In seeking true peace some of us need to improve what has to be improved, confess what needs to be confessed, forgive what needs to be forgiven, and forget what should be be forgotten in order that serenity can come to us.
The very secret of life for mewas to maintain in the midst of rushing events an inner tranquility. I had picked a life that dealt with excitement, tragedy, mass calamities, human triumphs and suffering. To throw my whole self into recording and attempting to understand these things, I needed an inner serenity as a kind of balance.
All men who live with any degree of serenity live by some assurance of grace.
This pause in time, within time. . . When did I first experience the exquisite sense of surrender that is only possible with another person? The peace of mind one experiences on one's own, one's certainty of self in the serenity of solitude, are nothing in comparison to the release and openness and fluency one shares with another, in close companionship.
She knew that she could not have reached this white serenity except as the sum of all the colors, of all the violence she had known.
THE BODY SHOULD be triangular, the mind circular. The triangle represents the generation of energy and is the most stable physical posture. The circle symbolizes serenity and perfection, the source of unlimited techniques. The square stands for solidity, the basis of applied control.
We should cultivate the serenity, because in the substance of sincerity germinate the most beautiful flowers of the Spirit.
From serenity comes gentleness, comes lasting strength.
It may be that one of our great faults in prayer is that we talk too much and listen too little. When prayer is at its highest we wait in silence for God's voice to us; we linger in His presence for His peace and His power to flow over us and around us; we lean back in His everlasting arms and feel the serenity of perfect security in Him.
Learn silence. With the quiet serenity of a meditative mind, listen, absorb, transcribe, and transform.
Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.
The poet's body even is not fed like other men's, but he sometimes tastes the genuine nectar and ambrosia of the gods, and lives adivine life. By the healthful and invigorating thrills of inspiration his life is preserved to a serene old age.
Serenity is not just an escape, but a precursor to acceptance, courage, wisdom, and change.
The sole art that suits me is that which, rising from unrest, tends toward serenity.
The goal of a great democracy should be fulfillment, not ease. It should be adequacy, not serenity.
His gaze narrowed and she could see his hands twitching again like he’d love nothing more than to throttle her. She was beginning to think it was an affliction of his. Did he go around wanting to choke the life out of everyone or was she special in that regard? “I’m afraid ’tis an urge that is entirely original to you,” the laird barked. She clamped her mouth shut and closed her eyes. Mother Serenity had vowed one day Mairin would regret her propensity to blurt out her least little thought. Today just might be that day.
Suffering accepted and vanquished. . . . will give you a serenity which may well prove the most exquisite fruit of your life.
That subject matter has never left me. . . The more you're in the material world, the more there is a tendency for a search for serenity and a need to not be distracted by physical elements that are around you.
There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind.
This severe, ascetic music, calm and horizontal as the line of the ocean, monotonous by virtue of its serenity, anti-sensuous, and yet so intense in its contemplativeness that it verges sometimes on ecstasy.