Quotes About Tranquility

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

we all must admit that everything is fine and there's no need in the world to worry, and in fact we should realize what it would mean to us to UNDERSTAND that we're not REALLY worried about ANYTHING.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind. Now that we know this, throw the raft away.

I came to a point where I needed solitude and just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living', I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds.

I want to marry a [guy], so i can rest my soul with [him] till we both get old. This can't go on all the time-- all this franticness and jumping around. We've got to go someplace, find something.

After all this kind of fanfare, and even more, I came to a point where I needed solitude and to just stop the machine of 'thinking' and 'enjoying' what they call 'living,' I just wanted to lie in the grass and look at the clouds...

So easy in the woods to daydream and pray to the local spirits and say "Allow me to stay here, I only want peace" and those foggy peaks answer back mutely Yes

and silence is the golden mountain

Everything is all right forever and forever and forever.

One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long time without biting and then went away.

and rain will fall on our eaves.

Let us sleep by rivers and purify our ears.

Roaring dreams take place in a perfectly silent mind.

We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).

He] seemed at home and content now they were sailing, as though leaving the port meant the cessation of all his worries, and heading out to sea a new era of peace and amenity.

the sudden vast diamond silence of the forest

nothing could disturb this wise calm, this sanity of soul

The vast diamond silence of the forest

There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.

I thoroughly enjoy a good hot bath. That is my ultimate luxury.

On some days, I just want to sit under a shooting umbrella in a sunny outdoor location all over again.

I have discovered that all human evil comes from this, man's being unable to sit still in a room.

Peace and not war is the father of all things.

The war is in our souls.