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The Buddha taught that we're not actually in control, which is a pretty scary idea. But when you let things be as…
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We are not human beings having a spiritual experience, we are spiritual beings having a human experience and Infinite love is the…
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Even if you don't feel appreciation, just look. Feel what you feel; take an interest and be curious.
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The mind is very wild. The human experience is full of unpredictability and paradox, joys and sorrows, successes and failures. We can't…
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When we start out on a spiritual path we often have ideals we think we're supposed to live up to. We feel…
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When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless.
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As long as we're caught up in always looking for certainty and happiness, rather than honoring the taste and smell and quality…
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When there's a disappointment, I don't know if it's the end of the story. It may just be the beginning of a…
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The future is completely open and we are writing it moment to moment.
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Come back to square one, just the minimum bare bones. Relaxing with the present moment, relaxing with hopelessness, relaxing with death, not…
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Impermanence is a principle of harmony. When we don't struggle against it, we are in harmony with reality.
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Somehow, in the process of trying to deny that things are always changing, we lose our sense of the sacredness of life.…
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Houston, Tranquillity Base here. The Eagle has landed.
— Neil Armstrong
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That perfect tranquillity of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.
— Aphra Behn
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The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving…
— Chanakya
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
— Marcus Tullius Cicero
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One way to recollect the mind easily in the time of prayer, and preserve it more in tranquillity, is not to let…
— Brother Lawrence
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The non-action of the wise man is not inaction. It is not studied. It is not shaken by anything. The sage is…
— Zhuangzi
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Meditation is not a matter of trying to achieve ecstasy, spiritual bliss, or tranquillity, nor is it attempting to become a better…
— Pema Chodron
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The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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Being perfectly well-dressed gives a feeling of tranquillity that religion is powerless to bestow.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most of what we say and do is not essential. If you can eliminate it, you'll have more time, and more tranquillity.…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If you make a habit of sincere prayer, your life will be very noticeably and profoundly altered. Prayer stamps with its indelible…
— Alexis Carrel
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I am essentially a painter of the kind of still life composition that communicates a sense of tranquillity and privacy, moods which…
— Giorgio Morandi
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