Paul Hindemith Quotes

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

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

Movement is only as good as the sense of stillness that you can bring to it to put it into perspective.

I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being.

If you can get absolutely still for just one moment, you have reached the goal.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

I used to think anxiety and insomnia drove me to success, but it was the stillness that let me be good at anything. When you extend the seconds of stillness, that's when you're able to think and learn.

In the madness, you have to find calm.

I do a lot of yoga and meditation. It calms my nerves and helps me channelise my energy.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

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

Silence is refreshment for the soul.

When everything is moving and shifting, the only way to counteract chaos is stillness. When things feel extraordinary, strive for ordinary. When the surface is wavy, dive deeper for quieter waters.

Stillness as a technique is still really captivating to me.

In the midst of movement and chaos, keep stillness inside of you.

I am calm most of the time.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.

I try to meditate.

Meditation is about breathing, it's about clarity, taking your time and not rushing through your thinking.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

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.

Wherever you go in the midst of movement and activity, carry your stillness with you. Then the chaotic movement around you will never overshadow your access to the reservoir of creativity, the field of pure potentiality.

It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.

Nothing makes me feel better - calmer, clearer and happier - than being in one place, absorbed in a book, a conversation, a piece of music. It's actually something deeper than mere happiness: it's joy, which the monk David Steindl-Rast describes as 'that kind of happiness that doesn't depend on what happens.