Quotes About Stillness

Still waters run deep.

If you walk, just walk. If you sit, just sit. But whatever you do, don't wobble.

In much of your talking, thinking is half murdered.

All mankind's unhappiness derives from one thing: his inability to know how to remain in repose in one room.

Much poetry happens in the silence of 3 AM.

Try, above all things to be still and to contain yourself. You always want to rush into action. Realise that a certain kind of stillness is the most perfect form of action, like a seed can wait. One's action ought to come out of an achieved stillness: not be a mere rushing on.

?esto sjedim sate i sate i gledam u hladne jesenje boje. Mir sudbine koja se više ne da promijeniti ledi mi se na duši i licu. Sve je u meni mrtvo; tako mi je dobro. Ne dopire do mene zvuk, umro mi je o?inji vid. Sve je ostalo za velikom kapijom koja se zatvorila muklo za mnom. Izgubio sam sve i nisam više ?ovjek nego nemirna besana misao koja je potonula i pri?utala se na dubokom dnu, a nada mnom su kao neprozirne zelene mase voda, mir, daljina i zaborav

u krvi im je saznanje da se pravi život sastoji od samih zatišja i da bi ludo i uzaludno bilo mutiti ta retka zatišja, traže?i neki drugi, ?vrš?i i stalniji život koga nema.

U ?utanju je sigurnost.

Rhage exhaled slowly, air easing out of his nose. As he sank into his skin, he reveled in the perfection of peace. The heavenly silence. The great roaring absence.

The Brother was staring straight ahead and not blinking. "Have we stopped moving?" he said hoarsely.

Il silenzio e l'immobilità della morte erano un vuoto, un buco nero che attirava a sé tutto quello che gli stava vicino; e la spinta era così potente che le vite degli altri si interrompevano, momentaneamente paralizzate da quella forza tremenda e contagiosa.

Quit asking questions.

And it's finally only in the woods you get that nostalgia for cities at last, you dream of long gray journeys to cities where soft evenings'll unfold like Paris but never seeing how sickening it will be because of the primordial innocence of health and stillnes in the wilds- So I tell myself Be Wise.

One night I was meditating in such perfect stillness that two mosquitoes came and sat on each of my cheekbones and stayed there a long time without biting and then went away.

We stopped in the unimaginable softness (293).

Sunday morning,I empty of my little tricks to make life livable.

Snap your finger stop the world - rain falls harder

Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh.

No war or battle sound Was heard the world around.

Last year nothing happenedThe year before nothing happenedAnd the year before that nothinghappened.

It was just enough to sit there without words.

Be the silent watcher of your thoughts and behavior. You are beneath the thinker. You are the stillness beneath the mental noise. You are the love and joy beneath the pain.

Wisdom comes with the ability to be still. Just look and listen. No more is needed.