Quotes about Tranquility

Concentration is a cornerstone of mindfulness practice. Your mindfulness will only be as robust as the capacity of your mind to be calm and stable. Without calmness, the mirror of mindfulness will have an agitated and choppy surface and will not be able to reflect things with any accuracy.

The entirety of our mind, on the other hand, is by its very nature deep, vast, intrinsically still and quiet, like the depths of the ocean.

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

Diligence is a good thing, but taking things easy is much more - restful.

The Christian should always think: 'If peace and tranquility reign today, it will be different tomorrow. The devil can shoot a dart into my heart, or some other affliction can befall me. Therefore I must see to it that when sorrows appear, I am prepared to weather the storm and draw comfort from God's Word.

to live in good morals means calm and peace for the conscience, however much disquiet there may be in the flesh in public.

We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature--trees, flowers, grass--grows in silence see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence...we need silence to be able to touch souls.

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

There must be some sort of drugs. I'd like that. To stop me from feeling anything, or worrying, to let me sleep. Is that possible

Lord, bid war's trumpet cease; Fold the whole earth in peace.

Nothing is so aggravating than calmness.

The peace of God is not the peace of stoicism or passivity. It is the most intense activity.