Quotes About Tranquility

If only I could be hidden in a corner, so as not to be tempted to worry about things that are not really my business.

Rest is a fine medicine. Let your stomachs rest, ye dyspeptics; let your brain rest, you wearied and worried people of business; let your limbs rest, ye children of toil!

Turn your car into a monastery.

Transcendental meditation is like a car, a vehicle that allows you to go within. It's a mental technique.

The meditation technique itself cultivate precision, gentleness, and the ability to let go - qualities that are innate within us.

As swans swim on the lake and vultures roam in the charnel ground, you can let your mind rest in its natural state.

If the object of meditation were something concrete, something solid and graspable - an image or a statue or a dot on the floor or a candle - it would be much more of a concentration exercise. But the breath is very elusive; even if you wanted to give it one hundred percent attention, it would be difficult because it is so ephemeral, so light, so airy and spacious. As the object of meditation, it brings a sense of softness and gentleness.

Tú eres el cielo. Todo lo demás es solo el clima

It was just as Trungpa Rinpoche used to say, "When your mind is big, thoughts are like mosquitoes buzzing around with nowhere to land.

One thing that is very helpful is to cultivate an overall sense of relaxation while you are doing the meditation.

He did not want to be young again -- that time had had particular and transcendent horrors -- but the thought of being any older filled him with panic. He could not imagine finding tranquility of soul in old age; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well, one might suddenly achieve equilibrium, certainty, serenity. There would still be possibilities. Hopes.

As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that 'empty' was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There

Spiritual rest comes through faith.

He felt at peace only in the hour before dawn, when the darkness seemed to give way slowly to a mist, and it was at this hour that he would wake and sit by his window.

He had created a desert, and called it peace.

The sea looks the same after the boats are gone.

La agradable sensación de no tener que hablar, de dejar que pase el silencio general, mirando el mar u otra cosa, o incluso nada.

Alistair je nakratko zatvorio o?i i sjetio se ne?ega što mu je otac rekao, re?enice koju kao dijete nikad nije razumio: Tišina je snaga.

He didn't know why, but the sight of the water stretching out as far as the eye could see, until it met the sky way in the distance, evoked a feeling of awe in him: the way it was always changing, the surface swelling and dipping, the scudding whitecaps and huge breakers. It put you in your place, put things in perspective. He could watch it forever.

Satchidananda.

She closed her eyes; and in the sweet slumber lying her spirit tiptoed from its lodging place. It's folly to shrink in fear, if this is dying; for death looked lovely in her face.

Por eso soy partidario de la filosofía del difunto Satchel Paige, que afirmaba: «A veces me siento y pienso y otras, simplemente, me siento».

I'm tired and I want to rest; I want to get out of this and go lie down somewhere, off where it's dark and no one speaks. Forever.

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