Quotes About Tranquility

The situation the Earth is in today has been created by unmindful production and unmindful consumption. We consume to forget our worries and our anxieties. Tranquilising ourselves with over-consumption is not the way.

The gym was my sanctuary. The place where you could forget about all your worries, your problems, people asking you for money, people asking you to do this, do that.

Once you're dead, your worries are over.

I love driving. It just makes me relaxed. All my worries go away.

My recollection of a hundred lovely lakes has given me blessed release from care and worry and the troubled thinking of our modern day. It has been a return to the primitive and the peaceful.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

Planning and worrying and chaos in your mind? Forget it. What's the point of that?

Those who worship God only, can get rid of anxiety of mind; others cannot.

The best thinking has been done in solitude. The worst has been done in turmoil.

I'm not a super nervous guy in general. I don't live a ton of my life in my head.

Tonight I'm going to shower and then just walk for about four hours and look at the moon.

In the eye of the tornado, there's no more high and low, no floor and sky.

At the close of the day when the hamlet is still, and mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove, when naught but the torrent is heard on the hill, and naught but the nightingale's song in the grove.

What I loved about Radio 3 back in the olden days, when it didn't give a toss about the youth, were the silences - socking great caesuras just left blank for quiet reflection.

Total physical and mental inertia are highly agreeable, much more so than we allow ourselves to imagine. A beach not only permits such inertia but enforces it, thus neatly eliminating all problems of guilt. It is now the only place in our overly active world that does.

For the first time, Ax saw that there could be strength in serenity, and steel beneath stillness.

We been through many slaughters, John Cole and me. But I am as peaceful and easy now as I ever been. Fear flies off and my box of thoughts feels light.

Possessing strength and stillness is a sign of balance: power and serenity combined in one moment. It's challenging enough to hold either one, let alone both, in perfect equipoise, but that is the goal if we want to be balanced.

Lighting some fine incense and then lying down alone to sleep. Looking into a Chinese mirror that's a little clouded.

Things That Give a Clean Feeling An earthen cup. A new metal bowl. A rush mat. The play of the light on water as one pours it into a vessel. A new wooden chest.

The mind is never right but when it is at peace within itself.

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward peace and harmony.

Peace in Mind will make life fine

And this our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.