Quotes About Tranquility

I dream of being alone on top of a mountain, surveying the land around me, greens and yellows--and the sun directly above, pressing my shadow into a tight ball around my legs. As the sun drops into the afternoon sky, the shadow undrapes itself and stretches out toward the horizon, long and thin, and far behind me...

As is written in stanza 74 of the Vijnanabhairava Tantra: "Wherever you find satisfaction, the very essence of bliss will be revealed to you if you remain in this place without mental wavering.

at the heart of every person is an absolute and faultless realm that cannot be sullied or damaged by any action. All aggression takes place at the edges of this immaculate jewel.

Pine trees with low limbs spread over fresh snow made a stronger vault for the spirit than pews and pulpits ever could.

There is no such thing as perpetual tranquility of mind while we live here; because life itself is but motion, and can never be without desire, nor without fear, no more than without sense.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature – trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence… We need silence to be able to touch souls.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Take a deep breath. Get present in the moment and ask yourself what is important this very seconds. Each one has to find his peace from within. And peace to be real must be unaffected by outside circumstances.

You can't calm the storm…so stop trying. What you can do is calm yourself. The storm will pass.

Quiet the mind and the soul will speak.

Balance is the key of life.

Summer afternoon – summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.

There is nothing I like better at the end of a hot summer's day than taking a short walk around the garden. You can smell the heat coming up from the earth to meet the cooler night air.

Deep summer is when laziness finds respectability.

The summer night is like a perfection of thought.

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.

I am old, so give me your peace. Wisdom comes with age.

Feeling indisposed towards the evening, I drove up the ancient plains. The setting sun is unspeakably beautiful, Only it is approaching nightfall.

It was not about the sea or the sand, but burying her feet there had seemed to cure what had worried her...

I'm all alone, but I'm not lonely.

It is kind of lovely to be sitting alone, just thinking, very quiet, no one around. I don't feel alone or left out.

All men's miseries derive from not being able to sit in a quiet room alone.

There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it.

I like to be left alone when I'm not working.