Saul Bellow Quotes

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.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

The end of art is peace.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

But only art and music have the power to bring peace.

The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

If you can't find peace inside, you'll never be at peace.

Whatever may be the tensions and the stresses of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace.

Poetry is an act of peace.

Let peace and beauty reign.

I like a little chaos. I think that's really true for my inner Buddha. I think I like a little nutsy. Maybe I can't take total peace.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

If spacious stillness is missing, the relationship will be dominated by the mind and can easily be taken over by problems and conflict. If stillness is there, it can contain anything.

Peace is first of all the art of being.

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

Its all about finding the calm in the chaos.

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

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

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

I feel that art has something to do with the achievement of stillness in the midst of chaos. A stillness which characterizes prayer, too, and the eye of the storm. I think that art has something to do with an arrest of attention in the midst of distraction.

The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.

Choosing stillness in the midst of chaos is the path toward living in peace.

Still, there is a calm, pure harmony, and music inside of me.

Meditation is the key to open the door, the door of absolute contentment. Mind is always discontented., hence meditation means creating a state of no-mind. That space is always contented.