Elizabeth II Quotes

Follow effective action with quiet reflection.

Action and contemplation are very close companions; they live together in one house on equal terms. Martha and Mary are sisters.

Follow effective action with quiet reflection. From the quiet reflection will come even more effective action.

Contemplation and wisdom are highest achievements and man is not totally at home with them.

Mindfulness has helped me succeed in almost every dimension of my life. By stopping regularly to look inward and become aware of my mental state, I stay connected to the source of my actions and thoughts and can guide them with considerably more intention.

If you know how to worry, you know how to meditate. It means to think of something over and over.

Whether you call it meditation, self-reflection or just shutting everything out, I am quite good at that.

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.

Its never too late to take a moment to look.

Every man whose business it is to think knows that he must for part of the day create about himself a pool of silence.

Spend more time in daily reflection, contemplation and meditation. Had I done that at 20, things would have been very different in my life. But things really were as they needed to be, because I had to learn ... how important it was.

In the end, we need two things to lead a balanced life - a sense of the world and a sense of ourselves; it's like breathing in and breathing out. And if you can only get to know the world by stepping out, and losing yourself in experience, you can only get to know the self by stepping back, and finding yourself in contemplation. One without the other leads to a kind of madness.

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.

I like to be alone. I am focused on what I am doing. I feel the nature and I feel my body. It's so simple.

Reflection is a flower of the mind, giving out wholesome fragrance; but revelry is the same flower, when rank and running to seed.

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.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The best way to meditate is through meditation itself.

Even now when I am answering a question I am at the height of my own meditation.

I don't choose to analyze what I have done and I think that is the right choice, because then I won't be spending my time creating.

My goal is to get quieter as I get older.

Sometimes you need to press pause to let everything sink in.

I have always preferred the reflection of the life to life itself.

It is a challenge at times, but trying to stay centered and balanced helps me keep things in perspective.