Quotes About Serenity

With tears and prayers and tender hands, Mother and sisters made her ready for the long sleep that pain would never mar again, seeing with grateful eyes the beautiful serenity that soon replaced the pathetic patience that had wrung their hearts so long, and feeling with reverent joy that to their darling death was a benignant angel, not a phantom full of dread.

El viento silbaba por encima de las abatidas colinas, el agua caía en forma de lúgubre llovizna, y el ocaso se cernió sobre el paisaje. Pero los ojos del hombre tranquilo penetraban la niebla con la misma calma que si tuviera ante sí un radiante arco de promesas extendiéndose por la grisura del cielo.

I was in love with the whole world and all that lived in its rainy arms.

When he needed to calm his mind, he opened a book. Any book. He had never failed to feel refreshed, even if the book was no good.

When a baby falls asleep in your arms you are absolved. The purest creature alive has chosen you. There's nothing else.

seemed quite content to sit in silence sometimes and not try to entertain each other.

petrichord: the sound of water sliding over smooth stone.

It was the kind of early-fall day Rachel had always loved, not warm or cold, the sky all deep-blue and cloudless and no breeze, the crops proud and ripe and the leaves so pretty but hardly a one yet fallen--a day so perfect that the earth itself seemed sorry to let it pass, so slowed down its roll into evening and let it linger.

a day so perfect that the earth itself seemed sorry to let it pass, so slowed down its roll into evening and let it linger.

A veces la proximidad con la muerte te llena de una extraña, casi visionaria serenidad.

Era ese momento de la alta madrugada en el que la noche está a punto de rendirse al día y hay un tiempo que parece estar fuera del tiempo. Un instante de pura eternidad.

One just had to be content with what had happened so far.

Churches are so nice when they're empty. Like empty streets. You can see their shape.

Alone. She realized how much she had missed the luxury of solitude, and knew that its occasional comfort would always be essential to her. The pleasure of being on one's own was not so much spiritual as sensuous, like wearing silk, or swimming without a bathing suit on, or walking along a totally empty beach with the sun on your back. One was restored by solitude. Refreshed.

There is a time in the last few days of summer when the ripeness of autumn fills the air, and time is quiet and mellow. I lived that time fully, strangely aware of a new world opening up and taking shape for me.

There's no jealousy in the grave.

Ere the moon has climbed the mountain, ere the rocks are ribbed with light

If your mirror be broken, look into still water; but have a care that you do not fall in.     ââ'¬â€Hindu Proverb.

Heatherlegh is the dearest doctor that ever was, and his invariable prescription to all his patients is, lie low, go slow, and keep cool.

The air was full of all the night noises that, taken together, make one big silence

When you find out you can live without it, go along not thinking about it.

slowly, meditation gives our amygdala a chance to make more calm and measured assessments of situations.

Old Jiko is supercareful with her time. She does everything really really slowly, even when she's just sitting on the veranda, looking out at the dragonflies spinning lazily around the garden pond. She says that she does everything really really slowly in order to spread time out so that she'll have more of it and live longer, and then she laughs so that you know she is telling you a joke.

Zazen is better than a home. Zazen is a home that you can't ever lose.