Quotes About Stillness

The awesome silence of the place crept up on her. The spruce and pines, all still laden with snow, spread their limbs in a frozen ballet, breathing a ghostly incense from dark, arid chapels sheltered by their branches.

Jack had taught him this along with so much else. How to find peace. How to embody stillness. How to punch an eskrima dagger between the fourth and fifth ribs, angling up at the heart.

Travers was still stunned. She had never heard Wotan raise his voice, let alone yell. She didn't move a muscle.

Relaxation is… a state between waking and sleeping, where the body is completely still and the mind is allowed to flow freely from one thought to another, or alternately, a state in which the mind becomes inadvertently calm.

Meditation is… a state that can best be described as deep dreamless sleep while awake.

Concentration is the doorway through which the meditative state becomes available.

The moments of peace in between the mental practices are meditation.

In its purest form the term meditation means two things; (1) the state of meditation, which resembles deep dreamless sleep while awake, and, (2) the practices that lead to the state, usually a combination of relaxation and concentration techniques.

Si alguna vez te persiguen, hazte monte», le sugirió el Máquinas. «Hacerse monte»: meterse entre las ramas y quedarse inmóvil.

Los hámsteres corren cientos y cientos de metros en su rueda y no van a ningún lado. En cambio, mira a los leones, tumbados veintitrés horas al día, pero cuando se levantan cazan un búfalo»

Inmóvil, absorto en una contemplación muda, yo permanecía aún con los ojos fijos en la figura de aquella mujer, cuya especial belleza había herido mi imaginación de un modo tan extraordinario.

Watching, letting the growth of wisdom guide him into silence

Meditation has been defined as the cessation of active eternal thought.

Hold still we're going to do your portrait, so that you can begin looking like it right away.

Breathe Deep, Seek Peace.

If you'd had all the experiences I've had, you'd know that there are times in life when the most comfortable thing is to do nothing at all.

16th a day of no action

My heart is quite calm now. I will go back.

shuttered for the repose of Sunday

It's in the silence you feel you hear.

One day you'll have a quiet heart.

Sometimes if you listen, you can hear the earth stop, like it's waiting for you to catch up with it. Like it's your friend and it wants you to be at peace with it.

If this was what life was like without words - a life of doing, not just talking - I just might be willing to give them up forever.

I sat on the kitchen stool long enough