Quotes About Stillness

The weather was clear and still, and the countless stars opened above them, seeming like brilliant cold fruits that Maerad could simply pick out of the sky.

Have patience. Wait until the mud settles and the water is clear. Remain unmoving until right action arises by itself.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Be still and allow the mud to settle.

All this hurrying soon will be over. Only when we tarry do we touch the holy.

The greatest art is to sit, and wait, and let it come.

Art thou in the darkness? Mind it not, for if thou dost it will feed thee more. But stand still, and act not, and wait in patience, till light arises out of darkness and leads thee.

Patience is about understanding the right moment for action and the right moment for stillness.

Be still, and the world is bound to turn herself inside out to entertain you. Everywhere you look, joyful noise is clanging to drown out quiet desperation.

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.

Trying to understand is like straining through muddy water. Have the patience to wait! Be still and allow the mud to settle.

The slow rhythm of waiting.

If your heart has peace, nothing can disturb you.

The universe bends to a still mind, peace be still.

Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

Meditation stills the wandering mind and establishes us forever in a state of peace.

The end of art is peace.

Let my doing nothing when I have nothing to do, become untroubled in its depth of peace, like the evening in the seashore when the water is silent.

When someone at peace and free from hurry enters a room, that person has a calming effect on everyone present.

The words 'Here you can find perfect peace' can be written only over the gates of a cemetery.

Go Placidly, Amid the noise and Haste & Remember what peace there may be in silence.

Start each day in my peace and stillness, then you can go forth and face whatever the day may bring in perfect peace and joy.

There is no peace that cannot be found in the present moment.

Great peace is found in little busy-ness.

Let me not fuss and fret at my incompetence but be still and know that Thou art God.