Quotes About Serenity

La identificación con su mente, que hace que el pensamiento se vuelva compulsivo. No ser capaz de dejar de pensar es una calamidad terrible, pero no nos damos cuenta de ello así que se considera normal. Este ruido mental incesante nos impide encontrar ese reino de quietud interior que es inseparable del Ser. También crea un falso ser hecho por la mente que arroja una sombra de temor y de sufrimiento.

Feel yourself becoming transparent, as it were, without the solidity of a material body. Now allow the noise, or whatever causes a negative reaction, to pass right through you. It is no longer hitting a solid "wall" inside you.

Not to be able to stop thinking is a dreadful affliction, but we don't realize this because almost everybody is suffering from it, so it is considered normal.

Unhappiness covers up your natural state of well-being and inner peace, the source of true happiness.

You cannot pay attention to silence without simultaneously becoming still within. Silence without, stillness within.

They look upon the present moment as either marred by something that has happened and shouldn't have or as deficient because of something that has not happened but should have. And so they miss the deeper perfection that is inherent in life itself, a perfection that is always already here, that lies beyond what is happening or not happening, beyond form. Accept the present moment and find the perfection that is deeper than any form and untouched by time.

CAN YOU HEAR THE MOUNTAIN STREAM?

Stress is caused by being here but wanting to be there, or being in the present but wanting to be in the future. It's a split that tears you apart inside.

Or when you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence. There is one certain criterion by which you can measure your success in this practice: the degree of peace that you feel within.

Can you feel there is something in you that would rather be right than at peace?

Forgiveness is to offer no resistance to life.

Vuélvase intensamente con-sciente del momento presente. Esto es algo profundamente satisfactorio. De esa forma usted aparta la conciencia de la actividad de su mente y crea una brecha de no-mente en la que usted está muy alerta y consciente, pero no pensando. Esa es la esencia de la meditación.

NO OFRECER RESISTENCIA A LA VIDA es estar en un estado de gracia, tranquilidad y ligereza, un estado que no depende de que las cosas sean de cierta manera, buenas o malas.

Dondequiera que esté, esté plena-mente allí. Si encuentra su aquí y ahora intolerable y lo hace infeliz, tiene tres opciones: apártese de la situación, cámbiela o acéptela totalmente.

We are to think (of the dead) that they pass into a better place and a happier condition.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

He simply felt that if he could carry away the vision of the spot of earth she walked on, and the way the sky and sea enclosed it, the rest of the world might seem less empty.

I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one's center of life inside of one's self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one's inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

Little as she was addicted to solitude, there had come to be moments when it seemed a welcome escape from the empty noises of her life.

She would never again know what it was to feel herself alone. Everything seemed to have suddenly grown clear and simple.

She rose too, not as if to meet him or to flee from him, but quietly, as though the worst of the task were done and she had only to wait; so quietly that, as he came close, her outstretched hands acted not as a check but as a guide to him.

as usual, kept the fire alive and the lamp trimmed; and the room, with its rows and rows of books

One may be strengthened & fed without the aid of Joy, & no one knows it better than I do; & I believe I know the only cure, which is to make one's center of life inside of one's self, not selfishly or excludingly, but with a kind of unassailable serenity—to decorate one's inner house so richly that one is content there, glad to welcome anyone who wants to come and stay, but happy all the same when one is inevitably alone.

The blood that ran so close to her fair skin might have been a preserving fluid rather than a ravaging element; yet her look of indestructible youthfulness made her seem neither hard nor dull, but only primitive and pure.