Quotes About Stillness

God doesn't compete with the clamor and white noise of our busy lives. He beckons us to come before Him in silence. He wants our full, undivided attention. He wants us to cultivate space in our days to lay ourselves at His feet and breathe. He calls us to be still, or as another translation (NASB) says, "Cease striving.

Remain quiet. Don't feel you have to talk all the time. Go within and you will see the Loveliness behind all beauty.

Did you ever sit quietly with your back straight, not moving, just only cherishing the beauty of silence?

Space and stillness is the light that illuminates the beauty of our soul's being.

Intuitive listening requires us to still our minds until the beauty of things older than our minds can find us.

the beauty of doing nothing

When you get into your car, after you close the door, pause for a few seconds and observe the flow of your breath. Become aware of a silent but powerful sense of presence.

O Winter! bar thine adamantine doors: The north is thine; there hast thou build thy dark, Deep-founded habitation. Shake not thy roofs, Nor bend thy pillars with thine iron car.

Sitting meditation begins with good posture.

if there's never any pause—we will never be able to relax.

If we commit ourselves to staying right where we are, then our experience becomes very vivid. Things become very clear when there is nowhere to escape.

But in this meditation technique, we are with the out-breath; there's no particular instruction about what to do until the next out-breath.

refraining is very much the method of becoming a dharmic person. It's the quality of not grabbing for entertainment the minute we feel a slight edge of boredom coming on. It's the practice of not immediately filling up space just because there's a gap.

When one thought has ended and another has not begun, we can rest in that space.

Then I remembered: sitting still in the middle of a fire or a tornado or an earthquake or a tidal wave, sitting still. This provides the opportunity to experience once again the living quality of our life's energy—earth, air, fire, and water.

Hacer una pausa en lugar de llenar inmediatamente el espacio es una experiencia transformadora. Cuando esperamos, empezamos a conectar tanto con la inquietud fundamental como con la amplitud fundamental.

One thing that is very helpful is to cultivate an overall sense of relaxation while you are doing the meditation.

Silence is full of speech.

He had created a desert, and called it peace.

The sea looks the same after the boats are gone.

Para que algo suceda, algún suceso tiene que modificarse o algo que hasta el momento estaba inmóvil tiene que moverse.

Then, if you bring a certain kind of open, moment-to-moment, nonjudgmental awareness to what you're attending to, you'll begin to develop a more penetrative awareness that sees beyond the surface of what's going on in your field of awareness. This is mindfulness. Mindfulness makes it possible to see connections that may not have been visible before. But seeing these connections doesn't happen as a result of trying—it simply comes out of the stillness.

The great stillness in these landscapes that once made me restless seeps into me day by day, and with it the unreasonable feeling that I have found what I was searching for without ever having discovered what it was.

You could of heard a spider sip a breath.