Quotes About Serenity

I am easy here in a way that I am not easy in other places.

In New Orleans they have mastered the art of the motionless. In

I was not then guilt-ridden about spending afternoons that way, because I still had all the afternoons in the world.

but spend the afternoon in total silence, which involves not only not talking but also not reading, not writing, and not smoking. Even on discussion days, this silence is invoked for regular twenty-minute or hour intervals, a regimen described by one student as "invaluable for clearing your mind of personal hangups" and by Miss Baez as "just about the most important thing about the school.

A somnolence so dense it seemed to inhibit breathing…

But the fact of it was that I liked it out there, a ruin devoid of human vanities, clean of human illusions, an empty place reclaimed by the weather where a woman plays an organ to stop the wind's whining and an old man plays ball with a dog named Duke.

I liked my floaty, superior life more than I could have admitted. I liked the remote spaces I was settling into. I liked looking down from above — the calm of it. I kept this preference to myself. Mostly.

Garden work clears the mind.

At five in the morning the Loire is still and sumptuous with mist. The water is beautiful at that time of the day, cool and magically pale, the sandbanks rising like lost continents. The water smells of night, and here and there a spray of new sunlight makes mica shadows on the surface.

Bonne vent, jolie vent. (Good wind, nice wind, pretty wind.)

There is a place in you that you don't even know exists, where you can simply stand back and watch without feeling any pain.

newborns reminded her of tiny buddhas

Make time to be still.

Find Your Balance.

I want my life to match my work now. I don't want to work and then travel. I want to be at one place.

Balance is so important in our lives. In our busy world, we can give ourselves balance between thinking and feeling.

I am not always happy but when I'm sure you are at peace with me, my heart feels no pain. You are my light.

Silence doesn't mean I am tired sometimes it says I want to be alone .

Be at Peace, not in Pieces.

If you react to what makes you disappointed, it doesn't mean you are fool, but you have the peaceful heart

When it's my time I shall have and I won't complain...Something about being in love with your best friend.

Closing my eyes with a blessfull feeling that i've never been in love and being loved as much as this...

Somethings are just not worth being mad about, it hurts you worse than it does the ones you are mad at, let it go & you will be the one who is free.

Being patient is the key.