Quotes About Tranquility

Does an architecture to assuage the spirit have a place?

It was so much easier to be alone, if one could find just the right location.

Contentment... is the soul's enjoyment of that peace that passes all understanding.

I would wash the dust of the world in a soft green flood. Here between sea and sea in a fairy wood, I have found a delicate wave-green solitude.

Mental tranquility and physical health are coveted, not the approbation of the Lord.

Le cimetière se trouvait à six cents mètres de son extrémité, mais le bruit des avions ne dérangerait guère les défunts — pour ce que peuvent en savoir des vivants n'ayant encore aucune expérience personnelle de la question.

Le complacía la paz conseguida cada vez que cerraba la portezuela de un taxi. Era lo más parecido a una tregua con el mundo exterior: todo en suspenso, al otro lado de la ventanilla, durante el trayecto. Apoyó la cabeza en el respaldo, encantado con la perspectiva.

Eran hombres cuyo valor tranquilo procedía de mentes sencillas: resignados ante el azar, fatalistas sobre la vida y la muerte, obedecían de modo natural sin que la imaginación les jugara malas pasadas. Eran guerreros natos. Soldados perfectos.

En alta mar el aire era fresco, las heridas cicatrizaban antes, y el silencio se tornaba lo bastante intenso como para hacer soportables las preguntas sin respuesta y justificar los propios silencios.

I had closed my eyes and seen a place I hadn't known existed. There was no anger, no loneliness, no jagged icy fear gnawing at the wires of my body. For that one moment, the noise inside my head had turned still and silent. If hell was real and true and all around us, then heaven was too.

In solitude, the mind and body Are not troubled by distraction. Therefore leave this worldly life And totally abandon mental wandering.

Como la luna nueva, viviré en todas partes sin compañía.

But perhaps peace was not in a place but within one's self.

The behavioral trait most frequently associated with the long-lived is placidity.

The really nice breezes blow through my body and into my soul.†

At this age, I should be leading a quiet life.

Just simplify all that confusion and try to make life wonderfully simple again.

Yeah, let's keep the peace going.

If we want real happiness, the only way it can arise is by letting go of the one who is unhappy. It is not a question of trying to hold on to the one who is happy. Rather, when the unhappy one is relinquished, nothing else remains except the happiness of tranquility and pure awareness.

If we sit down with the idea, "Oh dear, another meditation session, I suppose I must stick it out," we will never be able to do it. There must be a feeling of strength and uplift in the mind. Meditation will enhance both, but we have to bring them with us in the first place.

Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

Within Tibetan Buddhism, shamatha practice maps on to the nine stages of attentional development wherein thoughts gradually subside as concentrative power is increased to the point at which one can effortlessly maintain single-pointed focus on a chosen object for at least four hours. The accomplishment of shamatha is accompanied by a powerful experience of bliss, luminosity, and stillness.

Slowly the fire died away; nobody spoke. They lay on their backs warming their toes and watching the trembling stars high above and the dark rustling crown of the black poplars etched against the velvet sky.