Quotes About Serenity

Contentment with our life as it is brings a feeling of great lightness, for we lose the burden of continually craving for situations and people to be different. Things are as they are. Refusing to accept this creates dukkha and brings pain. It is like pushing against a sealed door. We push and we push until our hands hurt, but we cannot open it. If we are wise, we accept that this is simply how it is. The door is sealed, and it is perfectly all right that it is so.

Not unconsciousness, but a ceasing of perception and feeling is experienced.

I am suddenly left alone again on the sunny path, with a memory of the rain.

Meditation is a balancing act between attention and relaxation.

Again and again, counteract the agitation and turbulence of the mind by relaxing more deeply, not by contracting the body or mind.

I can't understand why anyone would ever leave here," he said if as captivated by their surroundings as she was. "It's...breathtaking." He pulled up to the house and cut the engine before he looked over at her. "Just like you.

whose mind is not steady doesn't get happiness either amongst the people or in the loneliness of the jungle. When lonely he longs for company and when in company he yearns for loneliness.

A fusion of nature and soul.

disturbances of the mind and emotions fade away, and we are able to see true reality.

The mind does not balance when you force.

Balance does not mean merely balancing the body. Balance in the body is the foundation for balance in life. In whatever position one is in, or in whatever condition in life one is place, one must find balance. Balance is the state of the present - the here and now. If you balance in the present, you are living in Eternity.

The asana will not come by making faces.

You have to tame your breath to tame your brain. Live from moment to moment absorbed in the unruffled flow of the circular movement of the in- and out-breaths. It's current should be like that of a very full, stately river, whose movements cannot be seen.

Don't search for anything except peace. Try to calm the mind. Everything else will come on its own.

And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, come perfect days.

It is a rare and difficult attainment to grow old gracefully and happily.

I'm the sort of person who would be perfectly happy spending an entire day in a rare books room.

I love London in the rare parts of the year when it's quiet, and no time is more reliably quiet than the week between Christmas and New Year.

Often I sit in the lawn and have my morning cuppa amidst the twittering of rare birds.

Peace is rarely denied to the peaceful.

It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain!

The Sanctuary at Two Rivers offers a much needed escape or retreat from the fast paced, modern lifestyle we have all become accustomed to, with its exquisite beauty, serenity, and raw nature. Costa Rica was the perfect place for developing such an important project.

But I must confess that Kashmir is one place that made me reach out for the camera. Such is the setting that no matter in which direction one looks, you get a gorgeous frame.

I'm not very religious, but having reached middle age I rather enjoy the quiet and the contemplation of spending an hour in an old building.