Quotes About Stillness

Her gloom and loneliness forgotten as she found peace in the strength and stillness of her movement up the mixed terrain of the North Face.

Savasana—corpse pose—is the hardest pose of all. You would think, 'What could be hard about lying on the floor?' But the truth is that we, as humans, are not wired to be still and do nothing.

on noon at Friday

At times inactivity is preferable to mindless functioning.

concern. "I did not see any activity—no one

When you are driving, you're outside and inside, moving and completely still, all at the same time. I think that's something.

I thought of the stone angel. I pictured the snow falling over it, two classes of snow rising on the top of its wings. So silent, the both of them, the angel and the snow. I pretended I was the stone angel. I close my eyes and pretended as hard as I could, and after a while I was convinced I could feel wings sprouting from my shoulders. I wanted to look, to see my wings, but I was an angel stone, so I could not move.

Even just sitting here, like this, our bodies are churning, our minds are chattering. There's a whole commotion going on inside us.'...'sometimes they just get in the way. The earth is speaking to us, but we can't hear because of all the racket our senses are making. Sometimes we need to erase them, erase our sense. Then -- maybe -- the earth will touch us. The universe will speak. The stars will whisper.

It's really hard to do nothing totally.

Chance waited patiently until she stopped.

They must have stopped the world. They just must have.

She had preferred being on the plane, detached from the earth, the illusion of sitting still.

There are things that can only happen through you when you are still. Silence is often the most important work you can do.

The way to be nothing is to do nothing.

Thought will not work except in silence.

My mind feels like a beehive without the buzz.

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.

The days since then have been a timeless fuzz. I feel time pass but nothing actually seems to happen.

O Raghava, be outwardly active but inwardly inactive, outwardly a doer but inwardly a non-doer, and thus play your part in the world.

I'd like to turn the silence right up, but how do you do that?

Silence is the indispensable climate for all revelation; noise renders it absolutely impossible.

The air was still. It was that hour before evening when the sun sheds great horizontal beams just above the horizon and the air itself reveals levels of dust and insect life previously unthought of.

Worry is like a rocking chair. It will give you something to do, but it won't get you anywhere.

When in doubt," she said, "do nothing.