Quotes About Tranquility

That's the reason why I chose to spend my last years here and die in my house on the seashore. A man who looks at the sea turns his back on the misfortunes of the world. Somehow, he resigns himself to them.

Life is stressful,dear. That's why they say "rest in peace.

Life is stressful, dear. That's why they say "rest in peace".

There's nothing like a good, long sleep to allow unpleasantness to recede into the past.

The more we let go, the more peace here." He touched his heart.

Maybe it's not that it's too quiet now, maybe it was too loud before?

Calm me, O Lord, as You stilled the storm; Still me, O Lord; keep me from harm. Let all the storms within me cease. Enfold me, Lord, in Your peace. Amen. —CELTIC PRAYER

People at the Neutral level are easy to get along with and safe to associate with because they are not interested in conflict, competition, or guilt.

When meditating one dwells in the empty, silent no-thing-ness from which mental phenomena arise; when thoughts and images appear one lets them go.

It is a commonplace of Christian thought that joy is deep tranquility. Yet it seems to me that biblical joy is something more: it is "holy laughter"—the laughter of Sarah, for example: "God has brought me laughter, and everyone who hears about this will laugh with me" (Genesis 21:6).

tonight? Yoga? Meditation?

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Having money is less important than having peace.

Walking the roads is enough today, I'll follow the dark line of receding sun

Sleep is exercise for the soul

Even as a child, she had preferred night to day, had enjoyed sitting out in the yard after sunset, under the star-speckled sky listening to frogs and crickets. Darkness soothed. It softened the sharp edges of the world, toned down the too-harsh colors. With the coming of twilight, the sky seemed to recede; the universe expanded. The night was bigger than the day, and in its realm, life seemed to have more possibilities.

He paused again, letting his words settle like stones falling to the bottom of a pond.

Sleep had crept in, and after a little while, she came for me too.

Just that, is one of those uncommon moments, those times when you don't wish for something else, for even one thing to be different; when you have no other needs or worries, where your insides are calm, and everything you were ever restless about, anything that had ever given you angst, is quieted to stillness. No steel ball in your chest, no breathless fear. No blue numbness of nearly passing out, no nagging doubts of the backstage mind. All of that, forgotten. It is just rightness, so rare.

A library is a physical equivalent of a sigh.

Silence is the best melody.

Happiness is a hot bath on a Sunday afternoon.

Silence nurtures the soul, relaxes the body temple and gives us the strength we need in moments of uncertainty. Welcome it.

Silence is peace, silence is quiet, silence is calming, silence is what you can be.