“Like the calm still surface water that reflects the moon and a flying bird, true living calmness is the condition of our mind that reflects all things clearly. This is our original and natural state. By understanding these principles, we can acquire true living calmness.”
7: Living calmness
Ki Sayings (2003)
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Shunryu Suzuki (1904–1971) Japanese Buddhist missionary
Source: Zen Mind, Beginner's Mind: Informal Talks on Zen Meditation and Practice
Zabel Yesayan (1878–1943) Armenian writer
As quoted at the Women's Museum Istanbul http://istanbulkadinmuzesi.org/en/zabel-yesayan/?tur=Alfabetik
“The reflected world is the conquest of calm”
Gaston Bachelard book L'Eau et les Rêves
"Clear Waters, Springtime Waters"
L'eau et les rêves (Water and Dreams) 1942
“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
Jane Austen book Persuasion
Variant: But I hate to hear you talking so like a fine gentleman, and as if women were all fine ladies, instead of rational creatures. We none of us expect to be in smooth water all our days.
Source: Persuasion
“Calm —indeed the calmest— reflection might be better than the most confused decisions”
Franz Kafka book The Metamorphosis
Source: The Metamorphosis