“True enough, the country is calm. Calm as a morgue or a grave, would you not say?”
Václav Havel (1936–2011) playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and 1st President of the Czech Republic
Letter to Husák
“Calmness of mind does not mean you should stop your activity. Real calmness should be found in activity itself. We say, "It is easy to have calmness in inactivity, it is hard to have calmness in activity, but calmness in activity is true calmness.”
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
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