Melody Beattie Quotes

Unending joy is actually closer to us than our own skin, and there is nothing we have to do or get or be to experience it. All we have to do is stop driving it away.

Lie down and listen to the crabgrass grow The faucet leak, and learn to leave them so.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is - no matter what form it takes - you are still, you are at peace.

We live in such a noisy world that we need to stop and just let things happen. Let it grow.

Without desire there is stillness, and the world settles by itself.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

You don't always have to be doing something. You can just be, and that's plenty.

Flow with whatever may happen and let your mind be free. Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

Find patience in the breath of life.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

I try to take each moment at a time.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

Don't seek, don't search, don't ask, don't knock, don't demand - relax. If you relax, it comes. If you relax, it is there. If you relax, you start vibrating with it.

Chill out, relax and have an open mind.

We try to abolish intervals by our manic insistence on keeping busy, on doing something. And as a result, all we succeed in doing is destroying all hope of tranquility. ... . You have to learn to immerse yourself in the silences between.

Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

Be content with doing calmly the little which depends upon yourself, and let all else be to you as if it were not.

The whole zen attitude is to bring to your notice the fact that there is no effort to be made. The zen attitude is that of effortlessness.

Empty your mind of all thoughts. Let your heart be at peace. Watch the turmoil of beings, but contemplate their return.