Quotes About Serenity

If one endure In purity of thought, joy follows him As his own shadow—sure.

In all human affairs there are efforts, and there are results, and the strength of the effort is the measure of the result. Chance is not. Gifts, powers, material, intellectual, and spiritual possessions are the fruits of effort; they are thoughts completed, objects accomplished, visions realized. The Vision that you glorify in your mind, the Ideal that you enthrone in your heart—this you will build your life by, this you will become. SERENITY

That amazing poise of character, which we call serenity is the closing lesson of subculture, the fruitage of the soul. It is treasured as know-how, greater to be preferred than gold—yea, than even nice gold. How insignificant mere cash searching for appears in assessment with a serene existence—a existence that dwells in the ocean of Truth, below the waves, beyond the attain of tempests, in the Eternal Calm!

That exquisite poise of character, which we call serenity is the last lesson of culture, the fruitage of the soul.

To know that Love is universal, supreme, all-sufficing; to be freed from the trammels of evil; to be quit of the inward unrest; to know that all men are striving to realize the Truth each in his own way; to be satisfied, sorrowless, serene; this is peace; this is gladness; this is immortality; this is Divinity; this is the realization of selfless Love.

humanity surges with uncontrolled passion, is tumultuous with ungoverned grief, is blown about by anxiety and doubt only the wise man, only he whose thoughts

To wish the best for all people; to find the good in everything; to be content in all circumstances—such thoughts are the portal to heaven.

The wise man understands and understanding, he ceases from all bitterness and accusation.

If one would find peace, he must come out of passion.

Happiness is mental harmony; unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Say unto your heart, Peace, be still!

Suffering ceases for him who is pure.

Out of silence comes the greatest creativity. Not when we are rushing and panicking.

In order to be creative you have to be healthy physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually.

The ability to ignore the instant chatter of the mind and to recognize there is something beyond it. There is wisdom beyond it, from the fountain of silence. This is the only way to choose yourself.

The sunlight came into the room with the peacefulness one remembers from rooms in one's early childhood—a sunlight encountered later only in one's dreams.

Then, we were still. We did not move, because we could not. We held each other so close that we might indeed have been one body.

We moved in a silence which was music from everywhere.

It will all be the same, only I will be stiller

There are times when we stop, we sit still. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things...but there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen, and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

I send you my laughter. May Buddha bless thee and thine.

He had long since discovered that peaceful sleep could provide the answer to most puzzles, and if not, what did it really matter? Wasn't life just a dewdrop within a dewdrop?

Push not the river; it will flow on its own accord.   —Polish Proverb