Quotes About Stillness

I was not going to nod. Everything that had ever happened to me in my whole life was mixed into the cement that kept my head perfectly still

This was once an empty bowl that took hundreds of years to fill. But hard as I tried, I couldn't see them in my mind's eye. Not the mountain or the wasteland or the empty bowl. They simply were not there anymore. There was only the stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began.

stillness and silence of that water: what a mountain and a wasteland and an empty bowl turned into after the healing began.

He began to cross the street, thinking as he did that everyone was really very foolish to be screaming and yelling, to be afraid. After all, what could the dead do? They weren't moving, were not even speaking

Esse silêncio todo me atordoa Atordoado, eu permaneço atento

How beautiful it is to do nothing, and then to rest afterward.

The feeling of Sunday is the same everywhere, heavy, melancholy, standing still.

Calmness of mind is one of the beautiful jewels of wisdom.

It's peeking round the corner Playing hide and seek I see its icy fingers A frost'd rosy cheek — Days fall ever shorter Autumn's air is chilling Warmth no longer lingers Wild things are stilling

The wisest one-word sentence? Breathe.

Enlightenment is removing all distractions

Many people, doctors, and scientists agree. We are our thoughts. Consciousness is a just a sophisticated function of the brain. Question? In meditation, who is the witness? Who is sitting there in the stillness? Who is aware of the mind-body? Who is quietly watching the thoughts? Who is the observer? How can we be both the observer and the observed?

Presence calms the mind-body and soothes the heart

The secret to reality, is stillness of body and mind. Mental clarity is like a pond. Still the pond. Let everything settle. Vision then becomes crystal clear. When we still the body. When we still the mind. When we let all thoughts and emotions settle. When we remove all distractions. Only then, we clearly see reality as it is.

So, what do you do? - Nothing. - What kind of nothing? - The nothing kind of nothing.

He was standing

An enthusiastic reader of English poetry, Lincoln forgot or ignored Dryden's warning from "Astraea Redux": "An horrid stillness first invades the ear,/ And in that silence we the tempest fear.

Saying nothing was preferable to saying too much. Well versed in the Bible, Lincoln may also have remembered the lines from Isaiah: "You silence the uproar of foreigners; as heat is reduced by the shadow of a cloud, so the song of the ruthless is stilled."102

You are in no man's land. Which never moves, which never changes, which never grows older, but remains forever, icy and silent.

What is it that sometimes speaks in the soul so calmly, so clearly, that its earthly time is short? Is it the secret instinct of decaying nature, or the soul's impulsive throb, as immortality draws on? Be what it may, it rested in the heart of Eva, a calm, sweet, prophetic certainty that Heaven was near; calm as the light of sunset, sweet as the bright stillness of autumn, there her little heart reposed, only troubled by sorrow for those who loved her so dearly.

Still waters run deepest, they used to tell me.

It was completely still, not a sound within or outside. As if it was just the two of them, nothing more in the world, in this room alone.

Be still and breathe.

Stones don't walk.They're so perfect they've nowhere to go.