Quotes About Serenity

Let the breath lead the way.

As we practice meditation, we get used to stillness and eventually are able to make friends with the quietness of our sensations.

The art of concentration is a continual letting go. We let go of what is inessential or distracting. We let go of a thought or a feeling, not because we are afraid of it or because we can't bear to acknowledge it as a part of our experience; but, because it is UNNECESSARY.

look at the world with quiet eyes.

With mindfulness, loving kindness, and self-compassion, we can begin to let go of our expectations about how life and those we love should be.

While happiness is an end in itself, it is also the state of mind we can have right now.

Equanimity's strength derives from a combination of understanding and trust. It is based on understanding that the conflict and frustration we feel when we can't control the world doesn't come from our inability to do so but rather from the fact that we are trying to control the uncontrollable.

Why be unhappy about something if you can do something about it? If you can't do anything about it, why be unhappy about it?

relaxed perseverance.

Equanimity can be hard to talk about.

Consider how the sky is unharmed by the clouds that pass through it, whether they are light and fluffy-looking or dark and formidable. A mountain is not moved by the winds blowing over it, whether gentle or fierce. The ocean is not destroyed by the waves moving on its surface, whether high or low. In just that way, no matter what we experience, some aspect of ourselves remains unharmed. This is the innate happiness of awareness.

In Buddhism there is one word for mind & heart: chitta. Chitta refers not just to thoughts and emotions in the narrow sense of arising from the brain, but also to the whole range of consciousness, vast & unimpeded.

It is a state of peace to be able to accept things as they are. This is to be at home in our own lives. We see that this universe is much too big to hold on to, but it is the perfect size for letting go. Our hearts and minds become that big, and we can actually let go. This is the gift of equanimity.

May you live with ease, May you be happy, May you be free from pain.

Each opportunity to interrupt the onslaught of thoughts and return to the object of meditation is, in fact, a moment of enlightenment

The manifestation of the free mind is said to be lovingkindness, compassion, sympathetic joy, and equanimity.

This was mainly a brown country, cluttered with dead leaves from the year before, but the oaks had tasseled and the redbud limbs were like flames in the wind. Fruit trees in cabin yards, peach and pear and occasional quince, were sheathed with bloom, white and pink, twinkling against broken fields and random cuts of new grass washed clean by the rain.

Grass! Millions of square miles of it. . . . a hundred rippling oceans, each ripple a gleam of scarlet or amber, emerald or turquoise. . . . the colors shivering over the prairies. . . . Sapphire seas of grass with dark islands of grass bearing great plumy trees which are grass again.

It was so quiet, a reservation kind of quiet, where you can hear somebody drinking whiskey on the rocks three miles away.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito...

If I stand at this window long enough I will see the long thread of history float randomly through the breeze. This is all I know about peace.

still waters run deep. ~Tabitha

Don't move, and breathe only if you have to. (Caleb)

He doesn't anger easily. This is good. (Takeshi) Yes, I'm more of a simmer slowly until it boils over and ruins everything kind of man. (Acheron)