Quotes About Serenity

The real spiritual progress of the aspirant is measured by the extent to which he achieves inner tranquility.

Give up being right. Instead radiate peace, harmony, love, and laughter from your heart.

The quickest way to experiencing the peace inside, is to learn to recognize when I am not at peace.

Take care of your inner, spiritual beauty. That will reflect in your face.

Peaceful is the one who's not concerned with having more or less. Unbound by name and fame, he is free from sorrow from the world and mostly from himself.

Stop leaving and you will arrive, Stop searching and you will see, Stop running away and you will be found.

Happy is the man who is nothing.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

On my first trip to India, my guru took me to an ashram in Allahabad. I felt like I was walking into a place I had been before. It felt like it was my spiritual home.

The greatest help to spiritual life is meditation.

What would we have to hold in compassion to be at peace right now? What would we have to let go of to be at peace right now?

There is no 'way to peace,' there is only 'peace.

Compassion automatically brings happiness and calmness. Then, even if you receive disturbing news, it will be easier to take, as your mind is still.

Inner silence works from the moment you begin to accrue it. What the old sorcerers were after was the final dramatic, end result of reaching that individual threshold of silence.

Looking deeply at life as it is in this very moment, the meditator dwells in stability and freedom.

Blissfulness does not compel you to behave in any particular way. Out of bliss, I can laugh or cry; I can sit quietly or be active in the world.

Tea is also a sort of spiritual refreshment, an elixir of clarity and wakeful tranquility.

To find perfect composure in the midst of change is to find nirvana.

I acknowledge with great gratitude the peace and contentment we can find for ourselves in the spiritual cocoons of our homes, our sacrament meetings, and our holy temples.

Achieve order within yourself...an inward tranquility which knows no disturbance at any moment...in the daily life of the home and the office.

One who is constantly resting within himself is capable of endless activity.

Sit, be still, and listen, because you're drunk and we're at the edge of the roof.

Spiritual balance is how you deal with opposition, outside of yourself and within.

The very attention given to finding out if the mind can be completely quiet is quietness.