Quotes About Tranquility

Here I am surrounded by the things I love. I spend my time in the open, on the beach in stormy weather or when the fishing boats put out [...] In the evenings, my dear friend, there is a warm fire in my cottage, and the cosiness of a small family [...] I am now enjoying a spell of quiet, free of chores. Ideally I should like to stay in a peaceful nook like this for ever.

Por eso recomienda tanto la calma y la paciencia, en primer lugar consigo mismo. «Guardaos de las precipitaciones y de las inquietudes, porque no hay nada que nos estorbe más para caminar en la perfección» (Carta a Santa Chantal, 57, colec. Blaise).

ocean's snaking blues beyond the meadow

In Cadaques, time is suspended in such a way that days spent here are not counted in the ageing process.

To heal mine aching moods, Give me God's virgin woods.

But peace is not a principle: merely a desirable state of affairs.

Take it easy, take it easy Don't let the sound of your own wheels Drive you crazy.

I liked being with him, as I like being with swift animals who are motionless when at rest.

I'm past thinking,' said Sarah quietly.

Niech na twym niebie nie bÄ™dzie chmur, a jeÅ›li bÄ™dÄ… to niech majÄ… kolor i zapach ró?y.

He goes on to discuss the element of "dwelling upon" and advises that his readers can develop "special ways, tricks, private techniques, and spiritual devices" in order to achieve contemplation. One means is the use of a single syllable such as "God" or "love":

emblem. The meditator would place his head between his knees and whisper hymns and repeat the name of a magic emblem. Repetition of the magic emblem was used as the object to dwell upon and would chase away distractions and cause the "demons and hostile angels to flight." A state of ecstasy was reached, which Gershom G. Scholem, a scholar of Jewish mysticism, has described as "an attitude of deep self-oblivion.

Meditation and water are wedded for ever.

Think not, is my eleventh commandment; and sleep when you can, is my twelfth.

The best weapons against the infamies of life are courage, wilfulness and patience. Courage strenthens, wilfulness is fun and patience provides tranquility.

she found herself back in the quiet inner hideaway that had sheltered her in her childhood and early youth,

Every human longs for peace and love.

Of this bad world the loveliest and the bestHas smiled and said "Good Night," and gone to rest.

You seem very calm. Yes. Learn from it.

Fishing in a bucket. The total hopelessness of the activity was very soothing. It was the perfect sport. Without the emotional stresses of success and failure, she was entirely free to enjoy the pleasures of the moment... It was a good hobby, and cheap, and if more people did it more often

Only reading, she knew, could distract her from her obsessive thoughts and restore her sense of peace.

You have the potential for becoming air; as still, as necessary, just there.

To do nothing is also a good remedy.

To do nothing is sometimes a good remedy.