Quotes About Tranquility

The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

Zen masters say you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

This was my moment to look for the kind of healing and peace that can only come from solitude.

Take me someplace where we can be silent together.

Most of us, even if only for two minutes in our lives, have experienced at some time or another an inexplicable and random sense of complete bliss, unrelated to anything that was happening in the outside world.

The resting place of the mind is the heart.

Also, I could finally sleep. And this was the real gift, because when you cannot sleep, you cannot get yourself out of the ditch--there's not a chance.

Il bel far niente.

The sweetness of doing nothing.

The other day a monk told me, 'The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

must leave the busy commotion of the mind and abandon the desires of the ego and enter into the silence of the heart. The

I would like to spend the rest of my days in a place so silent—and working at a pace so slow—that I would be able to hear myself living.

Take me someplace where we can be silent together." ? Elizabeth Gilbert, The Signature of All Things

Elizabeth Gilbert

When the mind is tired, or the soul is disquieted, let us go to the woods and fill our lungs with the rain-washed and the sun-cleansed air, and our hearts with the beauty of tree, flower, crystal, and gem." The

you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

The other day a monk told me, "The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and all it wants is quietude. The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart. That's where you need to go.

The only place the mind will ever find peace is inside the silence of the heart.

If you clear out all of that space in your mind you would have a door way.

un cierto grado de desapego inteligente puede ser un valioso instrumento de paz en esta vida.

Zen masters always say that you cannot see your reflection in running water, only in still water.

The hub of calmness—that's your heart. That's where God lives within you. So stop looking for answers in the world. Just keep coming back to that center and you'll always find peace.

both pleasure and devotion require a stress-free space in which to flourish...

But how should we find peace within ourselves?" I asked Ketut. "Meditation," he said. "Purpose of meditation is only happiness and peace—very easy. Today