your mind, you try to reject it. Consider this thought as a fly. When a fly comes to land on your arm, you don't allow the fly to remain; you just wave your hand and it goes away.

There is art in taking time to appreciate the clean wash of the mind's silence.