I studied meditation, knowing it would be a huge new…

I continued to suffer from anxiety and obsessive thoughts, although the thoughts stopped centering on hell. I moved into an ashram called the Himalayan…

— Maggie Rowe

The way we gain wisdom in meditation is not by explanation. If you go into the planes of light, you will come out of…

— Frederick Lenz

Some people are drawn to meditation without knowing why. Their inner being realizes that they've totally fouled up their life so far, and now…

— Frederick Lenz

The mental suffering you create is always some form of non-acceptance, some form of unconscious resistance to what is. On the level of thought,…

— Eckhart Tolle

You can handle anything if you think you can. Just keep your cool and your sense of humor.

— Smiley Blanton

Meditation is not passive sitting in silence. It is sitting in awareness, free from distraction, and realizing the clear understanding that arises from concentration.

— Nhat Hanh

In the midst of the storm, your life boat appears. A psalm, a hymn, a word... calming the fiercest winds of the soul.

— Anonymous

Meditation is like light: when meditation comes, politics disappears. So you cannot be meditative and political. That is impossible: you are asking for the…

— Rajneesh

“I sometimes forget how calming the ocean can be,”

— JoAnn Bassett

Being a perfectionist, I didn't want to settle for just getting by, so I enrolled in a vocal training program. I then learned that…

— Alyson Stoner

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it…

— Edward Said

“Quiet descended on her, calm, content, as her needle, drawing the silk smoothly to its gentle pause, collected the green folds together and attached…

— Virginia Woolf

'Landfill' by Daughter has calming, rich tones that are only improved upon by the gorgeous voice of Daughter.

— Ben Lovett

There's nothing more calming in difficult moments that knowing there's some one fighting with you.

— Mother Teresa

I commend Sri Chinmoy for his faith and serenity, and I hope he will continue to exert his calming and constructive influence on the…

— Brian Mulroney