Quotes About Serenity

It's kind of like a Zen thing. Like playing the piano, or being a centipede in Heaven.

What's the survival value of obsessing on a sunset?

Three life rules guaranteed to bring you peace in life. 1. Keep your mouth shut. 2. Keep your big mouth shut. 3 Keep your stupid big mouth shut.

I would describe the distinction between city and landscape like this: cities tend to excite and agitate me; they make me feel big or small, self-confident, proud, curious, excited, tense, annoyed... or they intimidate me. But the landscape, if I give it the chance, offers me freedom and serenity. Nature has a different sense of time. Time is big in the landscape while in the city it is condensed, just like the city's space.

Perhaps I am sated with travel, with rambling through many lands; perhaps my youthful ardor is relaxing and cooling, turning naturally to a love of peace, suitable for my occupations. At any rate I am losing my love of roving.

Bir ?ey ümit etmemenin rahatl???ndan ba?ka bar?nacak ruhi bir kö?em kalmam??t?.

In my opinion, walking over moss was as enjoyable as walking barefoot on the beach, if not more so.

It's just another day for you and me in paradise.

You've learned by now to wait without waiting; as if it were dusk look into light falling: in deep relief things even out. Be careless of nothing. See what you see. from "How to See Deer

This is a good place for thinking about your life, a few days in this place.

I love night more than day--she is so lovely; But I love night the most because she brings My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie

Sometimes there is nothing quite

Alone now, in my dark room, The pebbles cease to drop into the rocking pool And gradually the surface quietens Reflecting image of darkest peace and silence. No questions catch the clothes But only as it were a spreading Draws all threads to their finished pattern And you are pieced together bit by bit Set against the evening Lovely and glowing, like a chain of gold from "(A Study in Light and Dark)

Cleansed and newly born, we step from the shower and wrap ourselves in a towel. Mother Earth waits with open arms.

We are alone in the world. I've never enjoyed the rain so much.

Je me souviens d'instants d'une grâce indépassable dans une solitude insondable.

Ne cherche pas ce qui n'existe pas ou n'existe plus

when you live among the flowers, you don't think about the mud.

C'est pas toujours facile, le soir, d'entrer dans une chambre et de s'asseoir au bord du lit pour défaire tranquillement ses lacets et ensuite se glisser dans les draps et regarder le plafond d'un coeur léger.

As I grew older, I frequently turned to the sky for comfort, and being reminded of my slight significance within the context of the vast and enigmatic universe, I was comforted.

Heaven is the place where you think of nowhere else.

Zen is what remains when words and ideas run out. · What we see and smell and hear is real, it reminds us; what we think about that is not. · In much the same spirit, the Japanese aesthetic is less about accumulation than subtraction, so that whatever remains is everything.

Sitting still is a way of falling in love with the world and everyone in it.

I decided that I would no longer seek out holy places in [a] city of temples. I would just let life come to me in all its happy confusion and find the holiness in that.