Sebastian Vettel Quotes

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.

Many of us have been running all our lives. Practice stopping.

Never be afraid to sit a while and think.

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

We must, like a painter, take time to stand back from our work, to be still, and thus see what's what. . . True repose is standing back to survey the activities that fill our days.

This benefit of seeing...can come only if you pause a while, extricate yourself from the maddening mob of quick impressions ceaselessly battering our lives, and look thoughtfully at a quiet image...the viewer must be willing to pause, to look again, to meditate.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

I don't really take a step back too often to see what's going on.

Sit with silence a lot - real silence, where nothing is happening - because you learn so much in those moments of quiet.

I don't think about my past or future.

Quiet time and solitude are vital to helping me keep perspective. I consider myself fortunate to have so much quiet built into my profession. I spend long hours by myself at my easel. And while I work, I think-of the future, of my loved ones, of God's goodness and the many exciting opportunities that surround me. I ponder the challenges I face, the needs of others, the direction my life is going.

Contemplation is wisdom's best nurse.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water - they mirror themselves in still water. Only what is still can still the stillness of other things.

We can make our minds so like still water that beings gather about us that they may see, it may be, their own images, and so live for a moment with a clearer, perhaps even with a fiercer life because of our quiet.

In a mind clear as still water, even the waves, breaking, are reflecting its light.

What would it be like if, right in the midst of this busyness, we were to consciously take our hands off the controls? What if we were to intentionally stop our mental computations and our rushing around and, for a minute or two, simply pause and notice our inner experience?

In these silences something may rise

We all need to get the balance right between action and reflection. With so many distractions, it is easy to forget to pause and take stock.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

If, then, I were asked for the most important advice I could give, that which I considered to be the most useful to the men of our century, I should simply say: in the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you.

Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

Narrow your life down to this moment. Your life situation may be full of problems - most life situations are - but find out if you have a problem at this moment. Do you have a problem now?

Like water which can clearly mirror the sky and the trees only so long as its surface is undisturbed, the mind can only reflect the true image of the Self when it is tranquil and wholly relaxed.