Quotes About Stillness

To be truly present we have to stop our thinking. This is the secret of success.

Peace and calm are contagious.

In our sangha, we have a porch we call, Listening to the Rain Veranda. We made it specially for that purpose— so we could sit there and listen to the rain and not need to think about anything. Listening to the rain can help the mind come to stillness.

Don't chase after your thoughts as a shadow follows its object. Don't run after your thoughts. Find joy and peace in this very moment .

it is always possible to practice "I have arrived, I am home." I have run all my life; I am not going to run anymore; now I am determined to stop and really live my life. When

The first function of meditation — shamatha — is to stop.

It is only when we stop that we can encounter life.

It only takes one breath to return to your true home

Breathing in, I know I'm breathing in. Breathing out, I know I'm breathing out.

sheet of paper.

Practice the non-practice practice.

Tomar refugio en nuestra respiración consciente

thundering silence, because it's eloquent and powerful.

Breathing in, I know I am breathing in. Breathing out, I know I am breathing out.

Most of the time, our head is so full of thoughts that we have no space to listen to ourselves or anyone else.

The person who has nothing to do doesn't need to put on airs or leave any trace behind.

No domestic animal can be as still as a wild animal. The civilized people have lost the aptitude of stillness, and must take lessons in silence from the wild before they are accepted by it.

Either I've been missing something or nothing has been going on.

Imagine lying on ice and not being cold. We are all in corpse pose on the mats. What she really said was imagine a place of safety and peace.

The wisest man is the silent one. Examine his actions. Judge him by them.

Silence is the ultimate isolator.

expected—"  He inhaled a deep breath.  "We only

The boy could scarcely believe the size of the boulders, clustered under the enormous sun like dead red rockets awaiting repair, or the span of the sky, a cheerfully vacant blue dome, the desert's hallucinatory choreography achieved through stillness, brightness, darkness, distance -- and all of this before noon.

Silence does not come," said Tadis. "It is always there. You are simply aware of it.