Serenity Quotes - Page 2

In your serenity there is a clarity, strength and correctness that is beyond the petty scuffles of the moment - a greater truth. It is the truth of who you are; beautiful, calm, secure, open, willing and safe.

Also at times, on the surface of streams,
Water?bubbles form
And grow and burst
And have no meaning at all
Except that they’re water?bubbles
Growing and bursting.

Out yonder they may curse, revile, and torture one another, defile all the human instincts, make a shambles of creation (if it were in their power), but here, no, here, it is unthinkable, here there is abiding peace, the peace of God, and the serene security created by a handful of good neighbors living at one with the creature world.

Just take my hand, lead, dance with me...and I will simply follow the blueness of the water, the white waves rolling free...where the earth beneath my feet and stars make my heart whole again...in long and priceless moments of shared solitude...

The serenity of the lulling ocean is a wondrous thing to behold..more precious than the gems coveted and covered in platinum or gold...

The best listeners are often those with the quietest heart.

What if making peace with our warring hearts - peace within - is the first step to world peace?

In an age of bombs
guzzling blood, skylarks merge peace
with thought and action.

If you have time to chatter,
Read books.

If you have time to read,
Walk into mountain, desert and ocean.

If you have time to walk,
Sing songs and dance.

If you have time to dance,
Sit quietly, you happy, lucky idiot.

Sufi’s soul seeking serenity succeeds at the cost of the body which gets spifflicated by the spines of the social world.

We are but a speck in the Universe
Oh, but what a lucky speck to be...

Go in the direction of where your peace is coming from.

There comes a time for everybody when words and reasons can become such a great weariness.

The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean.

Noise is often a product of inner emptiness

Serenity is the guard that soothes your soul and keeps your mind at ease.

If you put a spoonful of salt
in a cup of water
it tastes very salty.
If you put a spoonful of salt
in a lake of fresh water
the taste is still pure and clear.

Peace comes when our hearts are
open like the sky,
vast as the ocean.

By your side I’m most quiet and most unquiet, most inhibited and most free.

Faith often comes from patience and remembering that sometimes patience is taking a deep breath and listening to that little voice on the inside saying, 'Don't worry, everything is going to be all right.

Cheerfulness keeps up a kind of daylight in the mind, and fills it with a steady and perpetual serenity.