Quotes About Stillness

And I was sitting on my verandah believing they were so remarkable and free, just because they never spoke a word and were always on the move. They hadn't a single word to say and nowhere to go...

It is still summer, but the summer is no longer alive. It has come to a standstill; nothing withers, and fall is not ready to begin. There are no stars yet, just darkness.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . ." "Dead mice?" Reynie suggested. "Perfect," said Kate with an approving nod. "As quiet as dead mice.

Dada is not modern at all, it is rather a return to a quasi-Buddhist religion of indifference. Dada puts an artificial sweetness onto things, a snow of butterflies coming out of a conjurer's skull. Dada is stillness and does not understand the passions.

All right, shutting up now,

What did I say about staying put?

Not thinking sounded pretty appealing right now.

for? There was a moment of silence down below, and

These empty days. How do you spend them?

Soon would come the night in which there was no more work – not the work of the hands, nor the work of the mind, nor the work of the heart.

Herein, I think, is the chief attraction of railway travel. The speed is so easy, and the train disturbs so little the scenes through which it takes us, that our heart becomes full of the placidity and stillness of the country; and while the body is being borne forward in the flying chain of carriages, the thoughts alight, as the humour moves them, at unfrequented stations

the susurrus slowly dying away to a vibrant silence.

Él era demasiado joven para saber el impudor que hay en la inmovilidad y el silencio.

It wasn't a dance, but the complete absence of noise and movement, the silence, that brought me in contact with myself.

every movement needs to pause at times

Empty your mind, stop thinking about anything, simply be.

and comforted by his greater wisdom he fell asleep again deeply in the darkness and the stillness.

It's a transformative experience to simply pause instead of immediately filling up the space. By waiting, we begin to connect with fundamental restlessness as well as fundamental spaciousness.

One of the main discoveries of meditation is seeing how we continually run away from the present moment, how we avoid being here just as we are.

The opposite of patience is aggression—the desire to jump and move, to push against our lives, to try to fill up space.

Well-being of mind is like a mountain lake without ripples. When the lake has no ripples, everything in the lake can be seen. When the water is all churned up, nothing can be seen. The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

En la meditación enseñamos a dejar que la piedra, la emoción, caiga sin producir ondas.

Suzuki Roshi gave the instructions, 'sit still. Don't anticipate...

Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape. During