Quotes About Serenity

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect.

He hoped these students would learn how to be at home in the desert, not how to conquer it; and he hoped that, in the process, they might discover the spiritual value of quietude.

As with the wei-wu-wei, "in changing it is at rest" (Heraclitus, frag. 84a). In place of the apparently solid I that does them, there would be an empty and immutably serene quality to them. The experience would be not of a succession of events (winter does not turn into spring) but just-this-one-effortless-thing (tathat?) and then another just-this-one-thing.

At every stage of life, our inner self requires the nurturance of loving people attuned to our feelings and responsive to our needs who can foster our inner resources of personal power, lovability, and serenity. Those who love us understand us and are available to us with an attention, appreciation, acceptance, and affection we can feel. They make room for us to be who we are.

Teach us to care and not to care Teach us to sit still Even among these rocks.

Yes is the brave ally of serenity; no is the scared accomplice of anxiety.

Tanr?m, bana de?i?tirebilece?im ?eyleri de?i?tirmek için cesaret, de?i?tiremeyeceklerimi kabul etmek için sab?r ve ikisini birbirinden ay?rmak için ak?l ihsan eyle. Reinhold Niebuhr

tonight? Yoga? Meditation?

Still, isn't it nice to be nice, to hold a breath? Isn't it good to save up for it, and really relish it, just sometimes?

She closed her eyes and lifter her face to the

Zzzzzzzzzzzzz? zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Having money is less important than having peace.

Beauty is the harvest of presence.

we have so many allies in this world, including just the color blue in the sky

Let the apple ripen on the branch beyond your need to take it down.

It's just a real gentle moment. I'm here by myself and I don't mind. I kind of wish it could just stay like this for maybe a few years, or I just never moved out of this spot. I could just watch the light stay like this. And maybe somebody coming along and just putting their arms around me for a few minutes.

One of the best ways to recharge is by simply being in the presence of art. No thoughts, no critiques. Just full-on absorption mode.

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.

What are you, a Hindu?" he replied, "No, I'm an Undo" (another reason we chose this book's title). "Peace comes not from doing, but from undoing; not from getting, but from letting go. It's there already until you disturb it. The purpose of all spiritual practices is to stop disturbing what you already have.

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.

Stop worrying about what might not happen and allow what is to be.

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.

The night smelled like blackberry leaves and the ocean's nearness, something sweet and deep and full.