“Funny, how one good cookie could calm the mind and even elevate a troubled soul.”

Song lyrics, Lionheart (1978)

13 : The unity of calm and action
Ki Sayings (2003)

Source: False Memory

Source: Our Lady of Darkness (1977), Chapter 15 (p. 83)

As A Man Thinketh (1902), Serenity
Context: The calm man, having learned how to govern himself, knows how to adapt himself to others; and they, in turn, reverence his spiritual strength, and feel that they can learn of him and rely upon him. The more tranquil a man becomes, the greater is his success, his influence, his power for good.

First Mansions, Ch. 1, as translated by E. Allison Peers (1961) p. 18
Interior Castle (1577)
Context: It is no small pity, and should cause us no little shame, that, through our own fault, we do not understand ourselves, or know who we are. Would it not be a sign of great ignorance, my daughters, if a person were asked who he was, and could not say, and had no idea who his father or mother was, or from what country he came? Though that is a great stupidity, our own is incomparably greater if we make no attempt to discover what we are, and only know that we are living in these bodies and have a vague idea, because we have heard it, and because our faith tells us so, that we possess souls. As to what good qualities there may be in our souls, or who dwells within them, or how precious they are — those are things which seldom consider and so we trouble little about carefully preserving the soul's beauty. All our interest is centred in the rough setting of the diamond and in the outer wall of the castle – that is to say in these bodies of ours.

Of her difficult childhood; Chrissy Iley, The Observer, Sunday 7 October 2007 http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2007/oct/07/1

Happy to be Here (1983), p. 259
Source: Happy to Be Here

A Word in Season, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).