Quotes About Stillness

Try to think not; and 'twill seem better.' 'I've

There was no speaking among the string of riders. The sharp cold, the fatigue of the journey, and a new sensation of a catching in the breath, partly as if they had just emerged from very clear crisp water, and partly as if they had been sobbing, kept them silent.

To stop the clock of busy existence at the hour when we were personally sequestered from it, to suppose mankind stricken motionless when we were brought to a stand-still, to be unable to measure the changes beyond our view by any larger standard than the shrunken one of our own uniform and contracted existence, is the infirmity of many invalids, and the mental unhealthiness of almost all recluses.

These include the need to express one's gifts and do meaningful work, the need to love and be loved, the need to be truly seen and heard, and to see and hear other people, the need for connection to nature, the need to play, explore, and have adventures, the need for emotional intimacy, the need to serve something larger than oneself, and the need sometimes to do absolutely nothing and just be.

Do not be afraid of the empty place. It is the source we must return to if we are to be free of the stories and habits that entrap us.

the rhythm of the phases of action and stillness has an intelligence of its own. If we tune in, we can hear that rhythm, and the organ of perception is the desire, the nudge of excitement or the feeling of flow, of rightness, of alignment. It is a feeling of being alive. To listen to that feeling and to trust it is a profound revolution indeed.

You may feel as though your life is in a vortex of trouble, but if you ask Him to show you how to be still before Him, He will; and in the calm of His presence, you will hear Him speak words of hope and encouragement.

The most profound need of your soul is to be still in the presence of God. Stop wrestling with your troubles or worrying about circumstances—the Lord Almighty is greater than all of them. So calm your soul and focus on His astounding wisdom, ability, and timing.

However, since Scripture teaches that all believers, young and old, should clearly be able to discern the voice of God, it's important for you to stop talking at times and just listen to Him. Grow still and quiet. Open His Word and learn to identify how He speaks. You will, eventually, recognize His voice and know exactly what to do.

Cease striving and know that I am God." PSALM 46:10 The most profound need of your soul is to be still in the presence of God. Stop wrestling with your troubles or worrying about circumstances—the Lord Almighty is greater than all of them. So calm your soul and focus on His astounding wisdom, ability, and timing.

Meditation is not a way of making your mind be quiet. It is a way of entering into the quiet that is already there — buried under the fifty thousand thoughts the average person thinks every day. And most of those thoughts are automatic mental responses we've developed from conditioning that fill us with anxiety and fear. They are nothing more than habits, and 99 percent of the thoughts you have in a day are the same ones you had the day before.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing....

Meditation is not only sitting still like a Buddha-figure, nor is it thinking about something, for the Upanishads say that the stars, the trees, the rivers, and the mountains are meditating — unconsciously. Conscious meditation is a knack, and as an exercise it is a way of learning that Enlightenment comes to pass in us as much when we are doing nothing to produce it as when we are in the midst of activity.

Don't just do something — sit there!

Night lies beside me Chaste and cold as a sharp sword. It and I alone.

Night — the quiet of solitude — the silence of loneliness

A poem should be motionless in time As the moon climbs.

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits.

Noons are sunny, warm, and still; A golden haze o'erhangs the hill; Amber sunshine 's on the floor Just within the open door; In September.

The Arctic expresses the sum total of all wisdom. Silence. Nothing but silence...

The orator... is... most eloquent when most silent.

When snow falls, nature listens.

Grabschrift auf einen Gehenkten Hier ruht er, wenn der Wind nicht weht!

O pirralho não se mexeu, e fabiano desejou matá-lo.