Quotes About Serenity

I don't like having noise swirling around me. Loud noises bother me, so I try to stick to the outside of a room. I try to keep the noise in front of me.

I completely believe in peace and non-violence.

Peace is not a thought, not a concept; it is a nonverbal experience.

Flowers are restful to look at. They have neither emotions nor conflicts.

Kauai is kind of my place where I go to get centered. It's always my place to come back and feel normal again.

I don't normally get too excited. I just - yeah, I just try and keep it pretty simple, and that's just my personality, really.

I'm not interested in constantly feeding people tawdriness and confusion and chaos. The world is chaotic as it is. Why feed it to them constantly?

To know nothing is the happiest life.

Having a bunch of cats around is good. If you're feeling bad, you just look at the cats, you'll feel better because they know that everything is just as it is. There's nothing to get excited about. They just know. They're saviours.

Blessed is the man who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed was the ninth beatitude.

I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.

I notice a difference from the moment I meditate.

I quite like sort of being able to walk down the street with no one noticing.

You really disconnect yourself from the world being in the middle of nowhere.

I just love being in the middle of nowhere.

I've always tried to stay out of the fray and not be an object of controversy.

I have always had an obsession with candles.

I sat there and forgot and forgot, until what remained was the river that went by and I who watched. On the river the heat mirages danced with each other and then they danced through each other and then they joined hands and danced around each other. Eventually the watcher joined the river, and there was only one of us. I believe it was the river.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

Learn to relax. Your body is precious, as it houses your mind and spirit. Inner peace begins with a relaxed body.

He had become enveloped in the Indian Summer of the Soul.

In front the sea was spread, a smiling jailer, but even more incorruptible than the frowning mountains.

Trees heavy with birds hold the afternoon up with their hands. — Octavio Paz, from "THE TOMB Of AMIR KHUSRU," A Tale of Two Gardens (New Directions, 1997)

my son, do not aspire for wealth and labor not only to be rich. Strive instead for happiness, to be loved and to love, and most important, to acquire peace of mind and serenity.