Kelsang Gyatso Quotes

Thy peace shall be in much patience.

Nothing is so bitter that a calm mind cannot find comfort in it.

You have to try to take what life throws at you with grace and equanimity.

I'm at peace.

If I'm going to die, the best way to prepare is to quiet my mind and open my heart. If I'm going to live, the best way to prepare for it is to quiet my mind and open my heart.

Patience is a mind that is able to accept fully and happily, whatever occurs. It is much more than just gritting our teeth and putting up with things. Being patient means to welcome wholeheartedly whatever arises, having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are.

Meditation is a silent heart, a peaceful mind which can make life more lovable, more livable.

A heart of peaceIs always the bestProblem-solver.

"What is the secret of your serenity?" Said the master: "Wholehearted cooperation with the inevitable."

This is the chief thing: be not perturbed, for all things are according to the nature of the universal.

If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of salt in a lake of fresh water the taste is still pure and clear. Peace comes when our hearts are open like the sky, vast as the ocean.

Treat gain and loss the same.' Don't be Intimidated. Don't make a Big Deal of anything - just accept things as they come to you.

Patience is being at peace with the process of life

We can stop thinking that good practice is when it’s smooth and calm, and bad practice is when it’s rough and dark. If we can hold it all in our hearts, then we can make a proper cup of tea.

Whether joy or sorrow, pain or pleasure; whatsoever may befall thee, accept it serenely with an unvanquished heart.

Let go of the battle. Breathe quietly and let it be. Let your body relax and your heart soften. Open to whatever you experience without fighting.

Peace isn’t an experience free of challenges, free of rough and smooth, it’s an experience that’s expansive enough to include all that arises without feeling threatened.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

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

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

Peace, truthfully, is how you feel inside.

You can be still and still moving. Content even in your discontent.

One must know the so-called 'lesson of a downpour.' A man, caught in a sudden rain en route, dashes along the road not to get wet or drenched. Once one takes it for granted that in rain he naturally gets wet, he can be in a tranquil frame of mind even when soaked to the skin. This lesson applies to everything.

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Let come what comes, let go what goes. See what remains.