Quotes About Serenity

There is only one place to find real peace, real harmony. That place is within

I've never had inner turmoil about all this. You find a lot of people these days who cannot stand to be alone. You could lock me up in solitary for weeks on end, and I'd keep myself amused.

When you have all, why torment the depths?

The coolest part about seeing a girl wear something comfortable is the smile that you can just feel coming through from inside her.

There is no greater feeling than hanging out with my dogs, or just walking around the land with our horses. My rescue ranch is is where I feel the most at peace and where I'm reminded of the simple things in life and let the chaos of my crazy work life fade away.

I am convinced that a calm, quiet and harmonious interior can be as beneficial to health as a sensible diet and regular exercise

What Jeremy likes about showers is the way you can stand there, surrounded by water and yet in absolutely no danger of drowning, and not think about things like whether you fucked up on the Spanish assignment, or why your mother is looking so worried.

He had come to a place of great beauty but it had taken the waves and the act of riding them to grant him communion.

During my final London weeks, I'd watched Wolf Hall and marveled at the absolute stillness of Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. In an era of all things Kardashian, it was quite astonishing to see such major and with such little movement. In some ways, I'd have killed for stillness and perhaps only being killed would still me. Still.

parties without a Jameson are like Zen without the echoing yawn.

The water was calm and blue today, and as they walked along the dunes they could see the hump of Poplar Island off the Eastern Shore.

A violência pela violência é não apenas indesejável, além de gerar pânico (e deste modo, a manipulação) também promove a organização militarista (portanto, a hierarquia). Quanto à não-violencia ela implica em uma organização mais aberta e democrática; tende a promover a serenidade e a compaixão e rompe o ciclo miserável do ódio e da vingança.

Do not have any anxiety about anything.

Snow is the only one of us that leaves no tracks.

Balance of emotions is what is important... and remembering to laugh at oneself. Alan Watts used to say that angels, like Daoist Immortals, can fly because they take themselves lightly!

T]hose who are always trying to control everything and eliminate all uncertainties are miserable. For they are fighting against nature. On the other hand, those who come to accept uncertainties as inevitable live lives of peace.

Every day is a good day" does not mean hitting the jackpot everyday. Nor does it mean getting a promise from God or Buddha. Rather it refers to the blissful state in which one can accept reality totally and unconditionally.

Here was this man Tom Guthrie in Holt standing at the back window in the kitchen of his house smoking cigarettes and looking out over the back lot where the sun was just coming up.

Silence is of the gods; only monkeys chatter.

The Earth is a jewel; he hangs 'mid the hair, He gleams 'mid the teeth of my Paradise there, Who tilts back a face that was born to beguile; And his nights are her tresses, his days are her smile.

How magnificent the city is by the June moonlight! — after the streets are empty and silent.

Cuando uno lo ha abandonado todo, puede decirse que le queda la contemplación del vacío.

To let myself be, naked under the sun. To create internal silence. I have pursued this goal through all of life's twists and turns, almost like an idée fixe. This is the small and alarming idea that stands out in the midst of all other ideas and raises the volume of psychic noise, which is already quite considerable.

I am thinking, yes, about mute thunder. The honey of twilight.