Quotes About Serenity

Lou entró, molesta por perturbar aquel silencio precioso y afelpado. Puso agua a hervir, arañando nerviosamente el cazo con el cucharón. Se vistió, consciente del chasquido de sus ropas. Se calzó los zapatos y oyó el roce de los cordones al atárselos. El cuchillo de la mantequilla rascó la tostada. Removió el café con una tintineante cuchara. No todo el mundo, pensó, está hecho para convivir con el silencio

I wished there was some kind of switch on my brain. That I could turn it off in the same way that I could turn off the television. Just click it off and immediately empty my mind of all these images and worrying thoughts. And simply leave a blank screen. Or if I could just remove my head and put it on the bedside table and forget about it until morning. And then attach it again when I needed it.

We receive His peace when we ask Him for it. We keep His peace by extending it to others. Those are the keys and there are no others.

Self-Realization Fellowship seemed like training. It was the training ground for finding a sense of peace in myself. Because that's my job. It's no one else's.

I always say centered food equals centered behavior.

Learn to ignore everything

I don't want to be the person who gasps in fear whenever she hears the sound of a doorbell or a phone. I just want to lose myself in these hills, in the river winding west to the city of bridges.

Dying peacefully means to avoid any immediate cause for anger, fear, or strong desire.

Soup puts the heart at ease, calms down the violence of hunger, eliminates the tension of the day, and awakens and refines the appetite.

Peace prevails when food suffices

The smell of cooking food is often a calming one.

"I meditate." That's like saying "I eat." Think of all the food there is! And there are almost as many varieties of mediation.

Everything is ended if you forgive and forget.

Inner peace can be reached only when we practice forgiveness.

Everything is just as it needs to be. And if we would forgive, our minds and hearts would open and we could see another possibility.

I rest in the light of forgiveness.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

I could see peace instead of this.

Be content with what thou hast received and smooth thy frowning forehead.

Here is my secret: I don't mind what happens.

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

After a few years of meditation practice we can even learn how to occasionally ignore ourselves. And what relief that can be!

Where else can you be as free as by yourself in the middle of nowhere, or in the middle of the ocean, or on the peak of a mountain. Adventure is freedom.

Those... who find delight in freedom from attachment in the renunciation of clinging, free from the inflow of thoughts, they are like shining lights, having reached final liberation in the world.