Quotes About Serenity

But the desert offers something that no forest brook or valley ever can: distance. A

I don't like money actually, but it quiets my nerves.

I put out the lamp, left Hog snoring, crept outside, and got some air, which was rich and sticky, like a sweaty horse shank, full of the sounds of cicadas and crickets and more than a few bleating frogs.

Stress is caused by being 'here' but wanting to be 'there'." —Eckhart Tolle

God will give us a peace that passes understanding." You're not going to figure everything out. If you let go of the questions of life, you will have a peace that goes beyond what you can understand.

When you know the time has been set, you'll have a peace.

God said, "If you will keep your mind fixed on Me, I will keep you in perfect peace.

stay in peace." When

God clothes the lilies of the field.

Stay in the Place of Rest Maybe

Thou wilt keep him in perfect peace whose mind is stayed on thee.

Her plea was the music that the soul could hear at sunrise, if the mind was still enough to hear it.

You've taught me a great deal about stillness.

emotions. Composing herself the same way she did

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

The ocean makes you feel like the world is greeting you with a soft, wet, welcoming indifference. It's never going to argue back, no matter how loud you yell.

She believed she had uncovered a key truth about focus: To pay attention in normal ways, you need to feel safe.

To pay attention in normal ways, you need to feel safe. You need to be able to switch off the parts of your mind that are scanning the horizon for bears or lions or their modern equivalents, and let yourself sink down into one secure topic.

Now I make it a point to go for a walk for an hour every day without my phone or anything else that could distract me. I let my thoughts float and find unexpected connections. I found that, precisely because I give my

It's easier to find serenity through meditation when you haven't just lost your job and you aren't wondering how you're going to avoid being evicted next Tuesday.

Tobe, Welt, und springe; ich steh' hier und singe in gar sichrer Ruh'.

ease. One of them, an agreeable

La soledad en este paraíso terrenal es un bálsamo genial para mi mente,

Lamplight, console me till then, harbinger warm of the night.