Quotes About Serenity

Unknowing, let us sleep. Chest against chest, Our breathing mingled, hand in hand without dreams.

Sleeping is forgetting and forgetting is peace.

The silence Is like moonlight In one thing: That it hides nothing.

The sun's champagne streamed from one body into another. And there was a couple on the green silk of the grass, covered by a raspberry umbrella. Only their feet and a little bit of lace could be seen. In the magnificent universe beneath the raspberry umbrella, with closed eyes, they drank in the sparkling madness ... they were immortal. What did it matter that in another far-away universe people would be killing each other?

Instantly a thick blackness seemed to enfold her and silence as of a dead world settled down upon her. Drowsy as she was she could not close her eyes nor refrain from listening. Darkness and silence were tangible things. She felt them. And they seemed suddenly potent with magic charm to still the tumult of her, to sooth and rest, to create thought she had never thought before. Rest was more than selfish indulgence. Loneliness was necessary to gain conciseness of the soul.

Why is there happiness and comfort and excitement where you are and no where else in the world?

If you're in a hurry to find happiness, slow down. Give it a chance to catch up with you.

My only ritual is making sure everyone leaves me alone.

Sometimes, simply by sitting, the soul collects wisdom.

Sit quiety, doing nothing, spring comes, and the grass grows by itself.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Flow with whatever may happen, and let your mind be free: Stay centered by accepting whatever you are doing. This is the ultimate.

The wise man knows that it is better to sit on the banks of a remote mountain stream than to be emperor of the whole world.

The Perfect Man uses his mind like a mirror - going after nothing, welcoming nothing, responding but not storing.

Don't go in and hide; don't come out and shine; stand stock-still in the middle.

The sage is still not because he takes stillness to be good and therefore is still. The ten thousand things are insufficient to distract his mind - that is the reason he is still.

Can you be a little baby? The baby howls all day, yet its throat never gets hoarse - harmony at its height! The baby makes fists all day, yet its fingers never get cramped - virtue is all it holds to. The baby stares all day without blinking its eyes - it has no preferences in the world of externals.

Si tu veux trouver la paix, immerge-toi dans la bienveillance, éteins tous les désirs dans ton coeur, retire-toi dans la solitude

You should find the same joy in one condition as in the other and thereby be free of care, that is all. But now, when the things that happened along take their leave, you cease to be joyful. From this point of view, though you have joy, it will always be fated for destruction.

You will always find an answer in the sound of water.

I know the joy of fishes In the river Through my own joy, as I go walking Along the same river.

Täydellinen Ihminen on jumalan kaltainen. Vaikka suuret suot palaisivat, ne eivät pystyisi polttamaan häntä; vaikka nopeat salamat iskisivät vuoria halki ja tuuli kuohuttaisi merta, ne eivät säikäyttäisi häntä. Koska hän on sellainen, hän ratsastaa pilvillä ja usvalla, satuloi auuringon ja kuun ja vaeltaa Neljän Meren rajojen ulkopuolelle. Kuolema ja elämä eivät pysty häntä muuttamaan, saati sitten hyödyn ja vahingon ajatukset.

Quand on a compris ce que sont le commencement, la noblesse, l'intelligence, la transformation, l'infiini, la foi et la sérénité, alors on a atteint la connaissance suprême.

Whoever focuses on externals will be clumsy inside. (p. 177)