Quotes About Stillness

Still yourself to steel yourself.

My favorite piece [piece of music] is the one we hear all the time if we are quiet.

How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank Here we will sit, and let the sounds of music Creep in our ears; soft stillness, and the night Become the touches of sweet harmony

In the din and tumult of the age, the still small voice of Jerusalem remains our only music.

What we have to get clear to kids is that when you offer your stillness and open yourself to the experience of music, it pays you back more than you give.

What happens when the music stops? Where does it go?

Be empty. Be still. Just watch everything come and go. This is the way of Nature.

In listening and stillness there is nobody who is still, and this stillness doesn't refer to any object; it is absolutely objectless; it is our real nature.

My heart is tuned to the quietness that the stillness of nature inspires.

A great silent space holds all of nature in its embrace. It also holds you.

Allow nature to teach you stillness.

You only need sit still long enough in some attractive spot in the woods that all its inhabitants may exhibit themselves to you by turns.

Whenever there is stillness there is the still small voice, God's speaking from the whirlwind, nature's old song, and dance.

Just be. Let your true nature emerge. Don't disturb your mind with seeking.

No thought, no action, no movement, total stillness: only thus can one manifest the true nature and law of things from within and unconsciously, and at last become one with heaven and earth.

To become aware of the subtlety of nature you need to be alert. The moment you become alert you become still... thinking subsides. That is actually a higher state of consciousness than thinking.

The nature of the mind is to jump all over the place, and it does, that's why meditation is so important.

You can certainly learn how to rest in the nature of the mind.

Me imperturbe, standing at ease in nature.

I closed my eyes and turned my face into the cold wind. When I felt it swept along my skin there was no past. No future. Just now.

There is nothing more beautiful than the silence of nature.

The world moves fast, and so do the bees. Can we find the stillness to see them?

Something inside me stops the moment I see a mighty mountain.

Home at that moment was a starless night, a steady wind, not a human to be seen.