I've learned the idea of pausing when agitated or doubtful. I can still write the e-mail but instead of sending that e-mail to the person I'm in a fight with, more often than not these days, I just delete it. Or I run it by someone else that I trust before I send it. And then I usually laugh at the e-mail and how funny it is.
The mind is like dishwater, my friend. When it is agitated, it becomes difficult to see. But if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.
I think that you have to let yourself be agitated and annoyed and not be fully comfortable.
Every object is beautiful in motion; a ship under sail, trees gently agitated with the wind, and a fine woman dancing, are three instances in point
Over there, in Europe, all was shame and anger. Here it was exile or solitude, among these languid and agitated madmen who danced in order to die.
I'm just permanently agitated by everything and everyone.
Remember that poise and power are inseparably associated. The calm and balanced mind is the strong and great mind; the hurried and agitated mind is the weak one.
If there is peace in your mind you will find peace with everybody. If your mind is agitated you will find agitation everywhere. So first find peace within and you will see this inner peace reflected everywhere else. You are this peace!
Theatre supposes lives that are poor and agitated, a people searching in dreams for a refuge from thought. If we were happier and freer we should not feel hungry for theatre. . . . A people that is happy and free has need of festivities more than of theatres; it will always see in itself the finest spectacle.
Minds that are ill at ease are agitated by both hope and fear.
The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.
If the mind is not contrived, it is spontaneously blissful, just as water, when not agitated, is by nature transparent and clear.
It shows a brave and resolute spirit not to be agitated in exciting circumstances.
Anxiety is our agitated soul scrambling for control.
The longer I live, the more I am convinced that the apothecary is of more importance than Seneca; and that half the unhappiness in the world proceeds from little stoppages; from a duct choked up, from food pressing in the wrong place, from a vexed duodenum, or an agitated pylorus.
Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.
Republics exist only on tenure of being agitated.
I could not help it: the restlessness was in my nature; it agitated me to pain sometimes.
I hate when people say, "Oh, you're just a teenager," or "It's hormonal. " It's like, if a woman is agitated one day, people go, "Oh, she's on her period. " That's such garbage. I think I was dealing with a combination of my own inner demons and resentment toward my parents from my earlier days.
Air, I should explain, becomes wind when it is agitated.
