Quotes About Stillness

He didn't want to be this thin man whose desires were barely covered by skin, standing absolutely still. But everytime he moved there was another place to go, and everytime sadness would arrive with its wonderful cocoon not even that would last.

I was calm, no one wants the kind of calm I was.

So I just live with my insomnia. I do crossword puzzles, or wander out to the music room and fool around on the piano, or read. Those late hours when the world is completely still, when the only sound is the rustle of the air in the vents and the wind visiting the trees outside, when the darkness is tucked tight around the house and you feel as life itself the movements of your own consciousness-these are wonderful hours to read. There is no interruption.

He didn't so much get there as just never leave.

I had to slow down. If I was going to listen to Venice properly I needed to hear the cadence of the place. I needed to stand still. <...> I thought of Whitman observing the parade of humanity with lewd concentration. Walt had a good ear. He loved opera and knew how to sit perfectly still.

Even when in the midst of disturbance, the stillness of the mind can offer sanctuary.

When you reach a calm and quiet meditative state, that is when you can hear the sound of silence.

You taught me about concentration. At first I thought that meant just being still, but I was to understand it meant much more. You meant to tell me to be where I was, not some place in the past or future. I worried too much about tomorrow.

How easy and delightful life might be if we could do this, if when we had attained the position we wished we might rest on our oars and watch the ripples on the stream of life.

Do you know its meaning, Caladan?' 'Pur Rakess Calas ne A'nom. Roughly, Strength in Standing Still.' 'A'nom', said the Son of Darkness, frowning. 'Perhaps,' the Azathanai said, 'as a babe, you were quick to stand.' 'And Rakess? Or Rake, as you would call me?' 'Only what I see in you, and what all others see in you. Strength.' 'I feel no such thing.' 'No one who is strong does.

For me, writing is a way of thinking. I write in a journal a lot. I'm a very impatient person, so writing and meditation allow me to slow down and watch my mind; they are containers that keep me in place, hold me still.

I do think the past changes at a slower rate. It sits a little more still for its portrait.

Not a living thing was to be seen and the cottages that sat huddled close to the ground remained fast shut; the smoke from the chimneys alone still gave a sign of life.

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

Ã…Å¡wiÄ…tecznÄ… póÅ'noc miÅ'o jest zatrzyma? nieco dÅ'u?ej

Nothing happened, and time stubbornly refused to pass.

Dead, blank, empty air surrounded me, like the moment after the fridge stops humming and you think the silence is a new sound.

y, si caminaba, caminaba sólo porque el alma, llena de intranquilidad, exige movimiento y no es capaz de permanecer en el mismo sitio, porque cuando no se mueve empieza a doler terriblemente.

The greatest adventure of our lives is the absence of adventure.

andava, e se andava era porque a alma, quando a inquietação a invade, exige movimento, não pode ficar no lugar, por quando fica imóvel a dor fica terrível

Soledad: dulce ausencia de miradas

If you don't know what to play, play nothing.

I love having the photograph in my hand. I love looking at the photograph. I love looking at a box of photographs. I just love the still photograph.

You can't realise love or yourself until you are still enough to drop down through the restlessness and frustrations into that deeper level of your being