Quotes About Tranquility

Love, joy, and peace cannot flourish until you have freed yourself from mind dominance.

All you realy need to do is accept this moment fully. You are then at ease in the here and now and at ease with yourself.

Stillness is where creativity and solutions to problems are found.

Seek out a tree, and let it teach you stillness.

Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be. It is an intrinsic but unmanifested part of every sound, every musical note, every song, every word.

The intensity of the pain depends on the degree of resistance to the present moment.

This is beautifully expressed in the Zen saying "The snow falls, each flake in its appropriate place.

Listening to silence awakens the dimension of stillness within yourself, because it is only through stillness that you can be aware of silence.

Instead of having a wall of resistance inside you that gets constantly and painfully hit by things that 'should not be happening,' let everything pass through you.

Leave Life alone. Let it be.

To listen to the silence, wherever you are, is an easy and direct way of becoming present. Even if there is noise, there is always some silence underneath and in between the sounds.

Enlightenment is a state of wholeness, of being "at one" and therefore at peace.

Having gone beyond the mind-made opposites, you become like a deep lake. The outer situation of your life and whatever happens there is the surface of the lake. Sometimes calm, sometimes windy and rough, according to the cycles and seasons. Deep down, however, the lake is always undisturbed. You are the whole lake, not just the surface, and you are in touch with your own depth, which remains absolutely still.

Oír el silencio, dondequiera que esté, es una forma fácil y directa de hacerse presente. Incluso si hay ruido, hay siempre silencio bajo y entre los sonidos.

When you are fully conscious, drama does not come into your life anymore.

Now consider this: If there were nothing but silence, it wouldn't exist for you; you wouldn't know what it is. Only when sound appears does silence come into being.

For happiness, how little suffices for happiness!…the least thing precisely, the gentlest thing, the lightest thing, a lizard's rustling, a breath, a wisk, an eye glance—little maketh up the best happiness. Be still."4

Every sound is born out of silence, dies back into silence, and during its life span is surrounded by silence. Silence enables the sound to be.

Sólo cuando aparece el sonido el silencio empieza a ser.

When you look and listen in this way, you may become aware of a subtle and at first perhaps hardly noticeable sense of calm. Some people feel it as a stillness in the background. Others call it peace. When consciousness is no longer totally absorbed by thinking, some of it remains in its formless, unconditioned, original state. This is inner space.

BEAUTY ARISES IN THE STILLNESS OF YOUR PRESENCE

If peace is really what you want, then you will choose peace.

If the price of peace were a lowering of your consciousness, and the price of stillness a lack of vitality and alertness, then they would not be worth having.

Some people may feel, as I did, that they cannot live with themselves anymore. Inner peace then becomes their first priority.