Quotes About Stillness

There is nothing mind can do that cannot be better done in the mind's immobility and thought-free stillness.

When mind is still, then Truth gets her chance to be heard in the purity of the silence.

When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to be fully aware of the arrival and attack of thoughts. That is to say, we shall not allow any thought, divine or undivine, good or bad, to enter into our mind. Our mind should be absolutely silent. Then we have to go deep within; there we have to observe our real existence

Surrounded by nothingness you have to do nothing. You have to do nothing to be who you are. Nothing at all.

The silence gets us nowhere, nowhere way to fast

for all he himself wanted was repose, repose, repose.

Only when the mind is still, tranquil, not expecting or grasping or resisting a single thing, is it possible to see what is true. It is the truth that liberates, not your effort to be free.

Your duty is to be, and not to be this or that. I Am That I Am sums up the whole truth; the method is summarized in Be Still.

All action begins in rest... This is the ultimate truth.

Learn this from water: loud splashes the brook but the oceans depth are calm.

Can you be still and look inside?If so, then you know the truth is always available, and always responsive.

And, in order to possess the Truth, the plays of the lower nature must be stopped.

The words of truth are always paradoxical. To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.

We need to be able to set all of the voices aside, and then go to the still, small voice and say, "Show me the truth of this situation."

You will gain energy by meditating deeply, by speaking the truth, by learning to be still and by avoiding the crowd, most of the time, not all of the time.

The truth is known in silence. Be still and know.

Nothing increases happiness like quiet time. The truth is, the only moments that make you laugh or happy are seconds of stillness.

killed the engine

I dwelt alone In a world of moan And my soul was a stagnant tide

A man can see by starlight, if he takes the time.

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still. And it is still because death, when it comes, is always over. There's only terror in it if you fear it and ever since my first death, Wes' death, I have never feared it. It is simply the end of a story, and if you've loved the story then it is sad. And sometimes, as it was with Wes, it is an agony of sadness.

Death, I discovered that day, is not frightening, because it is utterly still.

You would stand in the room so still sometimes, as if the greatest betrayal of yourself would be to reveal one more inch of your character.

I hope whatever you're doing, / you're stopping now and then / and / not doing it at all.