Quotes About Serenity

If you learn to go beyond the jabbering of your mind, and can go to the deeper aspects of your consciousness, then body, breath, and mind will not come in your way.

In truth, to attain to interior peace, one must be willing to pass through the contrary to peace.

Happiness, therefore, is measured by the tranquillity of one's mind.

True meditation gives us, as it were, wings for flight to a higher realm and thus detaches us from terrestrial fetters.

Meditation is an effort in the beginning. Later on it becomes habitual and gives bliss, joy and peace

Practice meditation regularly. Meditation leads to eternal bliss. Therefore meditate, meditate.

Still the bubbling mind; herein lies freedom and bliss eternal.

Complete peace equally reigns between two mental waves.

You need not worry or make yourself sleepless about the world; it will go on without you.

The ideal man is he who, in the midst of the greatest silence and solitude, finds the intensest activity, and in the midst of the intensest activity finds the silence and solitude of the desert.

When he has become perfectly satisfied, he has no more cravings

He who in the midst of intense activity finds himself in the greatest calmness, and in the greatest peace finds intense activity, that is the greatest [Yogi as well as the wisest man]" (note 2).

A man is said to be [illumined] if his will has become firm, if his mind is not disturbed by misery, if he does not desire any happiness, if he is free of all [attachment], of all fear, of all anger

Sometimes, there is not a lot of pressure, so you can relax.

One of the best things to do sometimes is simply to be.

Sometimes I get lonely, but it's nice to be alone.

There are portions of Malibu that are very remote; it's like living in the country somewhere.

I mean, I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. It's somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

I love Central Park. I feel like I am somewhere else.

The longer one is alone, the easier it is to hear the song of the earth.

I live on eight acres out in the country in Nashville, and it gets creepy and foggy. It's the best atmosphere to write songs.

Nothing ever goes to plan. As soon as you are OK with that, everything is much easier.

You learn you have to accept the way things are, and the sooner you accept them, the sooner you become at peace with them, and then the things start to get better.