Quotes About Serenity

She slowly sinks into gentleness

Few experiences can match the heady pleasure of trailing one's hand gently through the cool smoothness of water, of feeling the surging movement, the gentle increase of pressure and caress between the fingers with each pull of the oars.

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

the secret of wisdom is detachment without withdrawal.

In serene souls there is no jesting. Jesting indicates a loss of equilibrium; it is both a succession of disturbances and the center's restoration. The sharpest wit has passion. The condition of the dissolution of all proportion - despair and spiritual death - is most fearfully witty.

Equanimity is a perfect, unshakable balance of mind, rooted in insight. But in its perfection and unshakable nature equanimity is not dull, heartless and frigid. Its perfection is not due to an emotional "emptiness", but to a "fullness" of understanding, to its being complete in itself. Its unshakable nature is not the immovability of a dead, cold stone, but the manifestation of the highest strength.

The winds of change can often blow with calmness and grace.

Everything is so soft here,' he said, 'so easy...' 'I know

Maybe sometimes it takes more courage not to fight. -Makino

If you can do something to change the circumstances, why be upset about it? And if you cannot do anything to change the circumstances, why be upset about it?

True peace cannot be achieved by force or by merely invoking the word "peace." It can only be attained by training the mind and learning to cultivate inner peace. Peace is a calm and gentle state of mind. - 17th Karmapa

Each soul must meet the morning sun, the new sweet earth and the Great Silence alone.

The ideal lover of flowers is he who visits them in their native haunts, like Taoyuenming who sat before a broken bamboo fence in converse with the wild chrysanthemum, or Linwosing, losing himself amid mysterious fragrance as he wandered in the twilight among the plum-blossoms of the Western Lake. 'Tis said that Chowmushih slept in a boat so that his dreams might mingle with those of the lotus..

A cluster of summer trees, A bit of the sea, A pale evening moon. It is not difficult to gather his meaning. He wished to create the attitude of a newly-awakened soul still lingering amid shadowy dreams of the past, yet bathing in the sweet unconsciousness of a mellow spiritual light, and yearning for the freedom that lay in the expanse beyond.

For once I was satisfied, which is really all anyone can ask for.

Perhaps that's the whole point of prayer—to think to yourself in peace, to want nothing, to ask for nothing, but simply to sort out your own mind. That should be enough.

looked out of the window. Dawn was breaking, and idle snowflakes were gradually starting to fill the nothingness. They were falling slowly, weaving their way through the air and spinning on their own axis like feathers.

Czasami, gdy Cz?owiek do?wiadcza Gniewu, wszystko wydaje si? oczywiste i proste. Gniew zaprowadza porz?dek, pokazuje ?wiat w oczywistym skrócie, w Gniewie powraca te? dar Jasno?ci Widzenia, o który trudno w innych stanach.

As I stood there, gazing at the pulpits, I could turn around at any moment to take gentle hold of the sharp, jagged line of the horizon as if it were a strand of hair. To look beyond it.

She is happy, because she doesn't have a single thought in her head, a single care, a single expectation or hope. It's a good feeling.

Why hate, and struggle, and fight? Let is be as it would.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow,Or by the lazy Scheldt, or wandering Po.

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.

Take a music bath once or twice a week for a few seasons, and you will find that it is to the soul what the water bath is to the body.