Quotes About Tranquility

Pakdusan, Mount of Eternal Snow

If you would only stop thinking, you would be much happier.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

Every time we are willing to let the story line go, and every time we are willing to let go at the end of the out-breath, that's fundamentally renunciation: learning how to let go of holding on and holding back.

The towns and countryside that the traveler sees through a train window do not slow down the train, nor does the train affect them. Neither disturbs the other. This is how you should see the thoughts that pass through your mind when you meditate. —DILGO KHYENTSE RINPOCHE

you are the sky. everything else - it's just the weather.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end

A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.

To ease the pain, erase the anger.

When angry, count to Zen.

A calm ocean is safer than a raging river.

The ultimate aim of martial arts is not having to use them

Sabrina fair, Listen where thou art sitting Under the glassy, cool, translucent wave, In twisted braids of lilies knitting The loose train of thy amber-dropping hair.

Vacant heart, and hand, and eye, Easy live and quiet die.

I have so little mastered the art of tranquil living that wherever I go I trail storm clouds of drama around me.

Personally I have no bone to pick with graveyards.

The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one's self.

We take our last look at the killing noise.

In the middle of a perfect tranquillity, it is an art to imagine about the nightmares of storms!

Meditation is the delicate art of doing nothing.

What keeps my heart awake is colorful silence.

Still there is a calm pure harmony and music inside of me.

The power of music feels like taking a a nice brake from this busy world