Quotes About Serenity

Cada vez que le ocurría apiadarse y avergonzarse de sí mismo hasta el extremo de que se le llenaran los ojos de lágrimas, se sentía luego deprimido y asqueado. Nunca había sido un sentimental propenso a exhibir sus emociones, siempre había sabido disimular los tumultos que agitaban sus sentimientos tras una máscara de perfecta serenidad

It's wonderful to get lost in a piece of music, she'd said. To forget your name for a while.

To each his own way of calming down.

On se calme comme on peut.

My experience of meditation was different from one day to the next, but a common thread emerged: the way I felt afterward. I began to experience a quiet satisfaction from my daily practice of quieting my mind.

The word that comes to mind is "equanimity." After meditating, I was better able to watch what happened around me without jumping into reactions.

Most of the things we need to be most fully alive never come in busyness. They grow in rest.

One of the most convicting things I have recently come to realize about Jesus is that He was never, not once, in a hurry.

The secret of contentment lay in ignoring many things completely.

And I go out of Father's house and I walk down the street, and it is very quiet even thought it is the middle of the day and I can't hear any noise except birds singing and wind and sometimes buildings falling down in the distance, and if I stand very close to traffic lights I can hear a little click as the colors change.

I like when it rains hard.It sounds like white noise everywhere,which is like silence but not empty.

Water purling between the rocks, weed under the surface like green hair in the wind.

There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it...

her parents had few friends, avoided social engagement, were awkward when they couldn't avoid it, and spent most of their time reading, playing music, doing punishing exercise, or, like crazy Zen monks, sitting for hours in the garden or on the terrace doing absolutely nothing.

The old man did not want to waste energy, because he was beginning to warm up, to feel an oncoming sensation of strength and equanimity. If he didn't upset it, the equanimity would carry him forward in a trance.

Rome was not meant to move, but to be beautiful. The wind was supposed to be the fastest thing here, and the trees, bending and swaying, to slow it down. Now

Breathe like a fallen leaf and think of nothing. Just breathe and let your heart and mind be carried, however briefly, by the spirit you can't quite see.

The gift of patience opens when our body, heart, and mind slow enough to move in unison.

Robert calmly, like an Oriental sage himself, treated the situation as if it were a koan, a riddle to be entered until its very assumptions shifted.

The mountains—Tinker and Brushy, McAfee's Knob and Dead Man—are a passive mystery, the oldest of all. Theirs is the one simple mystery of creation from nothing, of matter itself, anything at all, the given. Mountains are giant, restful, absorbent. You can heave your spirit into a mountain and the mountain will keep it, folded, and not throw it back as some creeks will. The creeks are the world with all its stimulus and beauty; I live there. But the mountains are home.

Never trouble trouble, till trouble troubles you'? The wise words

The moon may drive men mad but it can calm a savage girl, for it is cool, precise, it is lucid.

James discovered that there is nothing so congenial to lucid thought as a clear view of the sea. It aired his mind, tuned his nerves and scoured his soul. He determined always to live in sight of it.

Bello es lo que se contempla