Animal Quote by Laozi

“Empty yourself of everything,” he said. “Let your mind rest at peace. Ten thousand things rise and fall while the self watches. They grow…

— Jacqueline Carey

The ten thousand things flourish and then each returns to the root from which it came. Returning to the root is stillness. Through stillness…

— Laozi

Little by little, through patience and repeated effort, the mind will become stilled in the Self.

— Bhagavad Gita

When mind is quiet, all is Self. When mind moves the world arises. So be Still, throw away everything and be Free.

— H. W. L. Poonja

Returning to the source is stillness, which is the way of nature. The way of nature is unchanging. Knowing constancy is insight.

— Laozi

Leave the caves of being. Come. The mind breathes outside the mind. The time has come to abandon your lodgings. Surrender to the Universal…

— Antonin Artaud

“The source of stillness is in emptiness. All things and the changes they go through are but temporary conditions, which finally return to nothingness,…

— Chen Kaiguo

“The mind itself—the seemingly solid, stable mind—dissolves into a stream of cittas flashing in and out of being moment by moment, coming from nowhere…

— Bhikkhu Bodhi

“For once the mind is stirred into motion, it is a slave to that which is driving it. With some things, the beginnings are…

— Margaret R. Graver

There are ten thousand states of mind. The culmination of the states of mind you have gone through will create your next lifetime.

— Frederick Lenz

Let go of the thoughts, let go of the mind, let go of everything. Let go! Drop it! Drop everything. Hold onto nothing.

— Robert Adams

When the mind is kept away from its preoccupations, it becomes quiet. If you do not disturb this quiet and stay in it, you…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj