Quotes About Serenity

con un gesto apacible, un movimiento de la cabellera, un solo y lento destello de la mirada dominaba el espacio y permanecen tranquilas como en el centro de un ciclón, al parecer ignorantes de la propia fuerza de atracción, que arrastra hacia ellas de modo irresistible los anhelos y las almas tanto de hombre como mujeres.

People left him alone. And that was all he wanted.

He had withdrawn solely for his own personal pleasure, only to be near to himself. No longer distracted by anything external, he basked in his own existence and found it splendid.

comfortable room, knowing

It's great being dead.

It is said that the only thing deeper than the sleep of the just is the sleep of the just after, but

silence, simplicity and humility . . . the only proper state for the artist as for the human being

Finally, by the sea, where God is everywhere, I gradually calmed.

Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.

You can never pay too much for peace of mind.

I got some coffee and stood looking at the sky.

I had to keep swatting flies away, but that didn't bother me. Nothing bothered me, not even the things that bothered me.

Each time he took a walk, he felt as though he were leaving himself behind, and by giving himself up to the movement of the streets, by reducing himself to a seeing eye, he was able to escape the obligation to think, and this, more than anything else, brought him a measure of peace, a salutary emptiness within.

I want to talk about happiness and well being, about those rare, unexpected moments when the voice in your head goes silent and you feel at one with the world.

Leer por puro placer, por la hermosa quietud que te envuelve cuando resuenan en la cabeza las palabras de un autor.

On his best walks, he was able to feel that he was nowhere. And this, finally, was all he ever asked of things: to be nowhere.

Estaba buscando un sitio tranquilo para morir

All the happiness of man stems from one thing only: that he is incapable of staying quietly in his room.

There's a certain quixotic calm to an empty school hallway.

This withdrawal from the day's turmoil into creative silence is not a luxury, a fad, or a futility. It is a necessity, because it tries to provide the conditions wherein we are able to yield ourselves to intuitive leadings, promptings, warnings, teachings, and counsels and also to the inspiring peace of the soul. It dissolves mental tensions and heals negative emotions.

That deep silence has a melody of its own, a sweetness unknown amid the harsh discords of the world's sounds.

Now an extraordinary and helpful fact is that by making Mind the object of our attention, not only does the serenity which is its nature begin to well up of its own accord but its steady unchanging character itself helps spontaneously to repel all disturbing thoughts.

A half-hour, stolen from the day's activities or the night's rest, set apart for meditation in his own house, will in the end yield a good result.

When the mind enters into this imageless and thoughtless state, there is nothing in it to resist the union with divine consciousness.