Quotes About Stillness

move, hoping to save itself by its immobility.

I'm afraid you'll find it very quiet down here, Hastings." "My dear fellow, that's just what I want.

a trecut atata timp de cand nu i-a mai dat ascultare inimii ascultare inimii sale, ca aceasta a amutit.

There is a time for stillness, but who hasn't also wanted to scream with delight at being outdoors? To simply announce themselves and say, I'm here, I exist?

But I think it's the quiet way you settle into the crook of a tree trunk, the still and slowdown of your heart in a world that wants us to be quick and to move onto the next thing.

The goal of this meditation is beautiful silence, stillness, and clarity of mind.

All you need to do is follow the instructions: Sit down, shut up, watch, and don't get involved. Gradually, the meditation experience will open up all by itself.

The quieter you become the more happiness you have.

gripping.You can attain this degree of stillness only by letting go of everything in the entire universe except for this momentary experience of the breath happening silently.

If everyone is asleep in bed and it's dark and something happens, then that event is deemed to have taken place in The Middle Of The Night.

If you can't meditate in a boiler room, you can't meditate.

Muddy water is best cleared by leaving it alone.

Peace of mind for five minutes, that's what I crave.

Across the land, the semaphore towers stood deathly still.

What I really try to do is photograph people at rest, in a state of serenity.

Nothing in the world in perfect. Even a still photograph.

My inspiration has always been photography's ability to stop time and reveal what the naked eye cannot see.

There's very little about being in a functional-M.R.I. scanner that is natural: you are flat on your back, absolutely still, with your head immobilized by pillows and straps. The scanner makes a dreadful din, which headphones barely muffle.

If you wanted to watch me work, it would be totally boring. It would look like a Warhol film where nothing happens. I sit for 24 hours, then I scratch myself.

When you wash your hands, when you make a cup of coffee, when you're waiting for the elevator - instead of indulging in thinking, these are all opportunities for being there as a still, alert presence.

The moments that followed were full of interest. A stillness, a brooding, expectant stillness, fell upon the company—and it numbered a round dozen—about Lord Gervase's richly appointed board. In the soft candlelight the oval table

I feel as if I am the eye of my own storm, still, like the mermaid, at the center of my own chaos.

The real meaning of a poem is to stop time.

Meditation applies the brakes to the mind.