Proverbs — English

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Inner peace

1999

Reclaiming large areas of peace in ourselves

Ultimately, we have just one moral duty: to reclaim large areas of peace in ourselves, more and more peace, and to reflect it toward others. And the more peace there is in us, the more peace there will also be in our troubled world.”

Mindfulness

Mindfulness is paying attention with intention, non-judgement and acceptance to what is happening in the present moment. (...) Mindfulness is attention training". (1)

 

Mindfulness is being able to separate the thoughts in your head from real life and (from) what's actually happening right now." (2)

 

(1) Randye Semple, Professor, Clinical psychogy, Keck Unviersity.
(2) Vanessa Vacharia, owner of Math Guru, that helps students overcome anxiety through mindfulness.

Source: Quoted in "How Teens Can Fight Math Anxiety", Terri Coles, Bright Magazine, 21.4.2017

What lies within us

What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters compared to what lies within us.

1990

Equation of Peace

A scientist might one day be able to explain joy and peace of mind with mathematical formulas, if he searches deep enough within the atom.

Bernard Moitessier (1925-1994), French sailor, excerpt from "The Long Way"