Georges Braque Quotes

Boredom is the feeling that everything is a waste of time; serenity, that nothing is.

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

Be still and cool in thine own mind and spirit.

I'm really trying to be in the now - that's so spiritual and stuff. It's just so much more pleasant and sane.

To an experienced Zen Buddhist, asking if one believes in Zen or one believes in the Buddha, sounds a little ludicrous, like asking if one believes in air or water. Similarly Quality is not something you believe in, Quality is something you experience.

I believe this is Heaven to no one else but me.

Meditation is the soul's perspective glass, whereby, in her long remove, she discerneth God, as if He were nearer at hand.

Find joy and peace in this very moment.

What you believe you experience.

When we meditate, what we actually do is enter into a vacant, calm, still, silent mind. We go deep within and approach our true existence, which is our soul. When we live in the soul, we feel that we are actually meditating spontaneously

I never believe I'm presenting objective reality; I also don't want to delude people into thinking that my subject is talking directly to them.

Life isn't as serious as the mind makes it out to be.

Life, as we all know, is conflict, and man, being part of life, is himself an expression of conflict. If he recognizes the fact and accepts it, he is apt, despite the conflict, to know peace and to enjoy it. But to arrive at this end, which is only a beginning (for we haven’t begun to live yet!), a man has got to learn the doctrine of acceptance, that is, of unconditional surrender, which is love.

I ain't quiet.. everybody else is too loud.

There is no there---there is only here.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

You believe that you live in the world, where in fact the world lives within you.

What you’re believing in the moment creates your suffering or your happiness.

Wherever I am, the world comes after me. It offers me its busyness. It does not believe that I do not want it. Now I understand why the old poets of China went so far and high into the mountains, then crept into the pale mist.

When you experience peace of soul, with each breath you are present to the fact that this is a divine moment, a moment to shine like you have never shone before, a moment to hold the whole world in your hands with a gentle thought and a kind heart.

How do you spell peace? P-R-A-Y-E-R! Anything you believe you need is available to you through prayer. We are not talking here about a magic formula of proper and distinct words. Oh no! We are talking about opening your heart and your mouth, saying what's on your mind, knowing that once you do, the answer will be revealed.

Il n'y a pas d'autre univers qu'un univers humain, l'univers de la subjectivite humaine. There is no other universe except the human universe, the universe of human subjectivity.

We believe profoundly in silence-the sign of a perfect equilibrium. Silence is the absolute poise or balance of body, mind, and spirit.

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

Yes, this Purusha consciousness must be maintained; otherwise the calm will not last. The knocks and blows that come from outside cannot disturb one, if this Purusha consciousness remains at the back.