Quotes About Serenity

It's helpful to always remind yourself that meditation is about opening and relaxing withwhatever arises, without picking and choosing.

Tú eres el cielo. Todo lo demás es solo el clima

la meditación nos ofrece la oportunidad de mantener una atención abierta y compasiva hacia todo lo que ocurre.

When your aspiration is to lighten up, you begin to have a sense of humor. Your serious state of mind keeps getting popped. In addition to a sense of humor, a basic support for a joyful mind is curiosity, paying attention, taking an interest in the world around you. Happiness is not required, but being curious without a heavy judgmental attitude helps. If you are judgmental, you can even be curious about that.

One thing that is very helpful is to cultivate an overall sense of relaxation while you are doing the meditation.

Inner peace begins the moment you choose not to allow another person or event to control your emotions.

He did not want to be young again -- that time had had particular and transcendent horrors -- but the thought of being any older filled him with panic. He could not imagine finding tranquility of soul in old age; if he could only be allowed to mark time for a while all might yet be well, one might suddenly achieve equilibrium, certainty, serenity. There would still be possibilities. Hopes.

As he rested in the great hollow shell of tranquility and light, listening to its silence, it dawned upon him that 'empty' was the wrong word for this place. It was as full as could be: full of silence, full of light, full of peace. There

Spiritual rest comes through faith.

My happiest moments are those when I think nothing, want nothing, and dream nothing, being lost in a torpor like some accidental plant, like mere moss growing on life's surface. I savour without bitterness this absurd awareness of being nothing, this foretaste of death and extinction.

He felt at peace only in the hour before dawn, when the darkness seemed to give way slowly to a mist, and it was at this hour that he would wake and sit by his window.

The presence of water invites song and music; there is something about its flow, and the sound of its flow, that elicits other melodies.

He had created a desert, and called it peace.

The sea looks the same after the boats are gone.

La agradable sensación de no tener que hablar, de dejar que pase el silencio general, mirando el mar u otra cosa, o incluso nada.

En el cielo había nubes nocturnas, claras y teñidas por la luz amarillenta de la ciudad, con perspectivas negras hacia las estrellas. El viento era tan débil que en los árboles no se movían más que las hojas, y solamente las que estaban al final de las ramas.

Alistair je nakratko zatvorio o?i i sjetio se ne?ega što mu je otac rekao, re?enice koju kao dijete nikad nije razumio: Tišina je snaga.

I have all the time in the world," she said. "Literally.

Transfixed by the bright gaze of a lizard, I become calm. This stone on which the lizard lies was under the sea when lizards first came into being, and now the flood is wearing it away, to return it once again into the oceans.

All animals and wayfarers are Tukten's friends, and listen to him carefully, yet he rarely speaks except when spoken to, and never seems to speak too much; without obtruding, he becomes the centre of each situation, so naturally does he belong where the moment finds him.

although I seldom knew what the date was. It didn't seem important. I was turning into a contented vegetable, maintaining sporadic contact with real life through telephone conversations with people in faraway offices.

there is nothing to be done. only accept it... and hurt.

Satchidananda.

Three aspects of Zen have been critical to me as a leader: 1. GIVING UP CONTROL Suzuki writes, "If you want to obtain perfect calmness in your zazen, you should not be bothered by the various images you find in your mind. Let them come and let them go. Then they will be under control.