Quotes About Tranquility

Free the mind from all disturbing thoughts and fill it with love and joy.

Meditation utilises concentration in its highest form. Concentration

Paramahansa Yogananda

Peace (shanti) is a divine quality. A true yogi, one united to the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, is like a lovely rose, spreading around him the fragrance of tranquility and harmony.

Mi maestro siempre me pedía que meditara dondequiera que viese una extensión de agua. Aquí, su placidez nos recuerda la inmensa serenidad de Dios. Así como todas las cosas pueden reflejarse en el agua, así todo el universo se refleja en el lago de la Mente Cósmica

The sole cause of man's unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.

The sky darkened, the air grew colder, but he didn't mind. It didn't occur to him to move. This was the right place. This was where he had wanted to be.

In twenty feet of water, . . . the four of us watched the moonlight play on the surface of the water. It enclosed us in its laceries as we watched the moon spill across the Atlantic like wine from an overturned glass.

On its own, my spirit seemed to relax, like a folding chair let out by a pool.

I was afforded a glimpse of the marsh at ease, a glimpse of the land at rest from the penetration and mindless barbarisms of man.

Few things rivet me like the beauty of moving water.

She was a sweet, warm wind in my heart, a resting place, a place of peace where I could forget so many things . . .

He had, she realized slowly, a gift for silence. When he chose, it seemed to ebb out of him, the word silence of old trees or stones lying motionless for years. It was measured to his breathing, in his motionless, scarred hands. He moved abruptly, soundlessly, and it flowed with him as he turned...

We seek retreats for ourselves, houses in the country, seashores, mountains. But . . . we have in our power to retire into ourselves. For there is no retreat that is quieter and freer from trouble than our soul . . . perfect tranquility, the right ordering of mind. —Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

what is the foundation of contemplative life? 'Oh, she said, without a pause -- leisure, it's based on leisure.

I find it wholesome to be alone the greater part of the time. To be in company, even with the best, is soon wearisome and dissipating. I love to be alone. I never found the companion that was so companionable as solitude. — HENRY DAVID THOREAU AMERICAN NATURALIST

If you wish to grow in your spiritual life, you must not allow yourself to be caught up in the workings of the world; you must find time alone, away from the noise and confusion, away from the allure of power and wealth. — THOMAS À KEMPIS AUGUSTINIAN MONK

Hundreds of feet below, the cobblestone piazza beckons like a tranquil oasis. How

Make peace within, and there will be no one who can overcome you. And no one you will wish to overcome.

The beauty of being dead, he knows now, is that there is no pain and no sense of self.

she released the world for the land of infant sleep.

It suddenly occurred to Baedecker that small towns in America were saner than cities because they were allowed to sleep.

In the first place , I was removed from all the wickedness of the world here. I had neither the lust of the flesh, the lust of the eye, or the pride of life. I had nothing to covet; for I had all that I was now capable of enjoying.

A man that coveted a retreat in this world might as agreeably spend his time... in Dorchester as in any town I know in England.