Chris Evans Quotes

Meditation is like the breeze that comes in when you leave the window open; but if you deliberately keep it open, deliberately invite it to come, it will never appear.

Silence is helpful, but you don't need it in order to find stillness. Even when there is noise, you can be aware of the stillness underneath the noise, of the space in which the noise arises. That is the inner space of pure awareness, consciousness itself.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

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

Learning how to be still, to really be still and let life happen - that stillness becomes a radiance.

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

At some point in life the world's beauty becomes enough. You don't need to photograph, paint or even remember it. It is enough.

Give yourself a gift of five minutes of contemplation in awe of everything you see around you. Go outside and turn your attention to the many miracles around you. This five-minute-a-day regimen of appreciation and gratitude will help you to focus your life in awe.

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

I prefer to be in tune with my surroundings and to be aware of things. I like listening to my foot strike and my breathing. It can be quite soothing.

Meditation means to be free from all phenomena and calmness means to be internally unperturbed. There will be calmness when one is free from external objects and is not perturbed.

When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then anything may serve as a medium for realization.

I am breathing in and out. Realizing this, I began to notice that each moment was not without its beauty.

Real action is in silent moments.

Seek out a tree and let it teach you stillness.

Whenever you meditate, there are glimpses. Then the mind comes in and says, 'Be happy! Look, I have done it.' And immediately the contact is lost.

Why do you not do as I do? Letting go of your thoughts as though they were the cold ashes of a long dead fire?

I feel that I need to return to the pure stillness periodically. And then, when the teaching happens, just allow it to arise out of the stillness. So the teaching and stillness are very closely connected. The teaching arises out of the stillness. But when I'm alone, there's only the stillness, and that is my favorite place.

Meditation is a surrender, it is not a demand. It is not forcing existence your way, it is relaxing into the way existence wants you to be. It is a let-go.