Quotes About Stillness

where the off duty watch were sleeping, for one single moment you would have almost

Then there you lie like the one warm spark in the heart of an arctic crystal.

Now, in allusion to the white, silent stillness of death in this shark, and the mild deadliness of his habits, the French call him Requin.

All profound things and emotion of things are proceeded and attended by silence

O senhor realmente está querendo chamar a honra de inércia do sentimento?

an irresistible sleep fell deeply on his eyes, the sweetest, soundest oblivion, still as the sleep of death itself...

Thus his belief was that in a service where feeling could be restrained it ought to be restrained. The power of God was more likely to be known in a solemn stillness than amid noise and excitement. Silence and an expectant seriousness, born of a realisation of the nearness of God, were striking characteristics of the services at Sandfields.

Waiting. Simply one person doing nothing, over time, while another approached.

since coming home, her life had stood still and a fine day like this made her impatient, almost desperate.

And behind all this human movement the ocean bobbed and folded and slid, for nothing could keep still, not people, not water, not time.

We have many shelves of poetry at home, but still, it takes an effort to step out of the daily narrative of existence, draw that neglected cloak of stillness around you — and concentrate, if only for three or four minutes. Perhaps the greatest reading pleasure has an element of self-annihilation. To be so engrossed that you barely know you exist.

Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

In the stillness of your presence, you can feel your own formless and timeless reality as the unmanifested life that animates your physical form. You can then feel the same life deep within every other human and every other creature. You look beyond the veil of form and separation. This is the realization of oneness. This is love.

When you get into your car, shut the door and be there for just half a minute. Breathe, feel the energy inside your body, look around at the sky, the trees. The mind might tell you, 'I don't have time.' But that's the mind talking to you. Even the busiest person has time for 30 seconds of space.

Working on the Samurai sword is very different because your body position has to be very still. It's a much quieter was of fighting.

What is the use of good painting? We want a spell cast upon the optical part of our existence! We seldom really see the world, but when we do, we become as still as a picture.

The Divine flow that wants to move through me requires stillness.

You don't have to do anything to meditate. That's what makes it so difficult. Everybody wants to do something.

Stones make no splash on a frozen lake.

Speak truth, grow still, until the water is clear between us.

Peace reigned in silence, inside and out, in isolation and exhaustion.

The rush of the river was a voice, a presence. Water flowed indifferent to the heave and plunge of the sun, the shrouded moon and the slow spin of the stars. The sound reached them in a song without words, and all effort to grasp its meaning was hopeless, for, like the water itself, one could not grasp hold of sound. The flow was ceaseless and immeasurable and just as stillness did not in fact exist, so neither did true, absolute silence.

In a body with nothing to do, the mind will dance.

Death is stillness. And stillness does not belong among the living. A