Quotes About Serenity

The key to creating a home meditation practice is to create a space where the busyness stops.

Her smile was as fresh as a half-opened lotus. Siddhartha bowed and looked into her eyes, saying in a quiet voice, "Thank you, princess.

A single wise word bringing peace to the listener is worth more than a thousand speeches of empty words.

In what spirit is this explanation given? Without being caught up in signs, just according to things as they are, without agitation.

A Buddha is a person who has no more business to do and isn't looking for anything. In doing nothing, in simply stopping, we can live freely and be true to ourselves, and our liberation will contribute to the liberation of all beings.

People ask me, "Why do you do walking meditation?" The best answer I can give is, "Because I like it.

Freedom from desire is the best of states.

Place your left hand, palm side up, in your right palm. Let all the muscles in your hands, fingers, arms, and legs relax. Let go of everything.

shortest distance possible, finally reaching the bottom, the point of perfect rest.

that your and my and the world's hoped-for outward peace depends most fully not on the peace we seek without but on the peace we establish within.

Let it Be, Let it Be, Let it Be, Let it Be, Whisper words of wisdom, Let it Be.

Turn off your mind, relax, and float down stream. It is not dying, it is not dying.

Dusk—of a summer night.

What grace I have is enough.

Sometimes I sets and thinks, and sometimes I just sets." The former is easy enough, and is what even an accomplished loafer has to go through before he reaches the latter and more blissful state. It takes years of practice to relax sufficiently to be able to "just set." I'd learned it years ago. But

When we walk like (we are rushing), we print anxiety and sorrow on the earth. We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the earth... Be aware of the contact between your feet and the earth. Walk as if you are kissing the earth with your feet.

Peace is present right here and now, in ourselves and in everything we do and see. Every breath we take, every step we take, can be filled with peace, joy, and serenity. The question is whether or not we are in touch with it. We need only to be awake, alive in the present moment.

Root out the violence in your life, and learn to live compassionately and mindfully. Seek peace. When you have peace within, real peace with others is possible.

Your breathing should flow gracefully, like a river, like a watersnake crossing the water, and not like a chain of rugged mountains or the gallop of a horse. To master our breath is to be in control of our bodies and minds. Each time we find ourselves dispersed and find it difficult to gain control of ourselves by different means, the method of watching the breath should always be used.

May our heart's garden of awakening bloom with hundreds of flowers.

You would not cry if you knew that by looking deeply into the rain you would still see the cloud.

Happiness is available. Please help yourself to it.

Letting go gives us freedom and freedom is the only condition for happiness

If you walk with true awareness of every step, without having a goal to get anywhere, happiness will arise naturally. You don't need to look for happiness.