Quotes About Serenity

Then the good land did again its healing work and the sun shone on him and healed him and the warm winds of summer wrapped him about with peace.

He could have been lonely except that he was never lonely, since he had always been alone.

and comforted by his greater wisdom he fell asleep again deeply in the darkness and the stillness.

island of Komudo

If you would only stop thinking, you would be much happier.

All was well with the land and when all was well with the land then everything was well.

Maybe the most important teaching is to lighten up and relax. It's such a huge help in working with our crazy mixed-up minds to remember that what we're doing is unlocking a softness that is in us and letting it spread. We're letting it blur the sharp corners of self-criticism and complaint.

Be curious. Welcome groundlessness. Lighten up and relax. Offer chaos a cup of tea.

Meditation is a totally nonviolent, nonaggressive occupation.

You come back to that breath over and over, through boredom, edginess, fear, and well-being. This perseverance and repetition—when done with honesty, a light touch, humor, and kindness—is its own reward.

Pema Chödrön

Cutting our expectations for a cure is a gift we can give ourselves. There is no cure for hot and cold. They will go on forever.

In order to work with difficult outer circumstances, we need to gather our inner strength. If even ten or twenty minutes of meditation a day helps us to do this, let's go for it!

Good or bad, happy or sad, all thoughts vanish into emptiness like the imprint of a bird in the sky.

The trick is not getting caught in hope and fear.

you are the sky. everything else - it's just the weather.

There is, however, no need to be a prophet of doom or for us to go around living in constant dread. Our situation is definitely workable. By learning not to bite the hook now, with the little annoyances of an ordinary day, we'll be preparing ourselves to work with whatever lies ahead with compassion and wisdom.

En la meditación enseñamos a dejar que la piedra, la emoción, caiga sin producir ondas.

You are the sky. Everything else is just the weather.

As Leonard Cohen once said about the benefits of many years of meditation, "The less there was of me, the happier I got.

Anger is a wasted emotion.

I try to get centered: Watching white moon face The stars never feel anger Blah, blah, blah, the end

A turn or two I'll walk To still my beating mind.

There are two things a person should never be angry at, what they can help, and what they cannot.