Quotes About Stillness

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 summed up in the words 'Be still'. What does stillness mean? It means destroy yourself. Because any form or shape is the cause for trouble. Give up the notion that 'I am so and so'. All that is required to realize the Self is to be still. What can be easier than that?

You can only stop the flow of thoughts by refusing to have any interest in it.

Let what comes come. Let what goes go. Find out what remains.

All that is required to realise the Self is to "Be Still.

Become conscious of being conscious. Say or think "I am", and add nothing to it. Be aware of the stillness that follows the "I am". Sense your presence, the naked unveiled, unclothed beingness. It is untouched by young or old, rich or poor, good or bad, or any other attributes. It is the spacious womb of all creation, all form.

Remain still, with the conviction that the Self shines as everything yet nothing, within, without, and everywhere.

When one adopts the practice (sadhana) by means of which one'smind, which is restless like the wind, is made still perpetually, then the purpose of taking birth as a human being is fulfilled. That is also the mark of a true scholar. 38. Do not practise meditation by fixing the mind on the six adhara chakras, the ones that are up or down or in the middle, or anywhere else. Giving up all such meditations, make the mind always devoid of any support (either inside or outside).

What the mind has to do is not to suggest a reply, but to remain quiet so that the true reply can arise.

Self is only Being – not this or that. It is Simple Being. BE, and that is the end of ignorance. Your duty is not to be this or that. I am that I am sums up the whole truth. The method is summed up in the words Be still. Be as you really are. Be yourself and nothing more. Remain aware of yourself and all else will be known

Meditation is death with breathing. And to remain without breathing is death.

When you suffer, Ananda had told him, When you rage. When you weep. When you crave. That is when you must still your mind.

there often comes a moment, in the heat of your desperation, when you call a "time-out." And you withdraw from the cyclone of illusion that swirls around you. And you find, after all that drama, that the stillness within is still there waiting. It never left. You did. And you scattered a mind-boggling trail of chaos behind you. So that, when all else fails—as it inevitably does—you would find your way home.

Concentration is the ability to think about absolutely nothing when it is absolutely necessary.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

There is in the soul a desire for not thinking. For being still. Coupled with this a desire to be strict, yes, and rigorous. But the soul is also a smooth son of a bitch, not always trustworthy. And I forgot that.

Silence is the sound of eternity.

I want to be calm.

I always get very calm with baseball.

I always try to stay quiet and calm.

I've always been calm, as long as I can remember.

I think having a child makes you calm down. You sit still.

I don't like to move the camera that much anyway.

I still like to get carried away - but passively.