tranquility

All beings exist and nothing elseAnd that__ why they__e called beings

There__ enough metaphysics in not thinking about anything.

It is the nature of physics to hear the loudest of mouths over the most comprehensive ones.

Believe what you believe and it will be, believe what others believe and they will consume you!

Living in harmony with one another brings inner tranquility

Happiness is the inner perception of calmness, tranquility and joy.

Every moment is precious and beautiful, filled with love, joy, peace, tranquility, and serenity.

I was born subject like others to errors and defects,But never to the error of wanting to understand too much,Never to the error of wanting to understand only with the intellect..Never to the defect of demanding of the WorldThat it be anything that__ not the World.

A row of trees far away, there on the hillside.But what is it, a row of trees? It__ just trees.Row and the plural trees aren__ things, they__e names.

And here lies the essential between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.

I__ in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren__, either.Nobody goes faster than the legs they have.If where I want to go is far away, I__ not there in an instant.(6/20/1919)

And here lies the essential difference between Stoicism and the modern-day 'cult of optimism.' For the Stoics, the ideal state of mind was tranquility, not the excitable cheer that positive thinkers usually seem to mean when they use the word, 'happiness.' And tranquility was to be achieved not by strenuously chasing after enjoyable experiences, but by cultivating a kind of calm indifference towards one's circumstances.

Also at times, on the surface of streams,Water?bubbles formAnd grow and burstAnd have no meaning at allExcept that they__e water?bubblesGrowing and bursting.

The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.But what does someone who hates and loves want with a sunset?

I think about this, not like someone thinking, but like someone breathing,And I look at flowers and I smile...I don__ know if they understand meOr if I understand them,But I know the truth is in them and in meAnd in our common divinityOf letting ourselves go and live on the EarthAnd carrying us in our arms through the contented SeasonsAnd letting the wind sing us to sleepAnd not have dreams in our sleep.

It__ stranger than every strangenessAnd the dreams of all the poetsAnd the thoughts of all the philosophers,That things are really what they seem to beAnd there__ nothing to understand.

Accept the universeAs the gods gave it to you.If the gods wanted to give you something elseThey__ have done it.If there are other matters and other worldsThere are.

During the flames of controversy, opinions, mass disputes, conflict, and world news, sometimes the most precious, refreshing, peaceful words to hear amidst all the chaos are simply and humbly 'I don't know.