Patrick McGoohan Quotes

Meditation really helps create not only a sense of balance... but serenity and kind of a calm state of mind.

A primary method for gaining a mind of full peace is to practice emptying the mind.

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

When the mind is still, we can become an instrument of peace.

For this game you need, above all things, to be in a tranquil frame of mind.

To the quiet mind all things are possible.

Peace is your natural state. It is the mind that obstructs the natural state.

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

Abjure all accretions and turn off the lights. Put on some music - Leonard Cohen, say, perhaps his 'Various Positions' - and let your mind cool down. Soon you'll forget there's a word called 'stress.'

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

A quiet mind cureth all.

I'm more relaxed and just feel like there's kind of a peace with myself.

I am permanently relaxed.

I want peace in my life.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

If you have peace of mind, when you meet with problems and difficulties they won’t disturb your inner peace. You’ll be able to employ your human intelligence more effectively. But, if your mental state is disturbed, full of emotion, it is very difficult to cope with problems, because the mind that is full of emotion is biased, unable to see reality. So whatever you do will be unrealistic and naturally fail.

Imagine a temple inside your mind, a haven from the chaos of the world. Visit often.

When the mind is calm, how quickly, how smoothly, how beautifully you will perceive everything.

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

True peace is a quality you carry within yourself, regardless of external circumstances.

Being with him made my brain quiet. I didn't have to invent a thing.

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

And you try to quiet your mind so you can hear.

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

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind.