E. M. Forster Quotes

There are times I am happy. There are times I am sad. But I always try to separate emotion from the need to reach for something stronger, deeper. And then no matter the emotion, I can reach for a stability that helps me accomplish what is the goal.

I pray to be like the ocean, with soft currents, maybe waves at times. More and more, I want the consistency rather than the highs and the lows.

The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

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

I've been blissfully ignorant about the result of my films and don't get swayed by success or failure.

I'm very sentimental and ambitious. I like to be relaxed and I like to live a peaceful existence, but that's very difficult considering I'm very neurotic. On the inside, I'm very chilled - but on the outside I'm a big mess of worry!

There is not secret to balance. You just have to feel the waves.

I'm not suffering from withdrawal symptoms. I would say that I have a balanced state of mind.

I was creative before I started meditating, but I had, looking back, a weakness. I wasn't self-assured. I had a little bit of melancholy. I had a lot of anger for my situations in life, and I would take this out on my first wife.

I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.

Most of the world is like a mental hospital. Some persons are sick with jealousy, others with anger, hatred, passion. They are victims of their habits and emotions. But you can make your home a place of peace.

Balance. It was all about balance. That had been one of the first things that she had learned: the centre of the seesaw has neither up nor down, but upness and downness flow through it while it remains unmoved. You had to be the centre of the seesaw so the pain flowed through you, not into you. It was very hard. But she could do it!

And love makes one calmer about many things, and in that way, one is more fit for one's work.

I've never gotten too high or too low. It only messes you up.

There is this view that if you are not tormented you cannot be vital and creative. I would like to think that is not true.

A lot of the teachings really kind of keep me grounded.

How difficult it is to reach anything approaching a moderate and relatively calm point of view in the midst of one's emotions.

Spiritual health is no more stable than bodily; and though we may seem unaffected by the passions we are just as liable to be carried away by them as to fall ill when in good health.

When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

When I find my focus and keep my balance- I find that all is right with my world.

The stability we cannot find in the world, we must create within our own persons.

One must somehow find a way of loving the world without trusting it; somehow one must love the world without being worldly.

t was almost disappointing because it seemed when stress and madness were eliminated from my daily life there wasn't much left you could depend on.

The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.

If you cannot get along with yourself, you'll never be able to get along with other people.