Quotes About Tranquility

The peace produced by grace is a spiritual stability too deep for violence — it is unshakeable

Would that death were like this. Would that one would sleep and sleep and sleep forever.

It is no little wisdom for you to keep yourself in silence and in good peace when evil words are spoken to you, and to turn your heart to God and not to be troubled with the judgment of others.

Celestial wisdom calms the mind.

There are no crowds in the shores of wisdom!

Re-energize your soul... Walk with Mother nature.

Even as the lion, not trembling at noises; even as the wind, not caught in a net; even as the lotus-leaf, untouched by the water — so do thou wander alone like the rhinoceros!

even so the sage can draw all his sense-organs inside," (Ibid. 58.) and nothing can force them out.

The bottom of a lake we cannot see, because its surface is covered with ripples. It is only possible for us to catch a glimpse of the bottom, when the ripples have subsided, and the water is calm.

Breathing, posturing, etc. are no doubt helps in Yoga; but they are merely physical. The great preparations are mental. The first thing necessary is a quiet and peaceable life.

Do not spend your energy in talking, but meditate in silence; and do not let the rush of the outside world disturb you. When your mind is in the highest state, you are unconscious of it.

reverie. To share such a moment of deep tranquility with another being, especially one as different from us as the octopus, is a humbling privilege.

In the country I always fear that creation will expire before tea-time.

Fear doesn't frighten me as much as it used to. I know it's from clinging, and I know it will pass [p. 29].

They had an assured income, nothing could disturb their calm.

But the overruling disconcertingness was to find himself unconcerned. It was as if some mysterious oil had been introduced into the workings of his mind. If a thought irked him, he thought of something else. If a project miscarried, a flooding serenity swept him beyond it. He lived a tranquil truant, dissociated from himself as though by a slight agreeable fever.

Of all menaces to peace and quiet a visionary nun is the worst

Stand on the highest pavement of the stair—Lean on a garden urn—Weave, weave the sunlight in your hair.

Let go whatever burdens your soul and questions your peace of mind

I built my hut in a zone of human habitation,Yet near me there sounds no noise of horse or coach. Would you know how that is possible?A heart that is distant creates a wilderness around it.

When they are not at war they do a little hunting, but spend most of their time in idleness, sleeping and eating. The strongest and most warlike do nothing. They vegetate, while the care of hearth and home and fields is left to the women, the old and the weak. Strange inconsistency of temperament, which makes the same men lovers of sloth and haters of tranquility.

They make a wilderness and call it peace.

I understand the voice of your stars and the silence of your trees.

En verdes pastos me hará descansar; junto a tranquilas aguas me conducirá. Confortará mi alma; me guiará por sendas de justicia por amor a Su nombre.