Quotes About Tranquility

Keep a green tree in your heart and perhaps a singing bird will come.

He who is drowned is not troubled by the rain.

In the end, it is impossible to have a great life unless it is a meaningful life. And it is very difficult to have a meaningful life without meaningful work. Perhaps, then, you might gain that rare tranquility that comes from knowing that you've had a hand in creating something of intrinsic excellence that makes a contribution. Indeed, you might even gain that deepest of all satisfactions: knowing that your short time here on this earth has been well spent, and that it mattered.

I'd go into the bathroom, pee, close my eyes, and try to find a mental black dot. Then I'd float through that black dot for almost sixty seconds and be in nothing. I'd come out of the bathroom thinking how perfect I felt.

again: Let the past go. Be at ease. Allow the future to arrive at its own pace, unfurling its secrets when it will.

The purpose of the practice of meditation is to experience the gaps. We do nothing, essentially, and see what that brings—either discomfort or relief, whatever the case may be. The starting point for the practice of meditation is the mindfulness discipline of developing peace. The peace we experience in meditation is simply this state of doing nothing, which is experiencing the absence of speed.

In meditation practice, we neither hold the mind very tightly nor let it go completely. If we try to control the mind, then its energy will rebound back on us. If we let the mind go completely, then it will become very wild and chaotic. So we let the mind go, but at the same time there is some discipline involved.

Thoran, watching him, stretched out his paws and allowed

ZANNA IN THE GARDEN

Her stillness defeated his storm.

Even the bureaucracy does not shatter the stillness.

Ci abituiamo di nuovo a dormire tranquilli. Viviamo senza risparmiarci, come ce ne fosse anche troppa di questa strana sostanza ch'è la vita, come se non dovesse avere mai fine.

Das ist natürlich etwas schwierig zu erklären, aber es ist ein bisschen so, als finde man seinen Platz in der Welt. Es ist kein Sog mehr, kein Ohnmächtigwerden angesichts des Lebens, das neben einem so abläuft, sondern ein Stillsein. Ja, genau das ist es: Ein Stillsein. Die Stille.

Die Trichter Zwei Trichter wandeln durch die Nacht. Durch ihres Rumpfs verengten Schacht fließt weißes Mondlicht still und heiter auf ihren Waldweg u.s. w.

The activity of the young is like that of railcars in motion--they tear along with noise and turmoil, and leave peace behind them. The quietest nooks, invaded by them, lose their quietude as they pass, and recover it only on their departure.

Clarity is often found in stillness.

When I shut my eyes in the warm bath, I feel as if I'm floating inside a cloud.

the haunted always take refuge in stillness.

Silence is more musical than any song.

One day in the country Is worth a month in town

All the best gods are made of stone and say nothing.

silence across the field. When they reached the edge of the forest, Claire's anxiety faded. It really would be easier

Le silence est aux bruits ce que l'ombre est a la lumière, ou le sommeil a la veille: une autre face indispensable.

I then fell asleep fast. Fell being the key word. Fell into the place called sleep, where we rest. Where we find peace for a little while.