Quotes About Tranquility

It seemed as if Muzak had sucked the soul out of the songs, but in fact they had created something entirely new, something close to what Satie imagined: furniture music, music that was clearly a useful and (to their subscribers) functional part of the environment, there to induce calm and tranquility in their shops and offices. Why is it that Satie's compositions, Brian Eno's ambient music, or the minimal spaced-out

BE AT REST ONCE MORE, O MY SOUL. PSALM 116:7

We can now see that the alternative to "preoccupation" and racing around in a flurry of busyness is learning how to live more deeply.

Truth never tranquilizes. The defining property of truth is its ability to disturb. Jesus only told half the story. The truth 'will' set you free. But, first it's going to piss you off.

And come, blue deeps! magnificently strown With coloured clouds — large, light, and fugitive...

il silenzio preserva la saggezza

Chuang Tzu had an apt view on such quiet receptivity: "There is happiness in stillness.... If you are open to everything you see and hear, and allow this to act through you, even gods and spirits will come to you."6

The] Tao [Self] Is simplicity, stillness, Indifference, purity. Here the highest knowledge Is unbounded.71

Detach from intellectual knowledge ... and return to clarity and calm,

Standing Alone Empty skies. And beyond, one hawk. Between river banks, two white gulls Laze, wind-drifted. Fit for an easy kill, To and fro, they follow contentment. Grasses all frost-singed. Spiderwebs Still hung. Heaven's loom of origins Tangling our human ways too, I stand Facing sorrow's ten thousand sources. Tu Fu

Amid spring mountains, alone, I set out to find you. Axe strokes crack-crack, and quit. Quiet mystery Deepens. I follow a stream up into last snow and ice And beyond, dusk light aslant, to Stone Gate forests. Deer roam all morning here, for you harm nothing. Wanting nothing, you know chi gold and silver all Night. Facing you on a whim in such dark, the way Home lost- I feel it drifting, this whole empty boat. Tu Fu

As suddenly the whole world would slip back into a mollifying, untormented dark; their aching bodies knew its calm.

silence and calm are more intimidating than any outburst,

Gunnar Ekelöf's poem "Waterlilies

He was travel stained, unkempt, and very tired, but his soul was at peace.

Let's get rid of the suffering and bring real peace, which is not just the absence of war, but the absence of all negativity.

A person whose mind is quiet and satisfied in God is in the pathway to health.

God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling.

God's peace is joy resting. His joy is peace dancing.

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God.

Only those of tranquil minds, and none else, can attain abiding joy, by realizing within their souls the Being who manifests one essence in a multiplicity of forms.

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

God is in his Heaven, all's right with the world.

Let the bugles sound the Truce of God to the whole world forever.