Henry David Thoreau Quotes

The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.

The biggest thing as I have gotten older is the calmness that's come over me.

I'm kind of all over the place, and I need grounding.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Now I meditate twice a day for half an hour. In meditation, I can let go of everything. I'm not Hugh Jackman. I'm not a dad. I'm not a husband. I'm just dipping into that powerful source that creates everything. I take a little bath in it.

I'm not a super nervous guy in general. I don't live a ton of my life in my head.

If I win, it's a bonus. If I lose, the sun still comes up the next day, and it's all good.

The most certain sign of wisdom is a continual cheerfulness; her state is like that of things in the regions above the moon, always clear and serene.

The true purpose of Zen is to see things as they are, to observe things as they are, and to let everything go as it goes. Zen practice is to open up our small mind.

Do thou smile like the rose at loss and gain; For the rose, though its petals be torn asunder, Still smiles on, and it is never cast down.

If I could tell the world just one thing, it would be that we are all ok. And not to worry because worry is wasteful and useless in times like these.

How had I managed to tie my boots? I didn’t even remember getting dressed. I was out here in public at the mall. What was I wearing? Jeans. I could feel socks. I had my boots on. I plucked at the edge of my t-shirt and saw it was red. I was wearing Dad’s spare Army jacket, and there was a heavy weight in the right pocket that had to be something deadly.

It's not something that I can put on and take off anymore, like I said, I've had my years of confusion and wondering who I really (was) and why and how do I live my life and make sense of it all, but I'm not confused about that any longer. I think the world might be -- but I'm not.

He is rich who owns the day, and no one owns the day who allows it to be invaded with fret and anxiety.

In the process of letting go you will lose many things from the past, but you will find yourself.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

His conviction that everything happened for a reason, and would come to good, gave him laughing equanimity even in hard times.

A man becomes calm in the measure that he understands himself as a thought-evolved being. For such knowledge necessitates the understanding of others as the result of thought, and as he develops a right understanding, and sees ever more clearly the internal relations of things by the action of cause and effect, he ceases to fuss, fume, worry, and grieve. He remains poised, steadfast, serene.

Perhaps to lose a sense of where you are implies the danger of losing a sense of who you are.

Once you know who you are, you don't have to worry anymore.

After a while, you have to be at peace with the fact that you simple are

I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.

Her stillness was such a contrast to all the jumbled communication inside me that I suddenly felt what a tiresome fellow I was, always filling the air with the rattle of words and anxieties.

If you can become a mirror you have become a meditator. Meditation is nothing but skill in mirroring. And now, no word moves inside you so there is no distraction.