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It is not necessary for being with God to be always at church. We may make an oratory of our heart wherein to retire from time to time to converse with Him in meekness, humility, and love.
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
Harmony in the world within means the ability to control our thoughts, to determine for ourselves how any experience is to affect us.
Charles F. Haanel, The Master Key System
First keep thyself in peace, and then shalt thou be able to be a peacemaker towards others.
Thomas à Kempis, The Imitation of Christ
Do not bother as to whether yesterday's work was well done or ill done; do to-day's work well.
Wallace D. Wattles, The Science of Getting Rich
Realize deeply that the present moment is all you ever have. Make the Now the primary focus of your life.
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Do not go to the garden of flowers! O Friend! go not there; In your body is the garden of flowers. Take your seat on the thousand petals of the lotus, and there gaze on the Infinite Beauty.
Kabir, Songs of Kabir
Have patience, Candidate, as one who fears no failure, courts no success.
H. P. Blavatsky, The Voice of the Silence
By believing oneself to be the master of one’s thoughts one becomes so.
Émile Coué, Self Mastery Through Conscious Autosuggestion
Ah, seek the treasure of a mind at rest And store it in the treasury of Ease; Not worth a loyal heart, a tranquil breast, Were all the riches of thy lands and seas!
Hafiz, Poems from the Divan of Hafiz
If a man thinks truth, a lie cannot make a lodgment in his mind; if he thinks love, hate cannot disturb him; if he thinks wisdom, ignorance cannot paralyse him.
Annie Besant, Thought Power: Its Control and Culture
Seek not that the things which happen should happen as you wish; but wish the things which happen to be as they are, and you will have a tranquil flow of life.
Epictetus, Enchiridion
…in the noise and clatter of my kitchen, while several persons are at the same time calling for different things, I possess God in as great tranquillity as if I were upon my knees at the blessed sacrament.
Brother Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God the Best Rule of a Holy Life
The only way to make sense out of change is to plunge into it, move with it, and join the dance.
Alan Watts, The Wisdom of Insecurity
All that we are is the result of what we have thought: it is founded on our thoughts, it is made up of our thoughts. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.
The Buddha, The Dhammapada
There must be a balance,—the balance of the head and the heart, the balance of power and wisdom, the balance of activity and repose.
Hazrat Inayat Khan, The Inner Life
Always say "yes" to the present moment.
Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now
Be here now.
Ram Dass, Be Here Now
…the perfect man employs his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing: it refuses nothing. It receives, but does not keep.
Zhuangzi, Chuang Tzŭ: Mystic, Moralist, and Social Reformer
Below there may be storm, but above there is calm, and there is the Place of Peace.
Annie Besant, The Spiritual Life
Let nothing disturb thee, Nothing affright thee; All things are passing; God never changeth; Patient endurance Attaineth to all things; Who God possesseth In nothing is wanting; Alone God sufficeth.
Teresa of Ávila, The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.
James Allen, As a Man Thinketh
Such as are thy habitual thoughts, such also will be the character of thy mind; for the soul is dyed by the thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius, Meditations
A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always…
Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Keep your heart in peace; let nothing in this world disturb it: all things have an end.
John of the Cross, The Complete Works of Saint John of the Cross, Vol. II