Lobsang Tenzin Quotes

Sustained and soothed By an unfaltering trust, approach thy grave, Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams.

When we have done our best, we should wait the result in peace.

Death smells like homemade apple sauce as it cooks on the stove. It is not the strangling sense of illness. It is not fear. It is freedom.

What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.

My heart is so peaceful.

It was a lovely feeling, dying. I can remember being in the hospital, all wired up to tubes and thinking, 'If only you'd take these tubes out, it feels so nice.' It felt so - it felt like being in a bath of velvet. It was such a nice feeling. Everything felt so soft and floppy, and I wanted to go.

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.

How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.

Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.

The important thing is to know how to take all things quietly.

Find patience in the breath of life.

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind.

So mightiest powers buy deepest calms are fed, And sleep, how oft, in things that gentlest be!

The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more!

I'll always be in some type of turmoil. So what I've tried to do is just surrender to that.

Maybe it's like becoming one with the cigar. You lose yourself in it; everything fades away: your worries, your problems, your thoughts. They fade into the smoke, and the cigar and you are at peace.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

Ah, sweet Content, where doth thine harbour hold.

When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you.

I'm ready to live in the present - not the past and not in the future - because in the present is where there's peace.

Once you let things go, they don't make you mad anymore.

When I'm at home with my family, I am at peace. I enjoy that the most.

The sober comfort, all the peace which springs from the large aggregate of little things.