Quotes About Stillness

I think prayerful meditation, being still in a space, being still with God, I don't do that enough. It's crazy, because when I do do it, I always walk away from it going, 'Why the hell am I not doing that more?'

My favorite form of meditation is breathwork - if you're crazy like me and find it hard to sit still, you should try it.

Loads of people talk about meditation and what it can do for your anxiety and I just really struggle to do traditional meditation. When they say, 'Lay still and empty your brain,' the minute I lay still, is the minute I think about everything that's going on.

When I first retired from the game, I had times in my life when the days just wouldn't move.

I am in no rush to get anywhere.

I paint. I still do it every day. I never neglected it. It's a gift. It's almost like religion for me. It's the quickest way for me to become still.

In the first instant of seeing, of knowing, Catell heard the terrible sounds of everything that breaks, bursts, and rips apart beyond repair, and the mad turning of all that moves, speeds, dashes about for a while, turning like a giant wheel, around, around. Then the wheel stopped.

It is in stillness, in the silence, that the word of God is to be heard.

Get in a comfortable position and still yourself. Recall you are in the presence of God, inviting the Holy Spirit to guide you as you review the events of your day. Walk through the events in your day (or yesterday's events if it is morning). Imagine yourself watching your day on a fast-forwarded DVD with Jesus. Let Jesus stop the DVD at any part of the day so you might reflect on it.

most of our human problems come because we don't know how to sit still in our room for an hour. — Leighton Ford

be still, and know that [he is] God" (Psalm 46:10)

Mantengan sus posiciones, que hoy mismo serán testigos de la salvación que el SEÑOR realizará en favor de ustedes. A esos egipcios que hoy ven, ¡jamás volverán a verlos! Ustedes quédense quietos, que el SEÑOR presentará batalla por ustedes.

Ihre Gedanken scheinen stillzustehen und mit ihnen die Zeit, und alles verbindet sich mit ihr, wird zu einem einzigen, wunderschönen Gefühl, das Licht, die Gerüche, die vereinzelten Geräusche, die die plötzliche Stille noch intensiver machen.

Mit den Wochen und Monaten wurde das Nachdenken weniger, und sie lernte, einfach nur da zu sein, in einem Zustand aufmerksamer Gleichgültigkeit.

May the stillness of a golf course remind us that often it takes less courage to stand up and speak than to sit down and listen.

For those who have not yet grasped the Way but are seeking the Way, I say: Emptiness, single-mindedness, and stillness—make these be your principles. If

Sometimes there is nothing quite

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

Amaba el tiempo hasta el punto de quedarse viéndolo pasar

The essential thing is to etch movements in the sky, movements so still they leave no trace. The essential thing is simplicity. / That is why the long path to perfection is horizontal.

Falling silent should be cultivated, the way the woods fall silent in the snow. Messages you can't send any other way can be heard.

Heaven is the place where you think of nowhere else.

many years ago, it was access to information and movement that seemed our greatest luxury; nowadays it's often freedom from information, the chance to sit still, that feels like the ultimate prize.

Now I see it's in the spaces where nothing is happening that one has to make a life.