Quotes About Tranquility

She lay on her back, looking up at the sky, feeling no desire to move or think or know that there was any time beyond this moment.

Yoga allows you to find an inner peace that is not ruffled and riled by the endless stresses and struggles of life.

By drawing our senses of perception inward, we are able to experience the control, silence, and quietness of the mind.

As I chewed on the gooey popcorn, looking out at the lake, calm and turquoise now, I tried to recall a more contented moment

I think I could sit here all night looking out over this lake. It's so peaceful, like a church without walls.

She closed her fists, one around the other, and pressed her lips against them, willing the rage and the fear to pass; and when they passed, there was nothing left. It was as if the unvoiced scream had burned everything out of her and left only a well of dark and unnatural calm, a universe deep.

Anybody can get worked up, if they have the intention. It's peacefulness that is hard to come by on purpose.

everything else is in motion while God does not move at all. God sits still, perfectly at rest, the silver dollar at the bottom of the well, the question.

Let's go take a walk down to the blue hole. You need to look at some water.

I was struck with how full a silence could be: a Carolina wren sang from the eave of the shed; cedar waxwings carried on whispery bickerings up in the cherry; a mockingbird did an odd jerky dance, as if seized by the bird spirit, out on the driveway. The pea bowl rang like an insistent bell as we tossed in our peas.

After that I had a new brain-Lysol to calm myself down: walking in the woods with Emmy. I'd picture us holding hands, maybe with our own dog. Being grown-ups. It would be so much safer than being a kid.

They both went quiet, imagining a river of irises. Thatcher lay watching the sky through the leaves, white clouds skipping across small lenses of light. Here was a world, where he'd asked for nothing. He would escape with his life before the dust had settled on the collapse of his falling house.

I was exhausted but also for the first time in weeks I felt sleepiness, that rare, delicious liqueur, soaking into my body like blotter paper.

DA Langlais imparò che tra tutte le vite possibili, a una bisogna ancorarsi per poter contemplare, sereni, tutte le alte.

Religious institutions then become a kind of market for comfort, tranquility, spirituality, and ethical reflection, and we "religion consumers" shop in that market until we find what we like.

On a bare branch a crow is perched - autumn evening

Mountain-rose petals Falling, falling, falling now... Waterfall music

Sitting quietly, doing nothing, Spring comes, and the grass grows, by itself.

Winter solitude- in a world of one colour the sound of the wind.

Even in Kyoto/Hearing the cuckoo's cry/I long for Kyoto

May you have long days and pleasant nights.

Take your time. Get serene.

Someone inquired of a Hindu who had a great serenity and peace about him, no matter what pressures were put upon him, "How do you maintain that serenity and peace?" His answer: "I never leave my place of meditation." Every morning he meditated for thirty minutes. Then in his mind and heart he never left it—he maintained the spirit of that place all during his public life and pressures.

white, vaporous