Chin-Ning Chu Quotes

When our mind is calm, we’re better able to find peace of mind and live a joyful life.

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

A quiet mind is more important than a positive mind.

Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

I meditate so I know how to find a peaceful place within to be calm and peaceful.

I feel like I play better when I'm calm. There is an inner peace I can tap into sometimes during my matches.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.

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

I had a pleasant time with my mind, for it was happy.

The best thing we can bring to any fight is a calm and compassionate mind.

Meditation is warm-up exercise for the mind, so that you can jog through the rest of the day without getting agitated or spraining your patience.

To be able to create you have to have peace of mind on some level.

I am learning slowly to bring my crazy pinball-machine mind back to this place.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

Only when you are relaxed can you see what's going on.

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

This inner peace of mind occurs on three levels of understanding. Physical quietness seems the easiest to achieve, although there are levels and levels of this too, as attested by the ability of Hindu mystics to live buried alive for many days. Mental quietness, in which one has no wandering thoughts at all, seems more difficult, but can be achieved. But value quietness, in which one has no wandering desires at all but simply performs the acts of his life without desire, that seems the hardest.

Tranqility is a certain quality of mind, which no condition or fortune can either exalt or depress.

When there is no mind, you are in yoga; when there is mind you are not in yoga. So you may do all the postures, but if the mind goes on functioning, if you go on thinking, you are not in yoga.

The more we control our mind, the more our inner peace increases and the happier we become

The life of action need not be renounced. If you meditate for an hour or two every day you can then carry on with your duties. If you meditate in the right manner then the current of mind induced will continue to flow even in the midst of your work.

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

I tried to hold on to this compassion, sensing its preciousness, but even as I reached to grasp it, it dissipated into wisps. No revelation can endure unless it is bolstered by a calm pure mind- and I'm afraid I didn't possess that.

"Serenity" is the flavor of meditation.

And one of the powers of mindfulness is the ability to get to that frame of mind on demand.