Quotes About Serenity

In a happy home, there aren't continuing crises you need to solve (or wonder how to endure when you're too young to solve anything). People aren't stuck in power struggles. There aren't silent or not-so-silent wars between family members. In a happy home you're not all holding your breath. You can relax and be yourself. A

Being comfortable in your zone is essential to being calm.

Slow down and think. Panic doesn't solve problems; it just creates new ones.

When all the people unlocked their doors, they saw that the kingdom had changed. With the towns quiet and the roads empty, the land had grown greener and the skies had grown bluer. The trees were taller, there were flowers everywhere and the air was filled with the singing of birds.

The salarians had a saying: the mind with many secrets can never rest.

We seek peace, knowing that peace is the climate of freedom.

Noone beautiful ever hurries.

i St ep into the not merely immeasurable into the mightily alive the dear beautiful eternal night

the ponderous ferocity of silence….

Happiness consists of living in the dailyness of life and not knowing how happy you are. True happiness comes of not knowing you're happy, it's an animal serenity, something between contentment and joy, a steadiness of the belonged self in the world.

I stopped wondering what she was feeling, what she was thinking. She was happy on the move, alert and at peace, all the inflamed spirit was lifted from her.

I made myself a glass of chocolate milk using enough syrup for three normal glasses. I also made myself four peanut butter crackers. Then I walked out the living room door to our terrace. The trees were coming! New green was all over ... green so new that it was kissing yellow.

Is there a difference between happiness and inner peace? Yes. Happiness depends on conditions being perceived as positive; inner peace does not.

This is my secret, he said. I don't mind what happens.

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.

When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself.

One day you may catch yourself smiling at the voice in your head, as you would smile at the antics of a child. This means that you no longer take the content of your mind all that seriously, as your sense of self does not depend on it.

This is my secret," he said. "I don't mind what happens.

Whenever you deeply accept this moment as it is — no matter what form it takes — you are still, you are at peace.

El amor no desea ni teme nada.

You also realize that all the things that truly matter — beauty, love, creativity, joy, inner peace — arise from beyond the mind. You begin to awaken.

Si puedes aprender a aceptar, e incluso a dar la bienvenida a los finales de tu vida, tal vez descubras que el sentimiento de vacío, que inicialmente te pareció incómodo, se convierte en una sensación de espacio interno que es profundamente apacible.

If you find the here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: Remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally...

It is inner stillness that will save and transform the world.