Quotes About Serenity

Para qué más ruido afuera con el que llevábamos adentro!

En silencio la realidad pesa menos.

There's this sky I know

I'm floating. The absence of pain is powerful.

There's this sky I like.

Listen to the wind blow, watch the sun rise.

The wind wrinkled the dark lake and my thoughts as it swept on the clouds, chopped them up with its hatchet; between them you could just glimpse the Last Judgement, finding each of us guilty of nothing.

Do you know what it means to have a whole day ahead of you, a day you can call your own?

When you are undisturbed by a situation it falls away of its own weight.

Affirm: I am now immune to all hurts and frustrations. The Power within is perfect peace and perfect poise.

When you can no longer be disturbed, all disturbance will disappear from the external. "When your eyes have seen your teachers, your teachers disappear.

The inharmonious situation comes from some inharmony within man himself. When there is, in him, no emotional response to an inharmonious situation, it fades away forever, from his pathway.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

There are, however, other kinds of meditation. One of them is known as active meditation. In this form of meditation, one relaxes the body and enters

silence usually taught him more than the company of others.

Just as there are several solitudes, so there are several silences.

You don't walk to kill time but to welcome it, to pick off its leaves and petals one by one, second by second.

suele decir que caminar te «vacía la mente». Al contrario: andar te llena el espíritu de una consistencia distinta. No la de las ideas o las doctrinas, no en el sentido de una cabeza atiborrada de frases, citas y teorías, sino llena de la presencia del mundo. Esa presencia, al andar, se ha ido depositando en el alma a lo largo de todo el día,

Lesson no. 5: Sometimes happiness is not knowing the whole story

The best advice is found on the pillow', he

those who believed in the Good Lord, for whom death was just a journey, and it didn't make them sad at all

I used to lie between cool, clean sheets at night after I'd had a bath, after I had washed my hair and scrubbed my knuckles and finger-nails and teeth. Then I could lie quite still in the dark with my face to the window with the trees in it, and talk to God.

Besides, woods made sense. Woods were home.

I am writing in the garden. To write as one should of a garden one must not write outside it or merely somewhere near it, but in the garden.