Quotes About Stillness

The strangest thing is driving on smooth roads. No one passes and nothing moves.

She braked at Washington, watched the

Paul Richardson paused in his pacing around

There's a Navajo saying, "Even the still wind has a voice." In the quiet, confessing hotel room, I listen.

stopped before high

Teach us to care and not to care. Teach us to sit still.' The poem is called Ash Wednesday, by T. S. Eliot.

Love is stillness, peace of mind. The universe is Love.

We can actually accelerate the process through meditation, through the ability to find stillness through loving actions, through compassion and sharing, through understanding the nature of the creative process in the universe and having a sense of connection to it. So, that's conscious evolution.

Be still in peace and reach your highest peak.

The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by whilst stillness teaches her about inner strength.

Time stood still so she learnt to alter her focus.

Perhaps in the stillness of a summer night they will feel compelled to walk barefoot down a moonlit country road and search for the magic that connects all beings in the Circle of Life.

Something I like to do a lot is just sit by water when there's a current and just stare into the water. I don't fish, I don't hunt, I don't scuba, I don't spear, don't boat, don't play basketball or football - I excel at staring into space. I'm really good at that.

Either the car is stationary, or it's on the move.

Now fades the glimmering landscape on the sight,And all the air a solemn stillness holds,Save where the beetle wheels his droning flight,And drowsy tinklings lull the distant folds.

Silence can mock.

O God, You Who are the truth, make me one with You in love everlasting. I am often wearied by the many things I hear and read, but in You is all that I long for. Let the learned be still, let all creatures be silent before You; You alone speak to me.

Only catatonics and coma patients can persevere in a dignified withdrawal from life's rattle and hum.

[W]hen the faculties are empty, then your whole being listens.

can remember when a dog could go to sleep all day in the middle of Main Street and nothing come along to disturb him.

serenity (shamatha)

Silence is not something you do. Silence is something that comes to you and that Silence is a space of wonder.

All of us are feeling scattered and distracted as we try to keep up with an accelerating world. But nearly all of us have an answer in our hands, in simply choosing to do nothing and go nowhere for a while.

In Japan, I live in a little neighborhood in the middle of nowhere. I don't have a bicycle or a car or anything, so my only movement is within the boundaries of my feet. I feel there's a need for that kind of conscientious objection to the momentum of the world.