William Butler Yeats Quotes

When you don't know what to do, do nothing. Get quiet so you can hear the still, small voice.

The only way to cultivate a quiet mind is by planting seeds of silence.

The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

If water derives lucidity from stillness, how much more the faculties of the mind! The mind of the sage, being in repose, becomes the mirror of the universe, the speculum of all creation.

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 aspire only to silence.

You'll never find peace of mind until you listen to your heart.

I've found throughout the years that I needed a place where I can go with no TV, no computer, no phone and just have no distractions and just be able to sit and think and just not be disturbed.

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

I firmly believe that if we all just took a little time - like 10 or 15 minutes a day - to do nothing but sit calmly with our thoughts, this world would be a much better place.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

Not only a truer knowledge, but a greater power comes to one in the quietude and silence of a mind that, instead of bubbling on the surface, can go to its own depths and listen.

Only let the moving waters calm down, and the sun and moon will be reflected on the surface of your being.

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

When you stop searching and you calm down and you put your books away, and you confront yourself and see what you are all about, that will bring about bliss faster than anything you can ever imagine or ever do.

The heart beats louder and the soul hears quicker in silence and solitude.

Meditation, witnessing, silently sitting and looking at the mind, will be of much help. Not forcing, simply sitting and looking. Not doing much, just watching as one watches birds flying in the sky. Just Lying down on the ground and watching, nothing to do, indifferent. Not your concern really, where they are going; they are going on their own.

You see more sitting still than chasing after.

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

I don't meditate. Silence is golden though.

Remember: if you can cease all restless activity, your integral nature will appear.

Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don't have to go anywhere to obtain the truth. We only need to be still and things will reveal themselves in the still water of our heart.

If there were a little more silence, if we all kept quiet...maybe we could understand something.

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