Quotes About Tranquility

The other ponds, our pond included, are just as they have always been.

We have the right to "Freedom of Peace".

would flower; and where birds came—and pecked

With meditation I found a ledge above the waterfall of my thoughts.

Then everything was still. Absolutely still.

It spun faster and faster then everything was still. Absolutely still.

The way I see it, being dead is not terribly far off from being on a cruise ship. Most of your time is spent lying on your back. The brain has shut down. The flesh begins to soften. Nothing much new happens, and nothing is expected of you.

nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilizing the mind as a steady purpose -- a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

Nap time for Lumawoo

The only peace is being out of earshot.

Al contrario, se trata de alcanzar lo que los estoicos llaman apatheia que, a pesar del eco obvio y poco atractivo que despierta, hemos visto que significa tranquilidad mental, y también ecuanimidad hacia todo lo que la vida nos ponga en el camino.

Zhuangzi, another pivotal Daoist sage in the fourth century BCE, says, "Resign yourself to what cannot be avoided and nourish what is within you—this is the best.

Your mind is like this water my friend, when it is agitated it becomes difficult to see, but if you allow it to settle, the answer becomes clear.

Peace of mind is better than all the riches of the world.

How still it is! Stinging into the stones, The locusts' trill.

Clear cascades!Into the waves scatterBlue pine needles.

A rough sea!Stretched out over SadoThe Milky Way.

Moon woke me up nine times —still just 4 a.m.

Along this road goes no one, this autumn eve.

On this road where nobody else travels autumn nightfall.

???? ?????? ??? The deep Stillness Seeping into the rocks The voice of the Cicadas

Chrysanthemum Silence - monk Sips his morning tea.

A warbler singing— somewhere beyond the willow, before the thicket