Quotes About Stillness

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It is not necessary that you leave the house. Remain at your table and listen. Do not even listen, only wait. Do not even wait, be wholly still and alone. The world will present itself to you for its unmasking, it can do no other, in ecstasy it will writhe at your feet. 

Der kom en vederkvægende ro, en dyb fred og fryd over mig, det var som når en feber ophører. Her, tænkte jeg, kan jeg blive.

The best way I have learned over the years to be still is to dive into the pages of my Bible. Immersing myself in God's Word provides protection. It snaps my heart back to attention and helps me to run to him for rescue rather than try to fix things on my own. Psalm

Why were there no cries of birds, no sounds of life, other than the incessant murmur of the brooding pines?

Doing nothing was much more productive than people thought; Jackson often had his most profound insights when he appeared to be entirely idle. He didn't get bored, he just went into a nothing kind of place.

Silence is the space where man wakes up.

Sometimes a man doesn't know what to do about things and sometimes it's best to lie very still and try not to think at all about anything.

I am so mad with love that mad men say to me - be still!

Most men are in a coma when they are at rest and mad when they act.

Doing nothing is sometimes one of the highest of the duties of man.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

I don't believe there's a man in Milton who knows how to sit still; and it is a great art.

A man were better relate himself to a statue or picture than to suffer his thoughts to pass in smother.

The educated man had throughout the ages found a way to covert passionate activity into silent and motionless pleasure. He can sit still in a room and not perish.

The funny thing about stopping is that as soon as you do it, here you are.

Here it is. My moment of zen.

He works at the kennel with Nana," Ben piped up. "And I think him and Mom are dating." At that, a stillness fell over a throng of admirers, punctuated by a few uncomfortable coughs.

If you suppress the exorbitant love of pleasure and money, idle curiosity, iniquitous pursuits and wanton mirth, what a stillness would there be in the greatest cities.

Three in the morning. Making yourself a cup of coffee in the dark, using a flashlight when you pour the boiling water.

Silence is become his mother tongue.

I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

Worrying is like a rocking chair, it gives you something to do, but it gets you nowhere.

You have to allow a certain amount of time in which you are doing nothing in order to have things occur to you, to let your mind think.