Quotes About Serenity

As we practice meditation we are bringing forth ease, presence, compassion, wisdom & trust.

When you feel a peaceful joy, that's when you are near truth.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace. Such is the teaching of the Sages.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

For those whose heart and whose attention is immersed in the truth, they don't need to have to worry.

That which is false troubles the heart, but truth brings joyous tranquility.

I'm just an old hippie. You know, peace and love.

if she hadn't been at peace, then at least she wasn't at war with herself.

The silence that followed was lovely, the silence of flowers blooming.

In solitude we don't reject the world but have the space to think our thoughts.

All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling.

All good New Orleanians go to look at the Mississippi at least once a day. At night it is like creeping into a dark bedroom to look at a sleeping child--something of that sort--gives you the same warm nice feeling, I mean.

Something seemed to open out. There was a little inner world created, always, every day, being re-created, and in it there was a kind of new security.

There's nothing better than doing nothing.

Every moment you can meet your difficult feelings with kindness is a moment of peace.

The relative rest states—a blank mental screen, a defocused external gaze, physical relaxation, emotional neutrality, physical silence, mental quiet—may begin to pervade your sensory experience as the result of noticing vanishings.

Each day is peppered with a holy glow.

The myriad of complex meanings is simplified into a tetrad of basic states: mental image without any accompanying mental talk, mental talk without any accompanying mental image, image and talk at the same time, or absence of both image and talk (a moment of total mental tranquility).

stand bustle or hustle, but she could only operate when things were

If anything interferes with my inner peace, I will walk away. Arguments with family members. All that stuff. None of it matters.

I have continued to come here for that kind of aloneness, so very different from being lonely with someone.

May the stars shine bright above you, May the sun warm you, And the world hold you softly. May your thoughts and needs be as one, For all time

May the stars shine bright above you, May the sun warm you, And the world hold you softly. May your thoughts and needs be as one, For all time, Your joys and conquests as one, In this world and forever. Then all the cats gathered around closer, clowder cats and village cats leaping up on the boulder, purring

To die is more important than trying to be alive. When we try to be alive, we have trouble. Rather than trying to be alive or active, if we can be calm and die or fade away into emptiness, then naturally we will be all right.