Quotes About Serenity

I looked up at the sky; the pure, wonderful stars were still there, burning

There's the hum of the bee drone two blocks away the racket of it you'd think it was right over the roof, when the bee drone swirls nearer and nearer (gulp again) you retreat into the cabin and wait, maybe they got a message to come and see you all two thousand of em- but gettin used to the bee drone finally which seem to happen like a big party once a week- and so everything is eventually marvelous.

Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.

little absent from everything in the way of a Zen Master actually who realizes that everything is indifferent anyway

the first sip is joy the second is gladness, the third is serenity, the fourth is madness, the fifth is ecstasy.

Oh my God, sociability is just a big smile and a big smile is nothing but teeth, I wish I could just stay up here and rest and be kind.

The sun goes down long and red. All the magic names of the valley unrolled—Manteca, Madera, all the rest. Soon it got dusk, a grapy dusk, a purple dusk over tangerine groves and long melon fields; the sun the color of pressed grapes, slashed with burgundy red, the fields the color of love and Spanish mysteries. I stuck my head out the window and took deep breaths of the fragrant air. It was the most beautiful of all moments

the sudden vast diamond silence of the forest

the waves—the woods are dreaming

why not I be like the Void, inexhaustibly fertile, beyond serenity, beyond even gladness, just Old Jack

Yeah man, you know to me a mountain is a Buddha. Think of the patience, hundreds of thousands of years just sitting there bein perfectly perfectly silent and like praying for all living creatures in that silence and just waitin for us to stop all our frettin and foolin.

Findes der en bestemt og tydelig lære der kan gives alle levende væsener?" var det spørgsmål man sikkert stillede den snehvide Dipankara med de buskede øjenbryn, og hans svar var diamantens brølende stilhed.

Newton, Iowa, it was, where I'd taken that dawn walk in 1947. In the afternoon we crossed drowsy old Davenport again and the low-lying Mississippi in her sawdust bed; then Rock Island, a few minutes of traffic, the sun reddening, and sudden sights of lovely little tributary rivers flowing softly among the magic trees and greeneries of mid-American Illinois. It was beginning to look like the soft sweet East again; the great dry West was accomplished and done.

Monsanto will say "That's all there is to it, take it easy, everything's okay, dont take things too serious, it's bad enough as it is without you going the deep end over imaginary conceptions just like you always said yourself

there was a most beautiful small lake unknown to the eyes of most men in this world

The vast diamond silence of the forest

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

There are two places where I can completely relax: in nature and by the piano.

I believe myself to be the type of person who does not complicate his life. I have always lived my life without dramatizing things, whether the good things that have happened to me or the bad. I simply live those moments.

It never got ugly, although it got a bit strange at times.

I have an all-black Mahalo ukulele - it's like my baby. It has brought me so much peace and comfort.

I thoroughly enjoy a good hot bath. That is my ultimate luxury.

For an artist or an entertainer, it's the ultimate when you can go to the forest when you're done your work and escape.

On some days, I just want to sit under a shooting umbrella in a sunny outdoor location all over again.