Quotes About Serenity

I often like to enjoy the beauty of a beautiful book.

I'm tired, can't think of anything and want only to lay my face in your lap, feel your hand on my head and remain like that through all eternity.

Desire nothing except desirelessness. Hope for nothing except to rise above all hopes. Want nothing and you will have everything.

I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.

Is there something inside of you that is favoring peace? Because if there is, then congratulations: you are a human being. You have just reached, and felt, your most fundamental want.

Happiness is when there is no hunger or want at all, when we're completely free of all hunger, desire, and want.

There are times in my life when I just want to be by myself.

The curious thing about fishing is you never want to go home. If you catch something, you can't stop. If you don't catch anything, you hate to leave in case something might bite.

Detach yourself from all that makes your mind restless. Renounce all that disturbs its peace. If you want peace, deserve it. By being a slave to your desires and fears, you disturb peace.

How wonderful to go beyond wanting and fearing in your relationships. Love does not want or fear anything.

I tell you one thing - if you want peace of mind, don not fault with others.

The River... It's my world, and I don't want any other. What it hasn't got is not worth having, and what it doesn't know is not worth knowing. Lord! the times we've had together!

Old pond— a frog jumps in the sound of water

Beautiful dreamer, wake unto me,Starlight and dewdrop are waiting for thee.

For the sake of God, boy, let go of all this obsessive worry and fretting. You are powerless over such a mess." (Quote from Father Bede)

The whole of Chapter Six in the Bhagavad Gita is devoted to Krishna's teachings on this practice: "Whenever the mind wanders, restless and diffuse in its search for satisfaction without, lead it within; train it to rest in the Self," instructs Krishna. "When meditation is mastered, the mind is unwavering like the flame of a lamp in a windless place.

If you see those pretty things that nature likes to show Remember all those seals that sing And leave them there to grow.

Sometimes, the most profound of awakenings come wrapped in the quietest of moments.

I was calm, no one wants the kind of calm I was.

As you sit on the hillside, or lie prone under the trees of the forest, or sprawl wet-legged by a mountain stream, the great door, that does not look like a door, opens.

To me, as a lover of Nature, the waving of a tree conveys thoughts which are never conveyed to me except by seeing a tree wave.

If good happens, good; if bad happens, good.

She walked along beneath a sky of bird's-egg blue

When you connect to the silence within you, that is when you can make sense of the disturbance going on around you.