Gloria Naylor Quotes

A great sense of peace entered my body, and seemingly into every cell.

Zen is everywhere.... But for you, Zen is right here.

To be spiritual means to be solid, calm, and peaceful and to be able to look deeply inside and around us.

Peace is the deepest thing a human personality can know; it is almighty

Calmness is the living breath of God's immortality in you.

Stillness is the altar of spirit.

Calmness is always godlike.

Be calm. God awaits you at the door.

Finding Nirvana is like locating silence.

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

Existence itself does not feel horrible; it feels like an ecstasy, rather, which we have only to be still to experience.

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.

To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

I am permanently relaxed.

Oh, these vast, calm, measureless mountain days, days in whose light everything seems equally divine, opening a thousand windows to show us God.

When you quiet your mind, you can enter a world of clarity, peace and understanding.

I will let my body flow like water over the gentle cushions.

I think that one morning, the Papess woke in her tower, and her blankets were so warm, and the sun was so golden, she could not bear it. I think she woke, and dressed, and washed her face in cold water, and rubbed her shaven head. I think she walked among her sisters, and for the first time saw that they were so beautiful, and she loved them. I think she woke up one morning of all her mornings, and found that her heart was as white as a silkworm, and the sun was clear as glass on her brow, and she believed then that she could live, and hold peace in her hand like a pearl.

Through the portals of silence the healing sun of wisdom and peace will shine upon you.

Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God. God alone is sufficient.

Close the day with prayer so that you may have a peaceful night free from dreams and nightmares.

And that third dimension brings bliss. Bliss is without any opposite to it. It is serene, tranquil, cool. It is ecstasy without any excitement.

That blessed mood in which the burthen of the mystery, in which the heavy and the weary weight of all this unintelligible world is lightened.

You could say that spirituality is bliss, and bliss is physical happiness, emotional happiness, mental happiness, and spiritual happiness. And it's intense. It's an intense happiness. It brings you together with everything.