Quotes About Serenity

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the whole earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future. Live the actual moment. Only this actual moment is life.

May I be able to live fresh, solid, and free.

The first thing we can do in these situations is to acknowledge internally that the pictures we have in our head, what we think happened, may not be accurate. Our practice is to breathe and walk until we are more calm and relaxed.

The Buddha's Four Noble Truths are: there is suffering; there is a course of action that generates suffering; suffering ceases (i.e., there is happiness); and there is a course of action leading to the cessation of suffering (the arising of happiness).

Breathing in, I know I'm alive." Your eyes still work: "Breathing in, I'm aware of my eyes. Breathing out, I smile to my eyes.

When desire stops, there is no more fear. We are then truly free, peaceful, and happy.

Tomar refugio en nuestra respiración consciente

We need a small space where we can take care of our nervous system and restore our tranquility and peace.

thundering silence, because it's eloquent and powerful.

If we practice conscious breathing, we will calm the turmoil and sorrow in our minds whenever they appear. If at first our practice is not successful, we continue until we see the results. When we see that the practice works, slowly our faith in it grows. Our faith is always based on empirical evidence. We do not believe it just because it has been repeated many times by others.

Therefore the Lotus Sutra is like a cool breeze, a gentle rain, assuaging the stifling atmosphere of contention between the conservatives and the progressives.

Happiness isn't possible without freedom.

A smile makes you a master of yourself.

Tu verdadero hogar es aquello que el Buda llamó la isla interior, el lugar apacible que hay en tu interior. A menudo no te das cuenta de que está ahí, ni siquiera sabes dónde estás, porque hay un ambiente ruidoso tanto dentro como fuera de ti. Necesitas una cierta quietud para descubrir esa isla interior.

we are very good at preparing to live but not very good at living. we can spend 10 yrs to get a diploma or a degree, car, job but have difficulty remembering that we are alive. every breathe we take can be filled with joy, peace, serenity. we only need to be awake and alive in the moment.

Todos tenemos en nuestro interior bloqueos procedentes de la energía de los hábitos. Esta clase de energía inconsciente nos hace repetir la misma conducta miles de veces. Nos empuja a correr de un lado a otro, a estar haciendo siempre alguna cosa, a dejarnos llevar por nuestros pensamientos sobre el pasado o el futuro y a culpar a los demás de nuestro sufrimiento. Bloquea nuestra capacidad de sentirnos serenos y felices en el momento presente.

People say walking on water is a miracle, but to me walking peacefully on earth is the real miracle

Most of us have very scheduled lives and very full calendars. But do we have enough lazy days in our calendar? A lazy day is a day for us to be without any scheduled activities. We just let the day unfold naturally, timelessly. On this day we have a chance to reestablish the balance in ourselves. We may do walking meditation on our own or with a friend, or do sitting meditation in the forest. We might like to read a little or write

Despair is the damp of hell, as joy is the serenity of heaven.

Everything used to get under my skin, and now I'll just be like, 'That's life.' I'm so much more unbothered.

I'm just kind of more, like, I'm gonna take every day as it comes and that's gonna be good enough for me.

For me, I try to stay even keel.

Keep cool my babies.

I consider myself a very secure and calm keeper.