Quotes About Serenity

ALRIGHT then, be a Zen monk. But you wait and see. You'll be happy and bright. You'll laugh. People will envy and ridicule you. You won't care. (sigh)

Into the void of silence, into the empty space of nothing, the joy of life is unfurled.

Gardening is a kind of disease. It infects you, you cannot escape it. When you go visiting, your eyes rove about the garden; you interrupt the serious cocktail drinking because of an irresistible impulse to get up and pull a weed.

The answer, I propose, is that aging is an ideal time for the cultivation of the inner life: a time for spiritual practice. Why

You just gotta use the sunset as a reset button and start over in the morning with every chance you get to open your eyes.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

I used to get so nervous and upset at stuff... I'd always be angry.

Conscious breath control is a useful tool for achieving a relaxed, clear state of mind.

I like simplicity. I like using natural sources. I like images to look natural - as though somebody sitting in a room by a lamp is being lit by that lamp.

Anyone who spends time on the road knows there's something special about being in the middle of Utah or Nebraska - you sit with it, and there's a peace about it. You can go left or right, and it opens up all kinds of doors. You take your own path.

The language of excitement is at best picturesque merely. You must be calm before you can utter oracles.

One of the greatest sounds of them all - and to me it is a sound - is utter, complete silence.

My favorite place to vacation is anyplace by the ocean.

My life is scattered and busy. I think of my home as a resort. When I step through the door, I feel relaxed. I almost feel like I've taken a vacation.

My idea of a vacation is staying home and doing short day hikes, floating the river and things like that.

My favorite vacation spot is a beautiful beach. I've been to many, many beaches on many continents: Mombasa, the Dominican Republic, the Bahamas, Bermuda, Barbados, Mexico and the U.S. What's beautiful about beach communities is for whatever reason, they feel like vacation to me.

All vacations can come down to a few little moments - what do your remember when you're alone, totally relaxed and taken out of yourself to appreciate this other world.

I really enjoyed staying at an encampment at the top of a hill in the Samburu Reserve in Kenya. You reach it on a small plane; there is no electricity, no city noises and you sleep and shower under the Milky Way, with moths fluttering around a kerosene lamp, knowing that there are elephants and lions roaming free in the valley.

Sun Valley is one of my favorite spots.

It's such a waste of mental energy to be furious that something isn't the way you want it to be. Fighting life is what causes problems. When you can accept life on life's terms, you pave the way for a measure of peace that you miss otherwise," she said.

Seekers are also often calm and quiet and have a natural inclination to being alone, and to working on their own. They

Goodness is weakness, pleasantness is poisonous, serenity is mediocrity, and kindness is for losers.

In fact, the room was so quiet you might have heard a drop of paint splash.

They continue to eat porridge and take long walks in the forest.