Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking of them.
Once you get comfortable playing hard, a lot of things just go your way. You just relax more, and you feel like you can do a lot of things.
I go into a gallery or museum, and I realize that I don't have to formulate any opinions if I don't want to. I don't have to think this thing through and write about it at any great length. I can think about it if I want to; if not, I can just walk out. So I can enjoy painting really a lot more than I could when I had that sort of pressure.
When you're more comfortable out there, you start seeing different things, relaxing more, being able to trust your pitches more and not try to overdo things as much.
When I'm in my groove there is no thinking. Everything just happens.
I go to the river from time to time to ponder over the crazy days in my life. Watch the river flow, ease my mind and soul where I go.
I have discovered the secret formula for a carefree old age: iycri = fi (if you can't recall it, forget it).
Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)
Fluency avoids hard thoughts.
Cultivating a close, warmhearted feeling for others automatically puts the mind at ease. It helps remove whatever fears or insecurities we may have and gives us the strength to cope with any obstacles we encounter.
When you're able to love and appreciate and take pride with yourself, that makes everything easier. It makes it easier to train, it makes it easier to be in the gym, and it makes it easier for everyone else to accept and love you.
When ill luck besets us, to ease the tension we have only to remember that happiness is relative. The next time you are tempted to grumble about what has happened to you, why not pause and be glad that it is no worse than it is.
No, I don't believe in hard work. If something is hard, leave it. Let it come to you. Let it happen.
The first time you quit, it's hard. The second time, it gets easier. The third time, you don't even have to think about it.
When we practice paying attention, whether in meditation, yoga (moving mediation), or simply walking down the street, we can choose to be at ease, or choose to be tense. It's a choice, and that choice is up to no one but us to decide.
Hee that workes after his owne manner, his head akes not at the matter.
There is a case, and a strong case, for that particular form of indolence that allows us to move through life knowing only what immediately concerns us.
Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.
For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
When we have disorderly lives, it makes it difficult for our minds to be orderly and for us to be at ease with disorder.
What wonders does not wine! It discloses secrets; ratifies and confirms our hopes; thrusts the coward forth to battle; eases the anxious mind of its burden; instructs in arts. Whom has not a cheerful glass made eloquent! Whom not quite free and easy from pinching poverty!
There was nothin to set a man's mind at ease like wakin up in the morning and not havin to decide who you were.
Baseball is so hard as it is. For me, if you simplify it, it takes a little bit of the weight off, rather than trying to figure out all these other things. It's just peace of mind.
I think you can learn to have much more pleasant thoughts moving through your mind that will help ease any situation, and it takes making a conscious choice to do so.
Mental effort, I would argue, is relatively rare. Most of the time we coast.
