Quotes About Serenity

el silencio desde donde la música es posible

Con tan poca cosa puede un hombre ser feliz», pensó. «Ni siquiera un beso. Con tan poco. La taza de té preparada con su mínima liturgia, un insecto dormido sobre un libro, un perfume viejo. Sí, casi la nada…»

Los libros van siendo el único lugar de la casa donde todavía se puede estar tranquilo.

Solitude should not be a burden, something that is suffered, that is borne involuntarily, or in which refuge is taken by force of circumstances, but rather, a natural, simple, and free disposition. In a text [Suttanip?ta] we read: 'Solitude is called wisdom, he who is alone will find that he is happy'.

Drop Thy still dews of quietness, Till all our strivings cease; Take from our souls the strain and stress, And let our ordered lives confess The beauty of Thy peace.

It was so cold in this garden of the dead. Even in the sunshine, even draped in its mantle of serenity with its brightly coloured flowers, its burnished brass plaques and symbols of faith, the closeness of death was overpowering and claustrophobic.

If I know from the start that I'm going to be alone, I'm not lonely. It doesn't bother me.

The parlor may have its charms, but the Japanese toilet truly is a place of spiritual repose. It always stands apart from the main building, at the end of a corridor, in a grove fragrant with leaves and moss. No words can describe that sensation as one sits in the dim light, basking in the faint glow reflected from the shoji, lost in meditation or gazing out at the garden.

The best ones not only hold their own when faced with the noise of the world, they silence it.

Meditation is one attempt! to be above the thinking of the mind, to Realize the inexplicable stage of awareness."

If we want to start finding GOD, with a capital G, as manifested in holy virtues like love, kindness, patience, and serenity, then we will have to recalibrate our inner compass.

He breathed once more, holding the air in his chest, as if it were not air but something more--a sweet taste of freedom, of all cares lifted, everything over and done.

And isn't silence, in its way, a good sign? That everything is well, that the ship is still steaming safely away from shore?

Perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

I was in a room of the bluest light—pure blue, cerulean blue, the blue the sky would be if it were married to the sea.

So perhaps the greatest worry of all was that one day you would realize that all the worries of your life amounted to one thing: the desire to just stop worrying.

What were words, when all I'd had were mountains for company?

There is real comfort in being quiet.

It is only when we silent the blaring sounds of our daily existence that we can finally hear the whispers of truth that life reveals to us, as it stands knocking on the doorsteps of our hearts.

Just breathe. Ten tiny breaths … Seize them. Feel them. Love them.

A quiet life," Stheno replied. "You wouldn't think it was a lot to ask.

It's the way my mind works, when it works at all. Things to do today: settle down, achieve serenity, live happily ever after. Tick the box and move on.

With her hair and freckles she was dark gold like the bracken on the slope behind her; she fitted. He stared past her into the water of the lake, and saw it was very clear, and deep; sunlight coming through the trees sent spears into it, gold again, another world, shining above and losing itself below in darkness.

Can't you see? Why do you try to catch the flashes in the sky? Why don't you be the sky, rising above everything, silent, watching, waiting?